A free way to show Microsoft Office help in other languages Office Screentips is a way to show tooltips for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other programs. This free addon from Microsoft doesn’t interfere with how the programs work or the wording of the tabs and ribbons. Only the tooltips
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
Get Outlook to show changes in Dropbox folders Dropbox has one excellent feature, the ‘Events’ view that lists files added, deleted or modified. You can use that feature to get custom Outlook alerts when certain things happen to your Dropbox account, like when a file is added to a shared
How to get a message when certain RSS feeds are updated As you probably know, it’s possible to get an alert or an action when certain email messages arrive into Outlook using the Rules feature. Office-Watch.com shows how to do the same thing for an RSS feed. It will let
A simple guide to sending files via Dropbox. There are many ways to send files that are too big for email (usually over 20MB). In this article we’ll look at how to do that with Dropbox either sending a ‘one-off’ file or regularly exchanging files with someone else. Dropbox is very
An email pretending to be ‘Outlook settings’ will actually lock up your data until you pay a fee – aka ransom. The tricks to separate you from your money and computer files continue to get more elaborate and this latest brazen effort from Russian scammers shows. For the last few
Keep your calendar clear by hiding private appointments like reminders to take medicine. Sometimes we have appointments or events that we want to keep private or at least hide from the regular calendar views. You can have appointments in Outlook which will pop-up reminders when necessary but not show up
With Windows 8.1 for Surface RT comes a new Outlook – what’s it like? If you have a Surface RT device then there’s an update to Windows 8.1 available* and within that is a new Office program – Outlook RT. The ‘RT’ versions of Office programs look much like the
Office 365 and Exchange Online users get double mailbox size for no extra charge. Microsoft has announced a major increase in the mailbox size for Office 365 / Exchange Online customers. For most people this means their mailbox can now grow past 25GB to 50GB. That’s a lot of space
There’s no nice way to say it – this month’s Office 2013 update is, in military speak, ‘Fubar’ With the usual collection of security patches this month, Microsoft released an update to Office 2013 with various fixes and adding one major bug that amazingly managed to get through testing. The
An online tool from MIT helps you see what the government can see. The Media Lab at MIT has an online service which shows how revealing ‘metadata’ or ‘identifiers’ collected by the US government can really be. Microsoft, the US government and others defending the controversial PRISM program have been
There’s several spam checks of incoming email, which one is working for you. As we’ve mentioned before in Office-Watch.com, there’s usually more than one anti-spam filter on incoming messages. If those filter don’t work or are too aggressive you might miss out of messages you want to see. Typically an
It’s reassuring to see the experts get it wrong. One of the very minor sub-plots in the story of the Ballmer resignation came from ValleyWag. Steve Ballmer sent a company-wide email announcing his retirement plans. The Managing Director of Microsoft Research, Roy Levin, replied from his Windows Phone. Only his
Microsoft’s official response to the latest news about their work with the NSA and FBI. Office-Watch.com has posed a series of specific questions to Microsoft which we hope will get a response in the next few days. In the meantime here’s their official response to the Guardian article about Microsoft’s
New disclosures about how Microsoft actively collaborates with the NSA to infiltrate Skydrive and encrypted messages on a large scale. The Guardian newspaper today has damaging revelations about how Microsoft had gone beyond simply responding to specific requests from the US government for information on individuals using Outlook.com, Skydrive and other
An Office-Watch.com reader with an excellent idea for Outlook rules and there’s a part workaround available now. Larry D saw our article on limitations in Outlook Rules and came up with a great idea: ” I think the most important function this feature could offer (which it doesn’t) would be,
Why doesn’t Outlook find the messages you expect? Getting an Outlook rule to work with an incoming message can be an exercise in frustration because the on-screen instructions aren’t very clear. Outlook rules let you automate the process of managing incoming messages. For example, tagging or moving messages from a
How to rid yourself of the spam ‘Dr Oz.’ emails since Outlook can’t do it. The latest plague on Outlook Inboxes are ‘Dr Oz News’ emails. It truly is a plague too; here’s our unfiltered Outlook Inbox showing nothing else! Maybe you’re lucky enough that an ISP or mail host
The ‘secret’ is out, Outlook is coming to Windows RT tablets. Windows RT tablets, like Microsoft’s Surface, are to get proper Outlook software later this year. The news was announced by Microsoft in a blog post but the work on Outlook RT had been an open secret for months. Windows
An email sent to Gmail appears blank to the receiver with only a .p7m file – why? If you send your emails with a digital signature they might appear ‘blank’ to a Gmail receiver … something like this: The above message had HTML text in the message body but neither
Why does Outlook 2013 ‘hang’/ stop working when you try to send an email with a digital signature? You install a digital certificate to sign your emails, but when you try sending a signed message … Outlook 2013 totally ‘hangs’, it stops working. What’s going on? There’s a bug in
Really obvious spam/phishing messages not caught by Microsoft’s spam filters. You’d think that a very short message with only a web link that has an IP number not domain name would go straight to the Junk Email folder but no. On our test machines (Exchange Server and Outlook 2013 with
StartSSl offers free digital certificates for your Outlook email – here’s how to get yours Email digital signatures aren’t used a lot which is a shame because they are very useful. Signed emails are verified to come from you while it’s possible to encrypt your messages (to prevent anyone else
Control your Facebook photo as displayed to others via Outlook. Are you aware that your Facebook photo shows up for anyone with Outlook? We ask because at Office-Watch.com we see a lot of readers emails and some of the photos make us wonder is the sender realizes the Facebook shot
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