Spam filters can only give a guess about whether a message is spam or not … Last week we talked about messages disappearing before you receive them and the problem of over-zealous spam filters. In this issue we’ll look inside spam filters to see why they are not perfect. You
How can I get spam emails when my address isn’t listed as a receiver? Often spam arrives with email addresses in TO: or CC: that are similar but not the same as your address. You can’t find your address in the message – so how did it get to you?
From: CompanionLink Software, Inc. Access and edit Google Calendar information directly from your mobile device or Outlook! Access and edit Google Calendar information directly from your mobile device or Outlook! CompanionLink for Google Calendar is a two-way synchronization solution for people that want to access and modify their Google Calendar
While security patches come out each month, there’s a backlog of unpatched problems. Microsoft might be more aggressive about security problems but there are still things in the ‘too hard’ basket. The list of ‘Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerabilities’ from the French Security Incident Response Team makes sobering reading. According to that
An add-in lets you relive the Office 2003 experience on Office 2007. It had to happen, someone has filled the gap left by Microsoft. Addintools has produced an additional ribbon for Word 2007, Excel 2007 or Powerpoint 2007 which mimics the Office 2003 menus. The download is under 3MB with
The possible ‘road-blocks’ between you and an email message. There’s a very real possibility that a message you send won’t reach the intended destination. Email delivery isn’t guaranteed and these days there are plenty of blocks between sender and recipient. Every week we hear from readers who are either sending
The British Library is collecting emails this month. The British Library, in conjunction with Microsoft’s Windows Live is collecting a snapshot of email from UK residents all through May 2007. Email Britain is collecting messages from people to be preserved for future generations to get a glimpse of daily, virtual,
How to move your Powerpoint presentation to another computer to display. Another move by Google into Microsoft Office territory was recently announced with their purchase of Tonic. Later this year we can expect an online presentation system (a la Powerpoint) to join Google Docs and Spreadsheets as rivals to Microsoft
An all-too-common story from New Zealand where someone’s name causes their email to be refused. A somewhat funny email story from New Zealand this weekend shows how email filters have to be configured very carefully. Gay Hamilton sent an innocent customer enquiry to NZ Telecom (the major telco) and was
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,
