What’s in SP1, how to get it and why you should wait. Microsoft has finally released a Service Pack for Office 2013, the first major update to Office 2013. It’s a bundle of fixes for known and previously unknown (secret) bugs in Office 2013. In this article we’ll tell you about the fixes and gotchas […]
There’s more to Skype than just free calls. Everyone knows that you can make free computer-to-computer calls via Skype, but there are plenty of other, hidden, Skype options. Some are free, others will save you money. There’s one free feature that Microsoft tries to trick you into paying for – and we’ll show you how […]
There’s one glaring omission from Skype that’s an embarrassment to Microsoft It’s been almost two years since Microsoft bought Skype, yet even the simple bits of integration with Microsoft Office haven’t appeared. The most basic mixing of Office and Skype is an Outlook social connector. This would let Skype contacts appear in the Outlook 2010/2013 […]
Don’t get excited about an ‘Office for iPad’ until we see it. The online commentariat was alight with news about the coming Office for iPad. Not much news really, just a rumor that Office for iPad was still ‘coming’ and probably before a version of Office for Windows 8 touch screens. We’ll wait to see […]
How to find your pictures to insert into an Office document. Even a simple thing like adding a picture to an Office document or email has subtleties and annoyances. When you choose Insert | Picture in recent versions of Office, it opens, by default, in the Picture Library. That seems sensible, at least to Microsoft. […]