Prepare for Office Web Applications – get a Windows Live login. A prerequisite for using the public version of Office Web Applications (browser versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Onenote) will be having a Windows Live login. We’re suggesting that you get a Windows Live login now, before you decide
If you get access to Office via your browser, what’s on offer now? Only half. Microsoft is gradually rolling out browser-based versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. If you have a Windows Live / Hotmail login you might receive an invitation to join the pre-release trials. If you accept
How to convert a PDF to a Word document and why it’s so hard. ” One of the things that drives me crazy is that it’s easy to convert documents from Microsoft Word 2007 to PDF (for commercial printing) but very hard to convert PDF back to Word without screwing
How Outlook manages different FROM addresses. John L has done a great job merging all his email accounts into a single Gmail storage but still has a problem: ” A puzzling Outlook-Gmail question: With the newly added SMTP functionality to Gmail, I can now use the Gmail website to consolidate
You can now sync your Outlook notes to iTouch or iPhone. You can now sync your Outlook notes to iTouch or iPhone Sometime recently Apple sneaked in the ability to synchronize your Outlook Notes folder with your iPod Touch (aka iTouch) or iPhone. When this happened we’re not entirely sure. Apple’s
The 5th Gen Nano has an alarm feature that’s useful for sleepy travellers. The new iPod Nano has an effective little alarm clock. In the iPod Nano 5th generation models is a little speaker, which means the Alarm feature will work even if you don’t have earphones or speakers plugged
More useful stats functions in Excel by David Goodmanson Continuing our series on Excel’s statistical functions … we started with Average/Mean and now move onto the misunderstood cousin Median plus also Mode. Median and Mode If we are looking for work and are told that the average salary is $45,000,
Today some Windows Live users will be able to try Office web apps. Today some Windows Live users will be able to try Office web apps. What Microsoft calls a ‘select group’ of SkyDrive users will be able to try the web application versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint. SkyDrive,
Microsoft is asking for more people to test Office 2010 and especially the web applications. Microsoft has opened up a page where you can apply for entry to the Office 2010 beta and also the Office Web Applications. Go here. Strictly speaking your applying for ‘early notification’ of the upcoming
See a video preview of Office 2010 web applications for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft has released a video showing some features from the upcoming Office Web Applications In the Word web application you can see images and tables in a web based version of a Word document. Excel web
Linking your iPod to Outlook is possible but not always. One thing that Apple’s iPod range can do, at least in theory, is copy your latest Contact and Calendar information from Outlook to your portable device. This is a handy way to find a phone number or remember appointment details
Microsoft offers nothing for Office users in their new Zune Microsoft has released its new Zune HD in the USA and it’s hard to get at all excited about it compared to the Apple iTouch. It really is amazing to see the Zune stumble from version to version in a
Doc Scrubber lets you remove hidden Word info without Word itself. Some years ago, Microsoft ‘discovered’ the problem of ‘meta-data’, their term for the additional information in a Word document that you might not want to share with others. The most common meta-data problem is revisions – you might not
One thing is difficult in the Apple Store – buying stuff I went to an Apple Store today to buy an iPod Nano but struck surprising difficulties. Apple Stores have gained a good reputation for bringing and keeping people in the Apple fold. There are knowledgeable people there who will
We all know Microsoft Office is coming to the browser – but what is it called? An important part of Office 2010 will be a complementary release of some Office features accessible your web browser. Various names have been floating around but we’ve been assured the official name is: Office
One big thing to beware of when you see an Office 2010 demo. The Office 2010 hype is about to start in earnest and from the Microsoft demos we’ve seen so far there’s one big gotcha. Microsoft loves showing off new features, they do not make clear is the full
How to renovate your email to make it better, faster and generally gorgeous. Following on from Ray’s message about sharing an email account, we have some suggestions for a better way to share email and generally renovate your all important email access. Ray has found a system that works for
One readers solution to sharing email accounts across several copies of Outlook. Office Watch reader, Ray T tells us how he manages to run Outlook on several computers working from the same email account plus some problems in doing that. This is the first part, in a follow up article
How to get your Gmail even when it’s down. The headlines were ominous – Google’s Gmail service has crashed leaving people without their email. But it wasn’t a problem for anyone who was prepared for an outage. While it’s true that Gmail had problems last week, but not everyone was
Sundry notes to round out our coverage of IMAP in Outlook. Flags With Outlook you can only set flags on IMAP messages that are in the Inbox or any other folder but you cannot send or receive messages which are flagged. The Quick click flag option where you can customize
Working with Gmail ‘starred’ messages in Outlook If you have used Gmail then you must be aware of the “Starred folder” (shown within the red circle in the below screenshot). In Gmail Stars are meant to give messages a special status to make them find easier when you search for
Speeding up the message sync between Outlook and your email host. Outlook’s default action for IMAP accounts is to download the message header only; you have to mark the message for full download. That was probably a good idea when dial-up modems ruled the earth but is more of a
With IMAP you can choose which folders on the email host to copy to Outlook. With IMAP you can choose which folders on the email host to copy to a local device. With Outlook you’ll probably want to replicate all folders so you can view anything you need when offline.
Tricks for handling more than one email account in Outlook It’s NOT a good idea to have both POP and IMAP connections running to the same email host. That’s because the POP connection will usually delete messages on the host when they are moved to Outlook, once deleted they’ll be
