A PDF editing mode arrives in Word 2013. For a long time people have asked for a way to edit PDF files – Word 2013 has it, sort of. It’s an understandable feature request even though it’s a bit like asking to edit a paper book or a stained glass window – neither format is […]
Finding the stand-alone version of Office 2013 isn’t made easy – here’s how. Microsoft’s preference for the public trial of Office 2012 is the cloud based system with their ‘click to run’ technology and streaming services. You can do that starting here. That might suit some people however why be the guinea pig for fairly new technologies […]
Outlook 2013 takes a backward step in readability. Grab a ruler and it’s easy to see how Microsoft has wasted screen space with Outlook 2013. The message view with preview turned off uses about 20% more vertical space than Outlook 2007 – That means less messages visible on the screen at any one time and […]
Unread messages view returns in Outlook 2013. Viewing ‘Unread mails only’ has returned as a classic ‘flip flop’ from Microsoft. Outlook 2010 dropped the ‘Unread messages’ view because Microsoft assured us their testing showed that people didn’t want or use that feature. Really? People didn’t want to see just unread messages? In what alternate universe […]
A look into the history of Dragon Systems. Long time computer users will remember Dragon Systems and their speech recognition software. The company was taken over by Lernout & Hauspie – a company that continues to be mentioned in the ‘About’ window of Office 2010. The sad and strange story of the take over is […]