Choices for formatting fields in Word Mail Merge
How to change the look of Word mail merge data like dates and dollar amounts to exactly what you want Read More
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Find pane search secrets in Word
Search for text and more within a document using the Find side-pane feature in Word. There are secrets making it Read More
Access: Persistence of Reference Problems
Back in 2002 I wrote an Access Archon article dealing with reference issues, among them the problem of certain references Read More
Office for Mac 2015 roadmap
As part of the Outlook for Mac release, Microsoft has indicated their Office for Mac plans. A new Office for Read More
Creative alternatives to Word
While Microsoft Word lumbers along, there’s some interesting and genuinely creative word processors out there. We’re not talking about direct Read More
Outlook annoyance with Exchange Server
More than a few Outlook users have seen this error message “The Microsoft Exchange administrator has made a change that Read More
Where is Microsoft on email encryption?
Microsoft needs to play ‘catch up’ with email encryption. Yahoo is going to join Google is supporting not just email Read More
More characters for Unicode
Unicode adds more characters to an already large list. Unicode has added another 2,834 new characters in the Unicode 7.0 Read More
More Microsoft encryption promises
Do the latest Microsoft data encryption promises mean much? Microsoft has announced more encryption services for customers but it’s more Read More
Touch features in Office 2013
Office 2013 has some clever tricks when you touch the screen. Tony G writes: ” … there are some subtle Read More
Office 365 outage mystery
Email services for Office 365 and Exchange Online should now be resumed but Microsoft handled it really badly. In Microsoft’s Read More
World Cup scores in Outlook
You can get match results automatically in Outlook Once great thing about Outlook’s Internet Calendar feature is that it can Read More
Get the World Cup into Outlook
How to get the World Cup schedule into Outlook automatically. The football/soccer World Cup is about to start with 64 Read More
Better email encryption for Outlook
Gpg4Win is one way to improve and expand Outlook’s poor encryption support. Google’s End-to-End got us thinking about how to Read More
Google's secure email system coming soon
Google’s End-to-End secure email tool is a great idea – will it force Microsoft to improve Outlook? Google has announced Read More
A faster way to copy pictures into Office documents
Another easy way to get images into Word and other Office documents. Last week we mentioned a faster way to Read More
Outlook Quick Steps in depth
A quicker way to do some regular tasks in Outlook. Quick Steps is that big block in the middle of Read More
Scanning from within Microsoft Word
Can you scan a picture or document directly into Word? Back in the day, you could click a button in Read More
Outlook Reply / Forward prefixes
Why RE and FW are the best options for email subjects When you reply or forward a message your email Read More
Problems with adding Outlook holidays
Outlook adds holidays from various countries but it’s not very clear or clever about it. Recently we’ve been looking at Read More