A close look at the new Formula Keyboard in Excel for iPad. One of the highlighted innovations in Excel for iPad is a dedicated Formula Keyboard which looks like this: It’s necessary because none of the supplied iPad virtual keyboards work well when you’re trying to enter Excel formula. Hunting
Tips for beating the rush to get Office for iPad. If you’re having trouble getting Office for iPad on launch day, join the loooong line. Apple is probably having a record or near-record day and it’s hard to get the new apps … but there are tricks available. Don’t try
We predict crowds at Microsoft Stores tomorrow. Microsoft Stores are offering a very limited number of people a years worth of Office 365. The first 50 people to arrive at a Microsoft Store on Friday 28th March 2014 with an iPad will get Office 365 (probably Home Premium) for a
Non-business users can edit Office documents on their iPhone or Android phone for free. On the same day as Office for iPad was released, Office Mobile for iPhone and Android was also updated. The usual unstated bug fixes but the major news is that Office Mobile for iPhone and Office Mobile
Also updated today … OneNote for iPad Amidst all the hype over Office for iPad there were some other announcements. OneNote for iPad was updated to version 2.2 promising “Beautifully redesigned for iOS 7” and “Photos of whiteboards and documents are now autocropped and enhanced”. See Also Office for
A preview of Office for iPad. The presentation is just over .. what do we know before looking at the Office for iPad apps ourselves? Office for iPad has Word, Excel and PowerPoint components (OneNote for iPad already exists). Shameless plug:Office for iPad: The Complete Guide is now available. Every tab,
Microsoft’s ‘Scroogled’ campaign gets partial endorsement. The British Advertising Standards Authority has agreed with Microsoft after a complaint about their ‘Scroogled’ campaign. ‘Scroogled’ is an attempt by Microsoft to attack Google over its targeted advertising which looks at Gmail messages and displays ads based on the keywords in the email.
by Helen Feddema I recently had occasion to set up a VM with 64-bit Windows 8.1 and 64-bit Office 2013, and I tested several of my add-ins in that environment, as well as Rick Fisher’s Find And Replace (the 64-bit version). I found that my Extras Plus add-in (an .mda
By Helen FeddemaAccess versions: 2007-2013Level: Intermediate The main menu of the sample database for Access Archon #212 (A New Style Main Menu) has selectors for filtering a report by CustomerID or OrderNo. But sometimes you might want to print a filtered report right from the current record of a form.
You can secure cloud documents with a password but Microsoft makes them hard to use. Password locking Office documents is one way to keep your OneDrive stored documents safe from prying eyes (e.g. hackers, Microsoft etc.). It’s a nice idea but Microsoft’s poor support for password protected documents makes that
If Microsoft can read Outlook.com email, they can read your Office documents too. The news that Microsoft read the email of a Hotmail/Outlook.com user without his knowledge raises the question of access to OneDrive data Microsoft Office and Windows 8 encourage people to save documents and pictures to Microsoft’s OneDrive
Which way is best? Share a document by email or cloud? There are two main ways to share a document that needs editing or proofreading. Send it via email and get a revised document back or post to a cloud service like OneDrive, Dropbox or SharePoint. But which is best?
Sharing a document with Office 2013 and OneDrive Sharing a document online for people to view and edit is pretty easy. Here’s how … Create your document in Office 2013 and save it to your OneDrive account. Tip: turn on Track Changes before uploading so you can see who edited
When Microsoft feels the need, they read cloud emails on Outlook.com (aka Hotmail) or other Microsoft 365 hosted email. Microsoft has been caught reading private data stored on their cloud servers and it’s all quite legal. In 2012 screenshots of the, then unreleased, Windows 8 had been leaked and Microsoft
Beware of ‘experts’ to toe the Microsoft party line on Office 365 vs. Office 2013. We continue to be amazed at some of the comparisons by ‘experts’ between Office 365 annual rental prices and buying Office 2013 as a one-off payment. Microsoft has deliberately made it hard to do ‘side-by-side’
Can friends share the cost of an Office 365 subscription/rental? The Office 365 Home Premium has 5 copies Office (Windows or Mac) that can be shared among different people. Could friends pool their money and share the cost of a single Home Premium subscription? Officially no … unless the friends
Where’s the value in Office 365 Personal? Microsoft has announced a new, lower price point for Office 365 subscriptions (rentals). Office 365 Personal will costs US$6.99 per month or US$69.99 a year (plus tax) at first. For that you get: Office for Windows or Office for Mac – one transferable
Does it matter if there’s an Office for iPad? Only if it’s a decent app that works properly. Microsoft is quietly delighted with all the coverage for a product they haven’t even admitted exists – Office for iPad. First there were stories about ‘internal divisions’ about whether to release Office
Why are some Word 2013 users not seeing ‘Welcome Back’ messages. As we’ve been mentioning, Word 2013 has a feature to put you back at the last place you were reading in a document … a little flag appears like this: That registry key will only store details for documents
How to block the ‘Welcome back’ message in Word 2013. Last week Office-Watch.com told you about how Word 2013 document details are saved without disclosure in the Windows Registry. Many readers asked how the feature can be turned off. A reasonable request in the circumstances but not according to Microsoft.
The more we dig, the more places we find trace of your Office document history. Recently we told you about some places where Word stores details of what documents you’ve opened, often much longer than you’d expect and with no direct way to remove these details. Yet another location is
How to convert a PDF into a Word document, even when Word 2013 can’t do it. Since Word 2013 can’t properly convert ‘image only’ PDF’s or you don’t have Word 2013 at all, how can you convert PDF’s? There are many options available including free and paid online services, OCR
Why won’t Word 2013 convert some PDF’s? Word 2013 lets you convert some PDF files into Word documents, but what about those it won’t convert to editable text? What’s going on? First a quick primer on two types of PDF. Image only Some PDFs are just pictures of pages. The
A free way to show Microsoft Office help in other languages Office Screentips is a way to show tooltips for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other programs. This free addon from Microsoft doesn’t interfere with how the programs work or the wording of the tabs and ribbons. Only the tooltips
