Why would Microsoft make Office for iPad? It’s being reported that Microsoft is working on an iPad version of Microsoft Office – This is hardly surprising, the iPad’s have become a very popular platform. By contrast, Windows Tablets have hardly taken the world by storm. For all the chest-thumping from
Excel’s method of converting measurements is good but could be so much better. Once you start looking into the CONVERT function in Excel, you realize that it’s really an incomplete function. Excel has been around for a long time and yet this important feature has lapses that would make it
A personal selection of favorite Android apps. Everyone has a recommended selection of apps for their smartphone and Office-Watch.com is no different. We’ve been using Android devices for some time and these apps are always loaded. Most of them work both online and offline. It annoys us when developers assume
A clever, compact alternative to regular business cards. We’ve become quite attached to Squiz Cards, a small and clever alternative to standard business cards. Mary-Jane Almer co-author of some Office Watch ebooks put us on to Squiz cards. They are 2 2/8” x 1 2/8” (53mm x 28mm), less than
There is a possibility of getting a replacement Product Key from Microsoft. A Knowledge Base article from Microsoft suggests they can help recover a lost Office Product Key. If you’re trying to install Microsoft Office, perhaps on a replacement computer, you need installation disk and also the Product Key. That’s
Why can’t you get the right key from a pre-installed copy of Office? Buying a pre-installed copy of Microsoft Office has some pitfalls and one of them is trouble recovering the Product Key. If you’ve lost your copy of the Office Product Key (essential for installing Office) then usually you
Finding a true Print Preview in Word 2010. Hank S. writes: “Is there any way to remove the approximately left half of the screen (File/Options display) so a print preview may be seen at full size? The new print pane is really handy, but there are times when I want
When you buy Office there are several languages you can use with your documents. Office has two levels of language support. There’s the language used on the menus, ribbon and dialog (called ‘Language Interface’) and then there are the languages supported in documents by the spell checker, grammar analysis and
A tool for syncing your Outlook data with online services. gSyncit is an option for pushing your Outlook data, calendar, contacts, tasks and notes to online services. This is important because it lets you access that Outlook info on other devices like the iPhone or Android smartphones with updates copied
What to do about the ‘Duqu’ malware that can be sent via Word documents. There’s plenty of noise but little hard facts so far about the Duqu malware attack. At the time of writing all we know is: There’s a new Windows exploit that the ‘Duqu’ malware uses to
How to get table or other information from the net into Excel (or Word). Ever seen some data on the Internet and want to copy it for yourself? From small tables to large data chunks, there’s several ways to do it. Simple copying Almost any table or grid on a
An iCloud link with Outlook sounds great, a pity it doesn’t work in the real world. Lots of iPhone and iPad users got excited when they learned about iCloud and its ability to sync mail, calendar, contacts and tasks with Outlook via the Internet. Hold the applause, if you actually
How to sync Outlook to your Apple devices with iCloud and why it sucks. Apple’s iCloud service provides a way to synchronize some parts of Outlook with your Apple iPhone, iTouch or iPad but it doesn’t work as most people would like. Before iCloud, you could synchronize your Outlook Contacts,
How to use Apple’s iCloud with your Office documents. iCloud is the new Apple service which lets you easily synchronize files between IPad / iPhone and desktop computers, here’s how it works. Did we say ‘easily’? More correct to say ‘a bit easier’. iCloud is a slightly better way to
Word’s spell check has a serious bug when it comes to symbols. Some time back we looked at the ‘Word ampersand mystery’, that’s where the spell-checker behaves strangely when there’s an ampersand in the text. It turns out to be a bigger problem involving many symbol characters. An ampersand at
At last, an easy way to find Word 2007 commands. We’re delighted to release a Word 2007 Command Finder to help you search through all 1,580 commands. Just like our Word 2010 Command Finder, we’ve taken the All Commands dialog and put them into a single, searchable list. This makes
The Comic Sans haters have risen again as a TV show is plastered with the hated Comic Sans font Stephen Fry’s latest TV show uses Comic Sans as its primary font, so the haters of the common font have risen in protest. We’ve talked about Comic Sans before. It’s not
What is there for Office users in the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire? Because there has been no mention of Office document compatibility on the new Kindles, we decided to take a look. There’s a little good news but things mostly stay the same. Document compatibility is important. Devices
Can you have a vertical ribbon in Microsoft Office? Is it possible to make the ribbon go vertically down the side of a document instead of horizontally? Back in Office 2003, it was possible to move the toolbar from the top row to any side of the Office window –
Microsoft has given reporters a brief ‘hands on’ look at Windows 8 – what does it mean for Office users? Windows 8 will have two interfaces – a traditional mouse/keyboard system similar to Windows 7/Vista/XP plus ‘Metro’. Metro is a ‘grown up’ version of the tiles system seen on new
How you can protect yourself against mail being intercepted by a fake domain The Godai Group have made a big splash with their report on ‘doppleganger domains’ that can spy on emails to and from an organization, but what can Outlook users do about it? What is a Doppleganger domain?
The Nook Color tablet/ereader supports an impressive list of Microsoft Office documents. Office Watch reader, Dale M writes: ” for the NookColor …. it reads natively, office documents in Office 2003 and in Office 2007 format. Works for Word, Excel and PowerPoint and maybe others. Also, PDFs display quite nicely
How to accurately work out the boot time for your computer. The Windows Event Log keeps a track of how long it takes to boot up your computer. There’s an interesting and well explained article here that explains where to look in the Event Viewer. This can be useful information
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