Leaders and Librarians are among the new Office Watch reader contributions. Leaders and Librarians are among the new Office Watch reader contributions. They have have used our What they think of me / What they think I do PowerPoint template to make some funny images about their lives. Click on
Which versions Office can you use with Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Nerds and Geeks the world over, including us at Office Watch, will be poring over the Windows 8 Consumer Preview released today. But what about running Microsoft Office – can you use existing versions of Office on the Windows
Paying and saving money for your Office 365 service. When you’re getting near the end of your Office 365 trial and you’ve decided to continue with it, there comes the time to pay for Office 365. As usual with Microsoft, it helps to know some extra things before trying to
How to stop Office 365 sending emails with ‘on behalf of’ in the sender or FROM line. One major hassle with Office 365 is that messages sent using connected accounts don’t have a normal ‘FROM’ line. Instead they show the Office 365 internal domain ‘ on behalf of’ your connected
There is no catch-all email in Office 365 but aliases are buried in the configuration. Yet even then they aren’t properly implemented. The Office 365 implementation of email aliases is a typical Microsoft minimal effort. They’ve done enough so they can say Office 365 has ‘aliases’ but lacks the depth
Office-Watch.com readers use the ‘What People Think I do’ PowerPoint template. Three ladies have used our What they think of me / What they think I do PowerPoint template to make some funny images about their lives. Click on any image to see a full size version. Alice Goetschel has insight
Office for iPad rumors with less than convincing denials from Microsoft. The Daily has images that purport to be for a ‘Microsoft Office for iPad’. The images tell us nothing except that Office for iPad is near with icons for an iPad version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It’s hardly
How to copy an Outlook PST into Gmail or other online email storage. Leigh O. asks: “I cannot find any instructions on how to upload the .pst file into Gmail which is what I am using now.” You can’t upload a PST file to Gmail (or any other email service
Make your own ‘What they think of me’ in PowerPoint! What they think of me / What I really do is a popular set of photos and captions going around in 2012. It started with artist Garnet Hertz like this .. There are some more examples below. The ‘template’ provided by
A lover of the Amazon Kindle dumps the Kindle Touch in favour of a cheaper model. The Kindle Touch sounds like a great idea, getting rid of the buttons and having a touch screen display seems really cool. But then you actually get one and use it. Alas, the processor
A brief peek at Office 15 with hints of what’s to come. The preview video for Windows 8 on ARM devices (called WOA) has some views of the next version of Office – aka Office 15. It gives a small idea of what the next Office will look like on
Will Windows 8 really ‘include’ Office 15? Some commentators have jumped to the conclusion that Windows 8 on ARM (WOA) will come with Office 15 applications based on a blog post that said “WOA includes desktop versions of the new Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.”. We’ve been around Microsoft
Office 15 has a ‘Sign in’ option on the title bar. On the top left of Word 15, Excel 15 and Powerpoint 15 in the preview video is a new option ‘Sign In’. This suggests there’s to be even more obvious integrations between Office and online storage options like Sharepoint
A hint about new ‘Design’ features in Word 15 A close look at a Windows 8 preview video gives a clue about features in the next version of Word. There is a new tab called ‘Design’ which suggests there’s new Word features to make easier to create complex documents –
Office 365 mis-handles email read receipts and tracking with the Monrovia / Reykjavik time zone. There’s an ongoing complaint about Office 365’s response to email read receipts and other email tracking. When an Office 365 user asks for a read receipt, the receipt comes back with a time zone of
How to change the time zone setting in Outlook Web Apps and how it’s a workaround for an Outlook problem. Anyone who has Outlook Web Apps can use it to workaround a long-standing problem in Outlook – multiple time zone display. Outlook has always given limited time zone support. For
How to move existing Outlook items to an Office 365 or any other new email setup. Now that you have an Office 365 account working in Outlook you can copy your current Tasks, Contacts and Calendar from your current Outlook store into the Office 365 account. In short, open up
Copying or moving many items in Outlook isn’t easy – here’s how to avoid Outlook’s deficiencies. For as long as Outlook has existed, there have been problems when you copy or move many items around. Here are some suggestions from years of experience and frustration. When transferring many items, Outlook
If you can’t use Windows Remote Desktop there are other choices. Remote Desktop works well for compatible Windows computers on the same local network. Beyond that there are other choices, they usually don’t work as well as Remote Desktop but are still good. Live Mesh If you want to reach
Some important options for Windows Remote Desktop connections. Here’s a quick tour of some Remote Desktop options available when you click the Options button on bottom left of the opening dialog: General For the faster start of a remote connection, click ‘Allow me to save credentials’ and type a user
How to use a single copy of Outlook on multiple machines. There’s an easy way to run a single copy of Outlook and use it on multiple machines – Remote Desktop. We’ve heard from many Outlook users who move their PST data files between a laptop and desktop computers. We’re
Office 365 has some unusual limits on the number and size of messages you can send or receive. Office 365 has some restrictions on emails and how many you can send, but some are not calculated the usual way. Message Size The size of an email message is always calculated
How to get detailed SuperPAC donation and spending information into Excel. Today the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) is receiving and publishing details of the controversial SuperPAC’s showing who has donated and what they spent money on. It’s a good and timely example of how you can get information from
The Office 15 Technical Preview has begun. And so it begins …. Microsoft has started testing the next version of Office (called ‘Office 15’ for the moment) to a small group of people outside the company. They aren’t saying much else at this stage except the usual platitudes that have
