How to easily make appointments with other people using Outlook. Outlook has some great features for making appointments and sharing those details with others. The main features can be used by anyone to setup dinner, movies or any personal event. Outlook lets you create an appointment in your calendar then
Workarounds for a curious omission in Microsoft Word for Mac. Eileen B writes: “I designed an awesome certificate, but the background won’t print. I’m working on a Mac.” Eileen has been using the tips and supplied certificates in our popular ebook “Creative Certificates with Word“. This includes sample certificates like
A new Office 2003 bug that stops you opening documents. There’s a new Office 2003 bug but it doesn’t affect most users and almost certainly not home or small business customers. If you have Microsoft’s Rights Management Service (RMS) in your organization then documents protected with that system might not
What to watch for when making a place for your documents. Once you’re setup Office Live Workspace you have to create one or more workspaces to put documents in. Before creating a workspace it’s worth keeping in mind a big limitation of Office Live Workspaces – sharing permissions are only
How to get started with Office Live Workspace – assuming that you want to. Microsoft’s Office Live Workspace (OLW) is a free file sharing and online storage service. In the workspace you can create, save, access, edit and share documents with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, etc. It is
Excel 2010 changes function names like STDEV and VAR partly for Microsoft’s own benefit. Excel 2010 has revamped all the Standard Deviation STDEV and VAR functions with the old version ‘deprecated’ or demoted. There is now STDEV.S and STDEV.P for the sample and population versions of the function. STDEV and
In a rare capitulation to customer demands, the File menu returns to Office 2010 – sort of. There’s one immediate and noticeable difference in the latest Office 2010 beta – the return of the File menu. In Office 2007 the old file menu was replaced by the Office button, the
Microsoft says people can test ‘Office in a browser’ so why doesn’t it work? Microsoft says people can test ‘Office in a browser’ so why doesn’t it work? If you have a Windows Live login you can go to Skydrive.com and try out Microsoft’s new ‘Office Web Applications’ which are
VBA macros should migrate from Word 2003 to 2007 but don’t bet on it. Yes, VBA macros from Word 2003 should work in Word 2007. We always say ‘should’ because there are inevitably changes in VBA behaviors between versions of Office and “Murphy’s Law” says that one of these ‘minor’
or in Word 2010 for that matter? Select All will choose the entire contents of the Word document, text, images, the lot. It’s on the Home tab, Editing block, Select then choose ‘Select All’. Quite likely the Select All option is ‘buried’ because most users will use the keyboard shortcut ‘Ctrl
There’s lots more ways to use Powerpoint without standing in front of an audience. It’s easy to think of Powerpoint as only useful for people who have to give a speech, but there’s actually many other choices for saving slides and presentations that let you use Powerpoint in many other
The most noticeable changes in Office 2010 are in Outlook and, sad to say, they aren’t all for the best. Some early notes and first impressions based on the most recent beta release of Outlook 2010. The most noticeable changes in Office are in Outlook 2010 and, sad to say,
From: Microsoft Q&A: Kurt DelBene, senior vice president of the Office Business Productivity Group at Microsoft, discusses what is new in the public beta and what developers can expect from the upcoming release of Office 2010 and related products. Earlier this year Microsoft introduced the technical preview program for Microsoft
You can try out Visio 2010 now. The Visio 2010 beta is now available. MSDN users can get it from the MSDN web site. The rest of us can go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390821.aspx to get a copy. You need to register first. You’ll also need to download the Enterprise CAL edition
When the Space Shuttle Atlantis orbits Earth, its crew checks email using something you probably have on your own desk right now: Microsoft Outlook. NASA runs a stripped-down version of Outlook 2003 on standard laptops in orbit, powered by Exchange Server, but with a twist that no office on Earth
You can try out Office 2010 now, here’s how. Office 2010 beta versions are now available. MSDN users can get it from the MSDN web site. The rest of us can go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390818.aspx to get a copy. You need to register first. Product Activation A product key (a ‘MAK
Our popular Outlook guide is now available for Kindle device and Windows software. We’re delighted to announce the release of our Clever Outlook Contacts book on Amazon for worldwide distribution on your PC or Kindle device. It’s the same ebook as we’ve sold to thousands of people over the years,
Beware, we’ve seen a live OWA demo and it has the usual Microsoft fudging. If the demo of Microsoft Office Web Applications (OWA) that we’ve seen is any guide, the audience will have to be very careful to pick truth as it edges into lies. A favorite trick in the
Make great personal photo albums with Powerpoint. Creating a photo album in PowerPoint 2007 has become very interesting and convenient. The themes, layouts and Quick Styles make formatting the albums a cakewalk. PowerPoint slideshows aren’t just for projecting on a big screen in front of an audience. You can use
A new yuletide e-book for making cards, letters etc with Microsoft Office. Christmas Cheer with Office – PREMIUM Edition, is the new yuletidee-book from the makers of the Organizing Outlook Email, Eye-Catching Signs with Word and the Office Watch newsletters. Office Watch head honcho, Peter Deegan has teamed up with
From: Jive Software Jive Extends its Social Layer Deep into the Enterprise, Wide Across the Firewall, and Out into the Marketplace Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced the general availability of Jive Social Business Software (SBS) 4.0. The new offering is the largest, most ambitious release Jive Software has brought
A ‘support’ message you should definitely ignore. Going the rounds at the moment is a fake support message with an infected attachment. The only thing you should do with such a message is DELETE IT since Outlook’s own protection doesn’t catch it. Microsoft never distributes updates or patches via email
Redmond boasts about MS Office are excessive or merely what you’d expect. As part of the Office 2010 hype, Microsoft has given some numbers to the reach of their Office suite. But as usual, these numbers need a reality check. They seem to be either excessive or merely what you’d expect
Microsoft has two products called OWA – which one is which? Microsoft has two browser-based products with the same acronym. Anyone who has worked in an organization with Exchange Server will know about ‘Outlook Web Access’ – it’s a way to get to your email from a browser instead of
