Here’s how to share Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel or PowerPoint) for viewing or editing via Dropbox. Document collaboration works a little differently in Dropbox compared to OneDrive. There are different methods and limitation for sharing on Dropbox. We’ve already shown how to install Dropbox, enabled the Microsoft Office Online
Dropbox Badge is their document collaboration option that provides Dropbox specific features inside Microsoft Office programs, It works with a refreshingly wide range of Office version. Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Windows and Macintosh. Office 2007 to 2016 for Windows. Office 2011 and 2016 for Mac. It only works
Just in time for Valentine’s Day <g>, Microsoft has released yet another set of patches for security holes in their products. There’s about 55 patches including a particularly nasty Outlook bug and problems with Microsoft new ‘safer’ Edge browser. Microsoft has or will push these fixes out through Windows/Microsoft update.
Based on past experience, Microsoft may offer a ‘free upgrade’ from Office 2016 to Office 2019. Here’s how you might be able to take advantage and get two Office licenses for two computers. An interesting idea from Office Watch regular ‘Ron S.’. All this makes some assumptions, so it’s NOT confirmed,
If you’re thinking of buying the upcoming Office 2019, here’s a possible money saving trick to consider. Another interesting idea from Office Watch regular ‘Ron S.’. Office 2019 is the next ‘perpetual licence’ fixed feature version of Microsoft Office. Microsoft will release it later this year. If you’re not interested in
A jury has found Corel guilty of six patent violations in it’s WordPerfect and QuattroPro products which have breached Microsoft Office related patents. Yes, WordPerfect and QuattroPro are still out there! We were surprised too. The patents relate to the Office interface like the ribbon. In WordPerfect, Corel even goes
There’s joy and celebrations in the streets of Maine as their Oxford Comma dispute is settled. Even Microsoft Word approves the new law! The missing comma only cost $5 million plus legal fees. A quick follow up to our 2017 story about a legal dispute around the lack of an
BitGlass and Cylance have found some new ransomware called Shurl0cker that managed to fool both Google and Microsoft’s scans to arrive on their customers cloud storage. According to the researchers: “Two well-known cloud platforms with built-in malware protection, Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365, failed to identify the ransomware. In
“Why Microsoft Office is a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush Saga” says one of our favorite podcasters, Tim Hartford. Is he right? Hartford isn’t any random blogger. He’s a respected writer with a regular column in The Economist, a series of wonderfully readable books and a great radio program/podcast,
A small detail in recent Office 2016 previews is a clue to future branding of Microsoft Office. The revised ‘splash’ screen has the line ‘Office 365’ which is new. A small detail but it seems to indicate Microsoft is moving towards separating the branding of the perpetual licence Office (the
Dropbox stores not just your current documents but past versions too. Let’s drill down and see how to dump your files in the Dropbox and what does Dropbox do to make life easy? I have created a folder in my Dropbox named “Projects”. It contains some of my work assignments
If you’re browsing your Dropbox account at their web site, select a document then look at the Open menu for options. Copy to Paper – Paper is Dropbox’s own online collaboration tool. Open in Word 2016 – the Dropbox site has detected the presence of Office 2016 on the computer.
Adding Dropbox to your Word Online, Excel Online or PowerPoint Online place list saves some extra steps. Then you can quickly open, create, modify and saves files to your Dropbox. To add Dropbox to Office Online: Go to OfficeOnline.com (https://www.office.com/), open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint Online. Click Add a place, under ‘Open
Dropbox has integration direct into Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows It’s best to install the Dropbox app (https://www.dropbox.com/install) on your devices. Of course, you can always access the Dropbox website https://www.dropbox.com from any laptop, computer or smartphones and tablets. Once Dropbox is installed on your desktop, you’ll notice a new
Microsoft has announced some administrative detail about the next ‘fixed’ version of Office for Windows; Office 2019. The news demonstrates, yet again, that Microsoft really doesn’t want anyone buying Office 2019. Redmond wants everyone paying annual Office fee instead. Office 2019 for Windows is the ‘perpetual’ or fixed version of
The latest Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneDrive apps for iPhone and iPad have some genuinely good and useful changes. iPad users are the main beneficiaries of the changes. If you push past the usual Redmond buzzwords ‘collaboration’, ‘co-authoring’, ‘create’, ‘experience’, ‘delight’, ‘productivity’, ‘from the ground up’ and the ever present
Microsoft has announced better Hindi, Bengali (Bangla) and Tamil online translation using AI enhancements in Microsoft Office, Bing and other online services. The company has dropped their latest buzzwords like “artificial intelligence” and “deep neural networks” but what does it really mean for Microsoft’s customers? Our headline translated into Hindi,
SoftMaker Office is moving into the Macintosh world with the public beta/preview of Office 2018 for Mac. Softmaker is a German based company that already makes Office suite software for Windows, Linux and Android. Source: Softmaker The Office for Mac suite contains a word processor, TextMaker 2018. The spreadsheet PlanMaker
After a seven month testing period, Microsoft Office desktop programs are available for Windows 10, especially Windows 10 S users via the Microsoft Store. Until now, the cheaper Windows 10 S machines could only run the ‘Mobile’ or UWP apps not the full-featured Office desktop programs. Now Word 2016, Excel
The passing of the author Ursula Le Guin, aged 88, is a great sadness. “Truth, is a matter of the imagination” – Genly Ai Her stories, novels and other writings were always thoughtful, well constructed, elegantly written and much loved by her many readers. Peter, our Editor in Chief recalls:
You might be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft Office isn’t so much software as a ‘trojan horse’ allowing hackers the opportunity to destroy, copy or ransom your valuable information. That’s overkill, of course, but each week there’s yet another new attack on millions of computers relying on Microsoft Office. If
Microsoft has previewed new Office features targeted at students and teaches, however many are good for the wider public too. For example, Dictation is coming to Word for Windows, Word Online, PowerPoint for Windows, Outlook Desktop, OneNote Windows 10, and OneNote Online with support for at least nine languages. Source:
Back in Excel 2013, Flash Fill was added, a nifty way to join or separate a string from other cells by example. If its seems to have disappeared from Excel 2016 for Windows, here’s how to get it back. In Excel 2013, Flash Fill worked automatically. Just typing the first
Back in October we told you interesting things were coming to Office 2016 for Mac, well now they’re here. Microsoft has pushed out a major update to Office 2016 for Mac with not just new features but significant changes ‘under the hood’. Version 16.9.0, build 18011602 has ‘new’ features which
