What to do about the latest email pest that Outlook isn’t detecting. The latest serial Inbox pest is fake messages that appear to come from the LinkedIn service. Outlook with the latest junk e-mail update doesn’t pick them up. The ‘From’ address is spoofed to appear to come from linkedin.com
Why the low use of Bitlocker when it can secure your private documents and emails? A recent survey has found that nearly 99% of computers that could encrypt their hard drives with Microsoft’s Bitlocker don’t bother. On a normal computer, the hard drive is ‘open’. Even if someone doesn’t have
OneNote 2010 has introduced Heading styles the same as in Word. OneNote 2010 has introduced Heading styles the same as in Word. This is a welcome new feature because it makes it much easier to structure notes as you type them. The OneNote developers understand the importance of keyboard shortcuts
An overview of the Print options in the new Backstage view. In Office 2010 the Print tab is moved to the File menu aka Backstage. Available Printer options, page settings and page preview have all been grouped together in one place and made more obvious. The Print pane is much
As time runs out for the Office 2010 Tech Guarantee, a report of a problem With only a week to go on the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee, Tom K. has written about his troubles getting a free copy of Office 2010 for his recently purchased Office 2007. He successfully activated
Despite what the Microsoft web site says, TechNet packs has Office 2010 and then some. TechNet is a great program for IT Professionals that provides a wide range of Microsoft products for evaluation purposes, but if you check their web site it seems that Office 2010 isn’t included! A few
There’s hints of a Military Appreciation Edition for Canada – where is it? Ever since we first saw the licence agreement for Office 2010 we’ve been intrigued about this section: “CANADIAN FORCES SOFTWARE. You must be a “CANEX Authorized Patron” to license software marked as “Canadian Forces” edition.” (the full
Microsoft asks customers for their best calendar designs. Over at Office.Microsoft.com they are running a competition for the best calendar designs for 2011. The competition is for 2011 calendars using either Word, Excel or PowerPoint (2007 or 2010 editions). The entries appear online and the ‘winners’ will be based on the
How to index the code on ASP and ASP.net web pages with Windows Search A problem with Windows Search is the default treatment of web pages with programming code like PHP, ASP and ASP.net. The Windows Search indexing filter for these types only indexes the visible parts of the web
Two ‘free’ update emails are scams but not detected by Outlook. We check out the ‘red flags’ you should look for in any suspicious or unexpected email. Two similar scam messages have arrived in the last day, they might fool some people and certainly don’t get caught by Microsoft Outlook’s
Live Mesh goes back to being Live Mesh with 5GB online storage. The bad news came when Microsoft announced that the wonderful ‘Live Mesh’ system had been renamed ‘Live Sync’ and emasculated into a shell of the popular system they were working on. Now the good news – Microsoft has
The next release of SBS will include Office Web Apps. We’ve always liked Microsoft’s Small Business Server – a relatively cheap way to get centralized email, document storage and sharing. You get the considerable power of Exchange Server and Sharepoint in an easy to configure system. Office Watch has used
A chance to get a laptop for 6 months plus a copy of Office 2010 to keep. Microsoft has an interesting program starting up headed “Wanted: Your Microsoft Office Story”. They are making up a group of people (from a broad cross-section of users) and giving each person the loan
Some options for making a Gmail like ‘Priority Inbox’ in Outlook. Google’s Gmail service continues to innovate with the addition of a Priority Inbox feature. This feature (being gradually deployed to all Gmail users) puts ‘important’ emails into a special view above the standard Inbox. What is deemed ‘important’ changes
Frustration at trying to link a Window Mobile device to a Windows computer Jo J. writes with frustration at trying to link a Window Mobile device to a Windows computer: “I go buy three products and I real love using office 2010, a breath of fresh air. But I cannot
Only a month to go for the Office 2010 ‘free’ updates. The usual ‘Technology Guarantee’ for Office 2010, where recent purchasers of Office 2007 get a free upgrade, is closing soon. To qualify you must buy Office 2007, install and activate it before Thursday 30 September 2010 That’s not a
Microsoft adds some more features to their online service, including printing. Microsoft’s online version of Office – Office Web Apps has been revised with some extra features including printing. A major difference between the traditional Office software and the online service is how they are updated. Software is updated with
The free browser version of Office is worth trying out. Office Web Apps are the online, browser based versions of the Microsoft Office programs. There are versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that can run in a web browser wherever you are and are totally free. The Web Apps
” Today I went to the local computer store, which is in Canada, and acquired as to its cost. Since I use Access I have no choice but to purchase the Professional version. The retailer sells a Product Key for $499 and a CD for $699. I purchased a new
Why would existing Mac users pay more than they need to for Office 2011? Sandy J writes: “For many Macintosh users, I cannot see they would need to pay for the ‘Business’ box of Office 2011. The only important addition is Outlook for Mac which most Mac users don’t need.
A nice and informative PowerPoint presentation we made a little smaller and safer. A lovely PowerPoint presentation arrived in our Inbox (thanks Peter!) which we’ve decided to share with Office-Watch.com readers. It’s a series of day and night photos of Earth from space taken by Sunita Williams called ‘Blue Beauty’.
A curious marketing match – buy Office 2010 and get $100 to fly Southwest Airlines. Amazon currently has a promotion where you get $100 to spend on Southwest Airlines flights if you buy Office 2010 Home and Business. It’s not a bad deal as long as you’re a business customer
Take advantage of the Technology Guarantee to get a small discount on the upcoming Office for Mac There is a small opportunity to save money on Office 2011 for Mac Home and Business edition. The Technology Guarantee is now in effect for anyone buying Office 2008 for Mac until 30
Microsoft isn’t really cutting the prices of Office for Mac – it just looks that way. We’ve been intrigued to see press reports of Microsoft ‘cutting’ the prices on Office 2011 for Mac. It looks that way at first glance but, as usual, a closer look shows that Office 2011
