If you only know one language (like me) then you might think that the language tools in Office don’t matter – think again. Even us solo linguists sometimes need the deep language support in Office. Here’s a quick look at your dictionary and proofing tool options in Office. Proofing Tools
We’d like to tell you more about the English dictionary updates to Office 2013, but Microsoft has chosen secrecy. Is it secrecy, arrogance or apathy? Microsoft has started making more regular changes to the English dictionary. For some reason they’ve decided to do it ‘on the QT’ so few people
In previous Access Archon columns, I have discussed concatenation of dollar amounts (Access Archon #179), or children’s names and school subjects (Access Archon #230). In this article I discuss a more complex type of concatenation, where concatenation is done for sets of records filtered by three values. The Form The
Q: On one of my Access reports, strange light grey bands print here and there. What causes them, and how do I remove them? A: This is most likely because of the Access default setting for Alternate Back Color for group headers and footers in reports. Alternate row shading is
Microsoft has released a preview/beta version of Office 2016 to effectively all comers. Here’s how to get it. The Preview version comes with the 2016 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, OneNote and Publisher. Office 2016 requires Windows 7 or later. Similar memory and drive space requirements to Office
Barry G writes “Peter, nice work waking up Microsoft about the broken link in Outlook 2013. Now they should look at the Outlook 2010 link which isn’t broken but it’s quite useless”. Barry is right, the Outlook 2010 link to ‘View social network providers available online’ does no such thing.
It took many weeks and repeated public shaming but Microsoft has finally fixed the social connectors link in Outlook 2013. The ‘Connect to another social network’ link now works – well sort of. Microsoft’s problem, and the reason why the link went to a ‘Page not found’ error, was the
A reader asks how to install OneNote (available free from Microsoft) with the older versions of Office like Office 2003 or Office 2007. OneNote 2013 is available free from Microsoft as are versions for Mac, Apple and Android. Any attempt to mix versions of Office should begin with installing the
It’s an old scam which has resurfaced for the gullible. You get an email that promises vast wealth from Microsoft in some award scheme you’ve never heard of: “ Your address just won you $500,000 in the Microsoft Word awards.” “ Your address just won you Five hundred thousand pounds sterling in
As part of the 2015 BUILD conference, Microsoft announced a series of new tools for Office developers. They are new and updated API’s (Application Program Interface) which let developers work with software or a web service. For example a OneDrive or DropBox API lets a separate program directly save, read
Microsoft has announced that the concept of add-ins, now limited to Office for Windows, will soon be coming to Office for iPad. Just like in Office for Windows, Office for iPad will have a side pane that can add more to Excel. Here’s Microsoft’s example of a Dun and Bradstreet
There’s plenty of uncritical hype about the Outlook apps for Apple and Android devices that don’t mention the two big downsides of the Microsoft Outlook app. Single app = Single view In Outlook for Windows or Mac you can open up many different views. One each for the Inbox, Calendar
If there’s a common theme through Office Watch these days it’s the lack of disclosure by Microsoft about what they are doing with Office software. One example is the apparently silent update to the English language dictionary in Office. A few days ago we mentioned the addition to the English
A few weeks ago we told you and Microsoft about a broken web link from Outlook 2013. The link to add more social connectors to Outlook 2013 goes to a fancy ‘Page not found’ page that’s no help at all. This isn’t a mistake by Microsoft, they’ve had some time
Ellen F writes: ” Thanks for this: Outlook Categories – Why and How , which Microsoft of course doesn’t tell us about. However, I’m using Outlook Web Access and I can see how to apply categories to my emails but cannot figure out how to assign text labels to the
How can you send an Office document safely and securely to another person? A simple question with no simple answer. Who you are guarding against? A random snooper at the recipient’s end who accidentally finds the document, or someone targeting your or your data, such as a commercial rival,
Almost a year ago we sarcastically complained about the lack of words from ‘Game of Thrones’ in the Office dictionary. We didn’t expect Microsoft to do anything out it and, if they did, thought they’d tell customers. Slate magazine has noticed that many Westeros names now don’t get a red
Microsoft has now released a preview version of Microsoft Office for Android devices running Intel x86 processors. Until now, Office for Android has been restricted to ARM chip devices, which is the vast majority. But Intel x86 power some of the more powerful tablets which better suit Office. Android Lollipop
Microsoft has made yet another Office announcement … not a big announcement but an opportunity to explain the idea of Universal apps for Office and how they compare with traditional desktop apps. The Microsoft announcement was that a preview version of Office for Windows 10 for phones will be available
The days of carrying a separate presentation ‘clicker’ may be over as Microsoft brings it’s Office remote app to Android. Office Remote turns a smartphone into a controller for a PowerPoint presentation, Excel worksheets (including Slicers and PivotTables) plus Word documents. Image supplied by Microsoft. The smartphone connects to your
Microsoft has released an Android version of their Office Lens app. What is Office Lens? Office Lens main feature is an image to text conversion. You can take a photo of a document, receipt etc and it’ll convert into plain text (OCR) for use in OneNote, Word etc. It comes
In Outlook 2013 you may have noticed the ‘Link Contacts …’ item on each contact card. We’ll explain why it’s there and what it can do for you. Link Contacts is different from ‘Contact Linking’ that’s been available in many versions of Outlook. Contact Linking lets you connect a contact
Getting Outlook windows into the positions you want, and keeping them there, is one of those mysteries that Microsoft offers to us mere customers. We’ll try to explain what’s going on but, alas, can’t guarantee any solid answers. Most Outlook users have more than one window open at any time.
LiveLoop was an interesting product. You could share a PowerPoint presentation via the web to any computer or phone. But not anymore. We use the past tense because new customers aren’t being accepted and existing customers have until 24 April 2015 to retrieve any data from the system. There’s nothing
