More tips and details about putting one Word document inside another. Following our article on Word linking and embedding in Office for Mere Mortals, here’s some additional tips and help to do things not allowing in the Word dialog boxes. Making it permanent For future reference you’ll want the main
Microsoft’s promotional videos for Office 2010 continue with a video showing how Apollo 11 could have been made. Following Microsoft’s remaking of the US Declaration of Independence we now have a marketing video showing how NASA could have made the moon shots with Excel 2010. It shows how weight was
How to make one Word document appear in another document by linking or embedding. A Word document can be placed inside another so it appears in the second document. This can be done as a ‘one-off’ insertion or a linking where changes to the source document automatically appear elsewhere. For
Three options for tracking the life and times of your laptop battery., Over time, your laptop battery gets tired and less able to keep a charge – but how to know when it’s time to replace it? There are some nifty utilities to track your battery status in great detail
If you get Office 365, should you subscribe or buy. An in-depth look at whether the Office 365 software subscription is worth considering. Office 365 comes with the option to rent Office 2010 software – is that a good choice? For the most part, Office 365 is a collection of
Office XP drops off the edge of the Microsoft support cliffside. It’s more than ten years since Office XP was unleashed to the public. That means Microsoft will stop supporting the software from 11 July 2011. As far as Microsoft support is concerned, Office XP will be no more, it
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download, if you want to be a guinea pig for Microsoft. Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download, if you want to be a guinea pig for Microsoft. The major update to Office 2010 can be
Office 365 is available now – is it anything really new? Office 365 is the latest incarnation of the Microsoft Office family and is now publicly available. It isn’t anything new from a technical point of view. Office 365 is a marketing move to bundle online and software services into
Where is the Select All command and why you don’t need to find it. “As software changes so do the tool bars. A simple change for the location of the “select all” button is frustrating’ – Anthony C. We assume Anthony is asking about the ribbon in Office 2007 and
Some anti-spam settings to avoid in Outlook We spend a lot of time writing about Outlook settings and how to use them. It occurred to us that there are settings we don’t talk about because they are NOT good and best avoided. In the past we looked at Navigation Buttons.
We’ve been promised an update to Office 2010 for 6 months – where is it? For the last six months we’ve been promised an update to Office 2010, Microsoft is now saying it will be out before the end of this month. Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be
Microsoft lost its last appeal against a ruling that it used patented technology in Word. The US Supreme Court has confirmed a ruling that Microsoft is guilty of patent infringement in Word, awarding the largest ever judgment in an patent appeal case – US$290 million. Microsoft lost their appeal 8-0
Outlook 2010 has several options for reading a message without opening it but it could be better. Down on the bottom right corner of Outlook 2010 are some controls for reading messages in the reading pane. The Reading Pane is the newer name for what most of us call the
An alternative way to view Office documents and many other file formats. Free Opener is a new, free tool that lets you open and view over 70 different file formats including most of the types used by Microsoft Office. The concept is for a single download that can let you
A free way to get your Office Product Key from a variety of sources. ProduKey is another of the clever programs from Nirsoft. It reads a variety of Windows registry sources to display the Windows, Office and some other software product keys. Most key recovery programs only operate only on
Gmail hack from China has lessons for everyone and there’s one simple thing you can do to protect yourself. The latest attack on Gmail accounts could happen to anyone with any online email account – here’s how to avoid being hacked with one simple trick that will save you from
Google removes a key feature from Gmail without proper explanation and before a replacement is ready. Google has disabled the key ‘offline mail’ feature in Gmail without warning, without clear notice and only for its own Chrome browser users! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. For some time, Gmail
Some enhancements to our popular Word 2010 commands finder Thanks to all the Office-Watch.com readers who sent in suggestions and thanks about our Word 2010 Command Finder. We’ve acted on those comments and added a few improvements: Type in your text then press Enter to start the search. The command
One important but hidden feature in Outlook will let you see more and faster. Outlook has a lot of different aspects; email, calendar, contacts etc and we see many people switching between them, waiting for different views to load …. and they don’t have to. If you click on a
Put more useful navigation options on the Outlook screen. The default Outlook Navigation pane isn’t meant for you, it’s intended for absolute beginners to the program and to reduce the number of support calls. Once you’ve started to use Outlook, it’s time to change the way it looks to suit
Navigation Buttons take up valuable space you can better use in Outlook – here’s how. The navigation buttons are the ones on the left of Outlook ‘Mail’ ‘Calendar’ ‘Contacts’ etc. They are big, space gobbling buttons designed for new Outlook users – once you’re past the very basics there’s better
So Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, does it mean anything for Office users? Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, does it mean anything for Office users? To keep Microsoft Office as the market leader, Redmond’s main aim is to entwine people into not just Windows and Office
Why the Office command list isn’t comprehensive and how to add ‘missing’ items. Our Command Finder list is the list supplied by Microsoft in the command customization dialog. We’ve provided an easier way to find that information but are limited to what Redmond has provided all Office users. Not everything
The New Yorker has another PowerPoint cartoon. The New Yorker’s 11 April issue had another in the occasional series of PowerPoint cartoons, though this one originated from 2004. Alas we’re not allowed to republish the image without paying a fee but we invite you to click to see cartoon titled:
