SkyDrive saves more about your Office documents than it first appears. When you save a document to SkyDrive, Microsoft collects some more details than you’d expect but hasn’t bothered to tell its customers. We’ve already told you about Jason Hale and his discovery that the ‘Welcome Back’ details when re-opening a document are not saved in […]
Farewell, Mike Parker who brought Helvetica to the mainstream but alas not to Microsoft Windows or Office for Windows. Mike Parker isn’t a household name but the chances are the every household has an example of Helvetica, the font he helped make popular. When he worked for Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Mr Parker added many fonts, […]
A list of Microsoft Office versions and their latest Service Packs. If you don’t have Office 2013, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Here’s a list of the latest service packs for each version of Microsoft Office going back more than a decade. For the recent versions of Office, at least Office 2007 and later, you […]
The ‘hiding’ call toolbar, your privacy and bypassing countries that try to block Skype. Over the years we’ve shown a lot of people, mostly travelers, how to get more from Skype. As well as our Skype Hidden Extras article, here’s a few more tips from the Skype coalface. The call toolbar When you make a […]
How to update Microsoft Office with the new name, OneDrive, and remove the old SkyDrive name. Recent versions of Office have the name SkyDrive (with the extra capital letter) in the supplied dictionary. However the new OneDrive name hasn’t made it to the Office dictionary yet. Here’s what you’ll see in a default Word 2013 […]