Office lets you recover documents lost but it can be hard to choose the right one. For many versions of Office you’ve been able to recover open documents that haven’t been saved before a system crash, but the details aren’t obvious. If Windows or Office unexpectedly stops, there’s a chance
Office 2013 and Windows 8 is a bad combo if you want subtle mail alerts. Anyone trying Outlook 2013 Preview on Windows 8 is in for an unpleasant surprise – mail Desktop Alerts have changed and not for the better. In Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 there are mail desktop
A temporary copy of Office 2013 on a computer. The concept of ‘Office on Demand’ started with Office 2010 (the Starter edition and Office to Go) but is being expanded in Office 2013 for subscription customers. Office on Demand uses ‘Click to Run’ technology to install Office directly from the
Sanebox is an interesting twist on email organizing. Sanebox is a new service receiving acclaim for the novel way to arrange your email. Usually, email organizing is done when messages arrive. The incoming message is moved to a folder, tagged, changed priority etc according to preset rules. Sanebox is a
Microsoft opens an Office store for Office 2013 For a peek into the future, check out the Office Store now in beta. Office 2013 has a new form of plug-in based on HTML5 and web technologies with the Office Store intended as a ‘one stop’ place to get these addons.
To search PDF’s on a 64-bit machine you need a separate download. The Adobe PDF Reader software isn’t enough on 64-bit Windows computers. If you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows (any release) you’ll probably find that Windows Search doesn’t find text inside PDF’s. Only file names are searched but
An embarrassing security lapse by Microsoft. ArsTechnica is reporting an astonishing security lapse by Microsoft in both Windows 7 and Windows 8 which exposes your password hint with a little code. The password hint is the additional line of text you can type in to remind you of your real
An interestingly cheap cloud backup option from Amazon Amazon has a new cloud storage option – slow but really cheap. Perfect for backups. Called Glacier, with good reason, because it can take 3-5 hours before your cloud stored data is available for download. On the upside, the prices are much
Changes to the popular TechNet program limit its usefulness. Microsoft TechNet program has been recently changed to limit the use of software and allow reductions in what you get, even after purchase. TechNet has been a popular program for IT professionals, developers and testers for many years. For a relatively
Get the full medal tally into Excel for your own analysis. We close our Olympics coverage (sorry “Quadrennial Corporate-sponsored Rings-based Sporting Event”) with links to some looks at the medal tally. The Guardian continued their data analysis of the medal wins. In the end they produced a simple interactive which
If you don’t like outlook.com you can return to Hotmail – for now. If you’ve tried Outlook.com mail service and don’t like it, you can switch back to the Hotmail interface easily. On the top right of the Outlook.com page is a ‘gear’ icon, click on that and then choose
How Microsoft shoots itself in the Windows Phone Office-Watch.com has a Windows Phone and we’d like to write about the Office related features for our readers. Sadly there’s a problem with the device so that will have to wait. In the meantime here are some thoughts on how Microsoft shoots
The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. In the promotional material for the new service it’s called Outlook.com which
How to connect Outlook software to Outlook.com With the announcement of Outlook.com as a replacement for Hotmail there was one glaring omission – how to sync with Outlook software. Now we know why – the existing Hotmail connector to Outlook software does work but hasn’t been updated yet. So the
Some alternative views of the Olympic medal count and how to Thanks to all the readers who dropped us a note about our article on the London 2012 Olympics calendar and how to overlay it in Outlook. While many are using it to schedule their TV viewing, others use
How to copy a table from Wikipedia to Word or Excel. Standard web tables can be copied from a web page to Word or Excel, but not many tables on Wikipedia pages. Office-Watch.com shows you how to do it. Even if you’re not copying from Wikipedia, we’ll show you some
The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion. The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion. It’s called Outlook.com and is available as a preview now. Go to Outlook.com and sign in with your Microsoft, Windows Live or
A look at the Office suite numbers in the MSFT annual report. Having trouble sleeping? Head over to the US Securities and Exchange Commission web site for the latest Annual Report from Microsoft. 95 pages of tedium guaranteed to have your eyelids slamming shut. Among the dry numbers and drier
How to schedule your Olympic viewing with Outlook. At the risk of attracting the attention of the, now infamous, Olympic Branding Police … we’d like to give you some Olympic related tips for Outlook and Office users. With so many events being broadcast live, scheduling your time isn’t going to
A fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks, Organizing Outlook Email, for Outlook 2010 We’re delighted to announce a fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks Organizing Outlook Email for Outlook 2010 We’ll take you through all the email management features available
A different view of prime numbers and clever web programming. Jason Davies has created an amazing web page that shows patterns for prime and non-prime numbers. Go to http://www.jasondavies.com/primos/ and move your mouse pointer along the number line to see the periodic curves change for each integer. For the number 56
What you need to know about Office 2013 and getting the preview. Office 2013 is now available for public preview. As you’d expect Office-Watch.com has been and will be looking at Office 2013 in detail. We don’t rely on the glib promises and cozy half-truths sent out by Microsoft. Instead
Outlook 2013 takes a backward step in readability. Grab a ruler and it’s easy to see how Microsoft has wasted screen space with Outlook 2013. The message view with preview turned off uses about 20% more vertical space than Outlook 2007 – That means less messages visible on the screen
Unread messages view returns in Outlook 2013. Viewing ‘Unread mails only’ has returned as a classic ‘flip flop’ from Microsoft. Outlook 2010 dropped the ‘Unread messages’ view because Microsoft assured us their testing showed that people didn’t want or use that feature. Really? People didn’t want to see just unread
