Office Watch readers come up with some truly strange arithmetic – Excel style. The conclusion: Excel definitely can’t add up – in fact it would fail an elementary school maths test. Does Excel have an addition bug? You’d think that was a simple question to answer, you just insert the
Here’s our questions to Microsoft about COFEE and the full, unedited, response from Microsoft to those questions. Office Watch likes to present facts not supposition – and in the case of the COFEE tool there’s far too much guesswork going on. That fact and our specific interest in Microsoft Office
Microsoft has a new tool to peek into computers and intended for law enforcement agencies. But what can it do with Microsoft Office documents and data? Microsoft is now talking about COFEE, a tool they have released to some law enforcement agencies to let them take a look at Windows
Excel 2003 has limited undo level, until you use our tip to increase the number of actions than can be reversed. Excel 2007 lets you undo 100 actions; with Excel 2003, the limit is 16 but that’s an arbitrary limit set by Microsoft. If that feels too restrictive, you can
Here’s how you can open separate windows in Outlook and save the positions for later use. Also why you’re not going crazy when it doesn’t work. You’re not limited to a single Outlook window, you can have many views open at the same time. For example, your Inbox, Calendar and
A ‘sweepstakes winner’ email appears to come from Microsoft .. it looks very sincere but it’s a hoax. You may have received a strange message recently that says you’re the winner of a sweepstakes run by Microsoft. The message is headed: Microsoft Office Live Workspace – Prize Winner Notification and
Word has a hidden calculator but Google’s online calculator is much better. If you spend lots of time in Word, you’ll find its calculator extremely useful; it’s much easier to get a result within the program you’re using than by having to load up an external application. However, if your
By default, Outlook displays either your Inbox or the Outlook Today page when you open it. What if you’d like it to display your calendar instead? Or, perhaps you’d find it handy to open two Outlook windows, one showing your Inbox and the other your calendar. By default, Outlook displays
Microsoft is starting a trial scheme of ‘nagging’ Office users who have ‘non genuine’ copies of Office. Microsoft is starting a trial scheme of ‘nagging’ Office users who have ‘non genuine’ copies of Office. At present there are various ‘Genuine Software’ technologies built into Office but there’s little direct notice
From: Microsoft Q&A: Cori Hartje, Worldwide Director, Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative, discusses Microsoft’s continued investments to help customers and partners realize the value of genuine software. REDMOND, Wash., April 8, 2008 — Computer users have had their share of challenges with software piracy. Which is why, over the past two
Google’s free tool to sync Outlook calendar with their online service gives you a powerful combination and new options. Google’s online calendar can now synchronize with your Outlook calendar – it does it well, for free and is available now. There’s several reasons why you might want to keep a
You can make Windows Search index your computer faster – here’s how. Windows Search in Vista doesn’t have an ‘Index now’ option though some versions of Windows Search (ie for Windows Server 2003) do have the option. There’s no button on the Control Panel | Indexing Options that can do it
You might think that MS Office and computerized record keeping has penetrated all parts of government – but apparently there’s one hold-out – FEMA. The now infamous US government agency, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency ) has apparently not joined the computer revolution of the last 20 years. The Advocate
Some Word, Excel and Powerpoint links don’t work properly — but why and where do they go? Some Microsoft Knowledge Base articles open up more questions than they answer .. take this recent addition … KB949282 headed: “You may not be redirected to the correct Web site when you click a
A beta of the next incarnation of Windows Search is now available for download .. by the brave, foolhardy or anyone with way too much time on their hands. A beta of the next incarnation of Windows Search is now available for download by the brave, foolhardy or anyone with
Down in Melbourne, Australia there’s what may be the first truly Microsoft Office enhanced stand-up comedy act. Melbourne, Australia has what may be the first Microsoft Office enhanced stand-up comedy act. Veteran comedian, Rod Quantock, uses not only Powerpoint but also Word and Excel in his latest show, 2050AD. Plenty
It’s that time of year again when many countries switch on or off Daylight Savings / Summer time … and so begins the twice yearly headache for Outlook users. There’s a useful online wizard to help, from a surprising source. It’s that time of year again when many countries switch
Why Vista is such a concern and why Windows Server 2008 is a better workstation option when it uses the same core technologies as Vista. Some readers have been asking why Vista is such a concern and why Windows Server 2008 is a better workstation option when it uses the
Vista Service Pack 1 is now available to all but is it worthwhile for anyone using Microsoft Office on Vista? Vista Service Pack 1 is now available to all (see links below) but is it worthwhile for anyone using Microsoft Office on Vista? The answer is an absolute YES –
Once you have Windows Server 2008 running as a workstation you can install Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2003 with only a few tweaks. We show you the steps … Once you have Windows Server 2008 running as a workstation you can install Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office
Around the geekier parts of the net there’s a lot of talk about using Windows Server 2008 as a desktop operating system. We’ve done it and we’re considerably impressed with the result – it makes a mockery of all the boasts about Windows Vista. We’ve got some advice and links
A good example of how to present data effectively – using data from a 60’s TV show. Anyone who has followed Star Trek probably knows about the ‘red shirt’ phenomenon – in the original show any character wearing a red shirt was likely to die after beaming down to a
All the March 2008 security updates relate to Microsoft Office. All the March 2008 security updates relate to Microsoft Office – from Office 2007 to Office 2000 All of the problems are ‘remote code execution’ issues where specially crafted files can allow a program to be unknowingly run on your
It’s easy to add an appointment directly from a web link – if the web site will do it. Some web sites have links which let you add an appointment directly to your copy of Outlook. There are various ways to do it. One requires the installation of some additional
