Office lets you recover documents lost but it can be hard to choose the right one. For many versions of Office you’ve been able to recover open documents that haven’t been saved before a system crash, but the details aren’t obvious. If Windows or Office unexpectedly stops, there’s a chance that Office can recover the […]
To search PDF’s on a 64-bit machine you need a separate download. The Adobe PDF Reader software isn’t enough on 64-bit Windows computers. If you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows (any release) you’ll probably find that Windows Search doesn’t find text inside PDF’s. Only file names are searched but not the contents. That’s seems […]
How to copy a table from Wikipedia to Word or Excel. Standard web tables can be copied from a web page to Word or Excel, but not many tables on Wikipedia pages. Office-Watch.com shows you how to do it. Even if you’re not copying from Wikipedia, we’ll show you some useful Word skills. Tables on […]
Despite Amazon promises, Word DOC files aren’t read directly by the Kindle Fire. Amazon has been a little shifty when it comes to mentioning document compatibility for the Kindle and especially Kindle Fire. The official list includes two file types that DON’T work and omits an important file type that definitely DOES work. Amazon blurs […]
How to get a list of files in a folder into Microsoft Word. As long as there have been word processors, we’ve seen the question of how to get a list of files into a document. It should be simple bit it isn’t. Here’s how … You could write or get a Word macro to […]