How to get more out of Microsoft Word or Excel by using the free collaboration and portability tools from Google. Living with Google Apps and Microsoft Office Google’s move to an online version of Office continues with the announcement that they have purchased an online presentation system. Later this year
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has a neat explanation of how to ‘accidently’ delete email in Outlook. For a bit of fun, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart recently explained how you can ‘accidently’ delete emails in Outlook. We’re not getting into the political elements of this — we
A look at Microsoft’s online maps and directions add-in for Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. Microsoft has released an updated mapping add-in for Outlook 2002 (XP), Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. You may have already seen a pop-up advising the update when you start Outlook. The new download
Some Outlook Calendar tips we collected while writing ‘Effective Outlook CALENDARS’ Our latest ebook is Effective Outlook CALENDARS – a comprehensive look at the calendar, appointment and events in Outlook 2002 (XP), Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. In this issue we’ll share some of the tips we found while writing
We explain what’s really going on with AutoArchive and why you might not want to use it at all. Yesterday, Kara Monroe gave a great summary of Outlook’s AutoArchive feature, which is an automatic way to move older messages and items to a separate Outlook PST file. Now it’s my
There’s a video on the MS web site explaining the Office 2007 user interface. The best way to get an understanding of the upcoming Office 2007 user interface is the video that is available on the Microsoft web site The new UI is hard to describe in either words or
The ‘Privacy’ option at Google Checkout does more than you might expect or want. At Google Checkout (Google’s online payment option) you’ll see an option like this: ‘Keep my email address confidential. Google will forward all email from to ‘. This option creates an email alias (eg ‘some_long_string_of_letters_and_numbers@checkout.google.com’ ) which
Do you know all the email addresses you have available? Remember when you got your first email address? What an exciting time, giving it out to friends and hoping for incoming emails. Even your first spam might have been interesting. These days the problem for many people isn’t one email
If and how to use Outlook’s AutoArchive feature – by Kara Monroe. STORING OLD EMAIL WITH AUTOARCHIVE AND OTHER OPTIONS by Kara Monroe Chances are if you’ve used Microsoft Outlook for any period of time, you’ve been prompted to AutoArchive your old items. AutoArchive is a tool that backs up
Despite what you might think and some info from Microsoft, you can install the Office 2007 upgrade without the qualifying program installed on the hard drive. According to the Office 2007 upgrade retail box statement “The enclosed program will search your hard disk to confirm your eligibility for this upgrade”
The eligibilty requirements on Office 2007 retail boxes are wrong. Microsoft blunders, others suffer The upgrade information on Office 2007 retail boxes is wrong. Before you buy an Office 2007 upgrade, you need to check your upgrade entitlement carefully because the information written on the side of the box is
We continue this series by providing another assortment of simple, yet often “invisible” features in Office. According to Microsoft, around 80% of the feature requests they get for Office are already currently within the applications. Last year we started a series of articles in Office for Mere Mortals about this
We round off our date functions in Excel topic with a look at custom date formats, the NETWORKDAYS() function, and an in-depth discussion on sharing date-related worksheets between Mac and Windows. By Michael Barden In the last edition of Office for Mere Mortals, we used the basic date formulas in
We have a look at some of the basic date formulas and how to combine them to make more powerful date-based functions. By Michael Barden In the last edition of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at the basics of the date and time formats, the different ways they can
Time is running out for people to update their computers to handle the daylight savings changes in the US. This coming weekend, daylight savings time starts in much of the US and Canada, instead of early April in the past. As readers of Office Watch have known for many years,
We look at some common problem areas with email account connections and how to trace the fault. When you’re setting up a new email account in your email program there’s lots of little things that can go wrong. One little typo or misunderstanding can break the connection. While the troubleshooting
What happens when a good Excel worksheet goes bad. Based on an article by Helen Bradley What happens when there’s an error in a worksheet? The answer is that it depends on what the worksheet is calculating and how bad the error is. Theoretically if an error were to over
We run through the basics related to date and time formats in Excel 2003. By Michael Barden Working with dates in Excel is a common task: Are you trying to determine the number of days between two dates? Do you need to know the date that is X number of
There’s no simple answer to which one is better, Google Apps online or Microsoft Office on your PC. by Peter Deegan, Editor-in-Chief, Office Watch Google Applications has taken another step towards being the equivalent to online version of Microsoft Office, including now adding a paid version aimed at heavy users
Our new ebook is about all the amazing formatting options in Microsoft Word. We’re delighted to tell you about our latest ‘Quickie’ ebook – Formatting Magic with Word. There’s a lot more to Word than just bold, italics, underline and other options that can be squeezed onto the toolbars. Formatting
Interesting comments and stories from our readers Some interesting messages from readers after our last issue regarding access to email accounts after the death of the user. In that article we deliberately kept our comments general – the legal situation for executors or estate administrators varies between countries and states.
Some thoughts about a ’12 step’ program for email junkies. Another article that caught my eye was on CNN Twelve-steps to curing e-mail addiction. Being overwhelmed by email is certainly a problem, but we’re not sure that some of the suggestions are the right course. In particular the idea of
What happens if you need to access webmail for someone who has died? And what should you do to prepare? An interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald about access to email accounts after the account holder dies. This caught Peter’s eye because in a previous decade (pre-email) he worked
‘Clever Outlook Contacts’ and ‘Organising Outlook Email’ both updated for Outlook 2007. We’ve updated both of our popular Outlook ebooks to include Outlook 2007. Peter has added an entire new chapter to Clever Outlook Contacts with detail and tips specific to Outlook 2007. There’s now over 20 extra pages of
