We had a great time on Australia’s Gold Coast for Microsoft’s annual Aussie nerd-fest. Had a great time at TechEd 2011 on Australia’s Gold Coast. For Office users all the talk at this year’s event was Office 365. Plenty of sessions for organizations on how to migrate in whole or
Office 365 users get a 25% discount after system failure. See Also: How to get a refund of Office 365 Office-Watch.com readers tell us that Microsoft has automatically given them a 25% credit on their August bills. Back on 17 August there was a disconnection of some North American Office
Exactly how large a message can you have with Office 365? Office Watch has managed to get to the bottom of the email size mystery with Office 365. The official size limit for incoming and outgoing messages is stated as 25MB Behind that number lies a tale. During the Office
The October Swiss elections might have an ‘Anti PowerPoint’ party on the ballot. In Switzerland they are trying to get the numbers for an ‘Anti-Powerpoint Party’ to stand in the October 2011 elections. The founder of the party, Matthias Poehm says that €350 billion could be saved each year simply
How to copy your Office documents onto ebook readers like the Kindle, Nook etc. Click here for Chalkboard Effect in Word – apologies for the wrong link … The rise of ebooks means there’s more interest in converting documents into formats that the devices can read – we’ll show you how
Outlook doesn’t see a scam traffic ticket. At Office Watch, we love finding a new email scam that Outlook’s Junk Email filter doesn’t catch. New to our Inbox are fake traffic tickets from New York. Do we need to tell you they are fakes? The reply address is fake whether
Office 365 went partly offline yesterday, though Microsoft isn’t being too forthcoming with details. Yesterday, 17 August, there were problems with Office 365 and Dynamics CRM, among other Microsoft online services. Some users connected to the North America servers could not access their email or manage accounts for much of
The stranded traveler scam is fairly new and we’ve just heard of a clever little twist. The stranded traveler scam is a way to profit from hacking into someone’s webmail account. Understanding how it works will help prevent you and your friends from being a victim. It works like this.
‘Gmail man’ is Microsoft latest promotional tool – is it really that great? Lots of people are getting excited about Microsoft’s Gmail Man video which is now doing the rounds. The video (allegedly only for internal Microsoft use) is a humorous attempt to denigrate Gmail in favor of Microsoft’s Office
Word 2007/2010 Text Box is also in Excel and PowerPoint. We’ve talked a lot about the Text Box feature in Word 2007 and Word 2010. Both Excel 2007 / 2010 and PowerPoint 2007/2010 have Text Box features similar to Word. There’s no gallery to choose from, so you have to click
The full list of Word 2010 Text Box Gallery items Here’s the full list from the Text Box built-in gallery in Word 2010 and Word 2007. Insert Tab | Text | Text Box. Some people find it easier to see the entire list on a single page rather than scrolling up and
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
