Over the years, Outlook has widened its search scope beyond just the current mailbox. On the search line, above a messages list, there’s a pull down list of options. For mail folders, these are your options. Current Folder – whatever folder you’re looking at Subfolders – the current folder and
If you’re trying to decide between Evernote and OneNote, Melanie Pinola has a useful summary at Lifehacker. We agree with her summary of the two: ” Evernote is better for collecting and organizing information and mobile note-taking.” and ” Evernote is more like a filing cabinet, with a simpler notes interface
Introduction In my Working with Word ebook (the 4th edition is available now), there is code that lists (among other things) the document properties in a Word document. This is useful information, but sometimes you need to know which of the doc properties have actually been used; that is what
Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet to the note taking rival Evernote with the release of a converter to move your data into Microsoft OneNote. Evernote is a very well regarded note taking product. It has very good apps for Apple, Android and Windows devices as well as web browser.
Microsoft has released some changes to the Bing image search feature in Office 2016 and Office 2013. When you choose Insert | Online Pictures then the Bing image search. The default search is for images tagged as using the Creative Commons licence – ‘CC Only’. Use the selector on right
An interesting read from Tony Redmond about the impact of Outlook/Exchange Server’s storage limitations. He has a great description of the two main types of Outlook user and how they organize their email – Filers and Pilers. Filers – file incoming email into other Outlook folders. Pilers – leave incoming
A sad farewell to Ray Tomlinson, the man who created email. Mr Tomlinson and the other developers of early Internet technologies did amazing work. They designed robust technologies that are still in use today and have scaled up to vastly greater sizes than anything originally conceived. We love the story
Spammers have been trying the false invoice scam for many years but now there’s a more targeted and dangerous version. A couple in the UK lost over US$35,000 when they were tricked into paying a bill they did owe, but to a different bank account. Their email account had been
Microsoft has released yet another buggy patch for Office. This time Outlook 2016 is affected and the commonly used POP mail service. To add to the woes, Microsoft’s suggested workaround can cause a lot of confusion for customers. So we have some alternatives to consider. The bug is in Outlook
We’ve had Office ‘Click to Run’ (CTR) installations for a few years now and there’s obvious problems with the technology. Obvious to anyone except Microsoft which has its usual ‘head in the sand’ approach to customers’ woes. There’s a lack of options and notifications to Microsoft Office customers which makes
Microsoft has sent an email to Office 365 customers setting out their downsizing plan for OneDrive. Back in November ’15, Microsoft announced that the unlimited OneDrive allowance was being reduced to 1 Terabyte because, shock horror, a small group of people were storing a lot of files on OneDrive. The
The latest ransomware going the rounds is ‘Locky’ and arrives via email as a Word document. Currently the email arrives with a subject like: ATTN: Invoice K-56463223 The message: Please see the attached invoice (Microsoft Word Document) and remit payment according to the terms listed at the bottom of the
Microsoft will be releasing what’s called ‘Outlook.com Premium’ – a paid upgrade to the free Outlook.com mail hosting but also free to Office 365 ‘subscribers’. Serial Microsoft leaker ‘Walking Cat’ published a shot of the pilot for Outlook.com Premium which gives a peek into what we can expect. Personalized Addresses
Centennial Office Test a Windows 10 app is available on the Windows Store. It doesn’t do much now but foretells something interesting in the Office world. The link for more information on the publisher ‘Project Centennial’ is totally blank but its actually Microsoft itself. ‘Project Centennial’ is makes ‘bridges’
There are a series of keyboard shortcuts for quickly switching between Outlook views: Mail Ctrl + 1 Calendar Ctrl + 2 Contacts Ctrl + 3 Tasks Ctrl + 4 Notes Ctrl + 5 Folder List Ctrl + 6 Shortcuts Ctrl + 7 Either the
Outlook has a lot of different aspects; email, calendar, contacts etc and we see many people switching between them, waiting for different views to load …. and they don’t have to. If you click on a folder or navigation icon the window will switch to that view, often with a
The default Outlook Navigation pane isn’t meant for you, it’s intended for absolute beginners to the program and to reduce the number of support calls. Once you’ve started to use Outlook, it’s time to change the way it looks to suit you, not some corporate agenda from Microsoft. Take off
This is now beyond a joke. Yet another month with a broken patch for Microsoft Office. The February 2016 broken patch is known as KB3114717, after the Knowledge Base article. It applies only to Office 2013 installed via MSI (ie DVD or direct download). It also applies to Office RT for
Facebook has an instant messaging/chat feature that can be used to transfer Office documents. It’s worth keeping in mind if you want to share a document with a Facebook friend. Messenger is different from Facebook’s WhatsApp which only has limited file transfer options. Rather than use the cluttered Facebook.com pages,
Effective Outlook Calendars 2nd edition has been updated for Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010 in the one book. Greatly expanded and revised version from the popular 1st edition. An extensive guide to Outlook Calendar, appointments, events and reminders. How to sync a one or more calendars on many computers,
Apple is getting a lot of good publicity for their resistance to a US court order to unlock an iPhone. The US government could have chosen another example of an iPhone they want unlocked. The choice of a terrorism related case is no accident. It’s possible that the iPhone 5c
Among the many Table of Contents questions we’ve received were very good ones about making a ‘Quick Reference’ guide to a Microsoft Word long document. Usually this is the main headings plus some text that summarizes that chapter/section. It’s possible to make a special summary in Word that updates automatically.
Many useful changes in Excel 2016 for Windows in the January 2016 update. We have extensive coverage of the overall changes that apply to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Check out separate articles on the specific new features in Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Like to know more? Office 2016: the real
There’s really just one specific change in Outlook 2016 for Windows that we can find – not the three boasted by Microsoft. One ‘improvement’ is just fixing a feature that was crippled with the first releases of Outlook 2016. Another is vaguely described and we can’t find it in Outlook.
