Getty images in presentations
Can you use the free Getty images in your PowerPoint presentations?Getty Images, has announced that 35 million of their images are now available free. Does that mean you can use them in your PowerPoint presentations or Word documents? Sadly, no Getty Images is now allowing free embedding to some images in their vast collection. That […]
Word 2013: document details not deleted from the registry
Your document actions are still stored even after you’ve told Office 2013 to remove them. Go to the File | Open pane in Word 2013, right-click and choose ‘Remove from List’ will delete any indication that a particular document/s had been opened. Right? Wrong – Office 2013 retains information about past documents that anyone can […]
More privacy exposure in Office 2013
Your document activity shows up in the registry in more places than expected. Jason Hale has done a nice job checking out where Office 2013 leaves footprints showing what documents you’ve worked on. Office programs like Word, Excel and PowerPoint have MRU – Most Recently Used – lists that let you re-open a recently accessed […]
How do they know ‘Where you left off’?
You’d be surprised how Office 2013 knows ‘Where you left off’. One of the nice little features in Office 2013 is the ‘Welcome Back .. Pick up where you left off’ tag that appears when you re-open a document. Click on that tag and you’ll move to the last place you were in the document. […]
Helvetica’s Godfather dies
Farewell, Mike Parker who brought Helvetica to the mainstream but alas not to Microsoft Windows or Office for Windows. Mike Parker isn’t a household name but the chances are the every household has an example of Helvetica, the font he helped make popular. When he worked for Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Mr Parker added many fonts, […]
Picture problems in Office
How to find your pictures to insert into an Office document. Even a simple thing like adding a picture to an Office document or email has subtleties and annoyances. When you choose Insert | Picture in recent versions of Office, it opens, by default, in the Picture Library. That seems sensible, at least to Microsoft. […]
Kardashian in Office 2013
Why is the word Kardashian in the Office 2013 dictionary? I could happily live without knowing anything about the various Kardashians. I’m informed they are ‘personalities’ of some sort and that I really don’t want to know anything more. But someone at Microsoft seems to think the Kardashians are more worthy because they’ve been added to […]
Word Count / Table cell bug in Word
Select the wrong part of a MS Word table and the word count is wrong Benjamin B. writes with an interesting bug in Word 2013 that’s apparently been in Word for a few versions without acknowledgement from Microsoft, let alone a fix. It involves tables and the word count feature. The same bug is in […]
Attack of the colons
2014 looks like the year of long movie titles with colons – here’s how to save yourself some typing. More and more movies are sequels and that means longer and longer movie titles. Most have colons because the studios don’t trust us to figure out that a movie is a sequel. Coming in 2014 we […]
Label printing in the 21st Century
Epson’s new label maker is a far cry from the old ‘Dymo’ labeler. We’d all but forgotten about label makers but the new Epson LW-600P made us think again. This is a laser printer for labels that’s battery powered with apps for both Android and iOS devices to link via Bluetooth, as well as the […]
CAPS Lock strike succeeds
An industrial dispute involving CAPS has ended. One of the most interesting industrial disputes of 2013 has now ended with a new agreement between staff and management of the Melbourne Fire Brigade in Australia. Being an emergency service, the administrative staff didn’t feel that a full ‘stop work’ strike was appropriate so they resorted to […]
Android banned word list in Word
Checking the Google ‘bad’ word list in Microsoft Word. The latest release of Google’s Android has a list of blocked words that won’t show up as suggested autocomplete as you type. Back in July 2013 we told you about the ‘kill list‘ of words on Apple iOS devices. It’s a list of words which iPhone […]
Can’t drag from IE11 in Windows 8.1
It seems you can’t drag content from IE11 in Windows 8.1 into Word. As we mentioned recently, you can drag content from a browser to Word. In fact you can drag content between many applications. David K. has noticed an interesting anomaly with Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11. You can’t drag content from an […]
Copying images from the web
How to copy an image from the web into an Office document. Getting an image from your web browser to a Word document is quite easy, though easier with some browsers than others. In your browser, right-click over the image you want and look at the options available. At the very least there’ll be an […]
Word needs a Latin dictionary
The Vatican’s latest mistake can be blamed on Microsoft … if you try hard enough. A good laugh can be had with this news from the Vatican: “A commemorative coins issued by the Vatican has been withdrawn because it spells the word ‘Jesus’ incorrectly”. You’d think that knowing how to spell the name of the […]
Come on Charlie – tell us what you really think
Charlie Stross unloads on Microsoft Word Author Charles Stross has dumped fully on Microsoft Word in a blog posting called ‘Why Microsoft Word must Die‘ and in case the title isn’t sufficiently clear he opens with: “I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery […]
