Microsoft Word has it’s say on how to pronounce ‘GIF’ Steve Wilhite really set us geeks on fire this week. As the creator of the popular GIF image format he revealed that he preferred the soft-g pronunciation ‘jif’ (as in ‘jiffy’ or ‘gin’) not the commonly used ‘gif’ (with a hard G like ‘graphic’). You’d […]
The separated Google storage quotas are now under one roof. Google has announced that the free storage available to all comers has now been combined into a single 15GB limit that you can use as you like across their services. Previously Google gave away Gmail, Google Drive with Google + photos with separate storage limits: […]
Is there any difference in the software buying Office 365 or Office 2013 Microsoft uses the terms ‘Office 365’ and ‘Office 2013’ interchangeably and confusingly so it’s no wonder Office-Watch.com gets asked about differences between the two. Strictly speaking ‘Office 2013’ is the software – the successor to Office 2010 and before. You install Office […]
A useful Word 2007 and Word 2010 feature – but not Word 2013? A common way to make a new Word document is to use an old document at the starting point. Word has a few ways to do that quickly. Why do it? Often you want to make a letter, proposal or other document […]
Other ways to make a new document based on an existing one … There’s more than one way to get a similar result as ‘New from Existing…’ that are worth keeping in mind. They apply across all recent versions of Word as well as Excel and Powerpoint too. You can just open the source document […]