Microsoft has released v2 of the OneNote Clipper, a browser add-in to copy content from a web page to OneNote. It has some nice new features but still has a fundamental flaw or at least a strange behavior. New in version 2 There’s a different interface with more options. The
If you think that civilization is coming to an end, here’s confirmation. There’s now a book of Word porn, strictly speaking Clippy Porn. Now available on Kindle is Conquered by Clippy: An Erotic Short Story It’s a 4,000 word short story featuring a giant living paperclip. As the blurb explains
There was not surprising news this week that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and contractors are hard at work trying to hack into iPhones and iPads. What didn’t get as much attention was the same hackers at work on Windows. It’s no surprise that security agencies are working on
Microsoft has released their April pile of fixes for the never-ending list of security holes in their products, mostly Windows and Office. Some are interesting, but not for good reasons. Thought: with all the hype and promises for Windows 10, there’s no mention of improved security. It would be nice
Managing your Deleted Items folder You might think that when you delete something in Outlook, it’s gone. Nope, Outlook has a safety net, just like Windows does for files. In fact Outlook can have multiple safety nets to let you recover accidentally deleted files. That’s a good thing because sometimes
The big political story in the USA is that Hilary Clinton used a private email service while Secretary of State instead of the State Departments own email system. We don’t care much about politics, as Office geeks we’re interested in what Hilary Clinton’s staff used for her email hosting. She
Press Release: 4 March 2015 VoIPstudio is releasing a Softphone that integrates with Microsoft’s Outlook email client. This new service can be used as a direct replacement for Microsoft’s Lync client and allows users to integrate contacts and make calls straight from the Outlook interface. Due to the high demand
All over the world, governments are intruding into our private lives in the name of safety and anti-terrorism. They talk about ‘metadata’ to make out that the information they are collecting isn’t that important. This ‘metadata’ will be collected, held for a long time and accessible by government agencies without
Microsoft has changed their Exchange Server hosting (under the Office 365 banner) to allow for longer holding of Deleted Items up to ‘forever’. Until now, Office 365 hosting had a fixed 30 days for Deleted Items retention. Any item in the Deleted Items folder older than 30 days was automatically
Back in 2014, Microsoft made Office 365, including Office software, available to many US students. The same program is now available globally. If the school buys Office software for their faculty and staff, the students get free Office 365 accounts. The program now covers, among many, 1.1 million students in
Q: Don Ruppel writes: “I am using Access 2010 to track my collection and have photos attached. I want to filter and list any records that do not have an attachment (photo) so I know which items that need to take photos of. Every time I try to filter the
Q: Jane writes that when she makes a new form by clicking the Form button in the Create tab of the Ribbon, all the controls are the same width, and she can’t resize them individually, as in older versions of Access. A: This is a “feature” of recent versions of
Access Archon Column #237 By Helen Feddema Access versions: 2007-2013 Level: Intermediate The Problem Back in Access 2003 and Windows XP, it was easy to make a shortcut to open a specific Access database – just right-drag the database from an Explorer pane to the Quick Launch area of the
We’ve used Lenovo laptops for a long time, back when they were IBM computers. They are usually good machines with excellent keyboards, pricey but generally reliable. So it’s with great dismay they we’ve been reading about Lenovo and the ‘Superfish’ software that was installed on some of their computers in
We’ve been looking closely at the Outlook app for iOS and Android as well as online reviews and the many comments from Office-Watch.com readers. We’ve come to the conclusion that there are two different apps. The preview versions that the public are trying and there’s other, quite different, apps which
Rene Winkelmeyer was the first to detail the worrying and undocumented way the Outlook apps store your email account logins. Normal programs and apps keep your login details (server, name, password etc) encrypted on the computer or device. When needed the name/password is sent direct to the mail host to
I’m not sure how something can get better than free, but a marketing genius at Microsoft has done it. OneNote for Windows has been available free to all comers since 2014 but with some features blocked and only accessible in the paid versions. Now more of the features have been
We love words, especially old words that have been largely forgotten. This Valentine’s Day there’s a short item in The Independent UK about 10 old words that modern romantics might like to revive. We tried them out in Office 2013 to see if the in-built dictionary could cope. No real surprise that
Would you like a peek at the next version of Microsoft Office for Windows? Well you can, if you’re willing to take a risk and play by Microsoft’s rules. Office 2016 (also called Office 365 Desktop) Technical Preview is now available for download. Details on how to do that are
Press Release: The Innovative New Add-In Allows People to Securely Post Letters Directly from Microsoft Word Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) February 10, 2015 SnappyStamp, a Microsoft Word add-in that allows people to quickly, easily and securely post letters to anywhere in the world, is now officially launched and available. As Greg
A substantially improved and upgraded Organizing Outlook Email ebook is available right now. The 3rd edition goes deep into Outlook 2013/2010 & 2007 with new ways to get the most out of your email. The Third Edition is totally updated and revised to cover Outlook 2013/2010 & 2007 email management in detail. There are all sorts
A few questions from readers about their ISP (Internet Service Provider) based email service that comes with their internet access. We’ll try to explain what normally happens. Keep in mind that each ISP has it’s own rules so you should check with them. Michael B writes: “Once I switch to RoadRunner,
The Outlook app for iOS and Android is a ‘preview’ release, meaning it’s not a fully tested release, ready for the general public. But some people at Microsoft don’t realize that and are promoting it as a fully public release. The app itself is called ‘Microsoft Outlook Preview’ and the
If you thought email scams were all about Nigerian princes and unknown lottery wins, think again. An Omaha man has lost his job after being tricked into sending $17 million of company funds to scammers. The tricksters sent emails that appeared to come from the CEO and its auditors, but
