Microsoft Word’s ‘Pickup where you left off’ or ‘Welcome back’ message is different from the Shift+F5 shortcut. All the recent talk about the ‘Pickup where you left off’ feature in Word had a few Office-Watch.com readers asking how it’s different from the long-standing GoBack shortcut in Word – Shift + F5. GoBack Shift + F5 […]
Back in 2002 I wrote an Access Archon article dealing with reference issues, among them the problem of certain references being upgraded when a database is opened in a higher version of Access, but not downgraded when it is again opened in a lower version. You might think that over the last 16 years Microsoft […]
Document Properties is one of those long-standing parts of Office that is worth another look. It can be quite useful and not always in the ways that Microsoft intends. At first, document properties looks like a fixed and rigid feature with limited use. However it can be used in much wider and creative ways. Any […]
WinBeta is reporting that emails are going out to people who qualify for the next step in Office software testing. This marks a major step in the progress to yet another version of Office. A few months ago Microsoft asked people to ‘indicate interest’. Now they appear to have culled those requests and sent emails […]
Microsoft has increased the maximum size for a single file on OneDrive to 10GB. That’s a sensible change since Office 365 customers now have a Terabyte (1,000GB) available online. The 10GB limit applies to files transferred via the desktop or mobile apps. Uploads via web browser seem to remain limited to 2GB (we’re inferring from […]