Picture problems in Office
How to find your pictures to insert into an Office document. Even a simple thing like adding a picture to Read More
Office 2002
Dropbox Alerts in Outlook
Get Outlook to show changes in Dropbox folders Dropbox has one excellent feature, the ‘Events’ view that lists files added, Read More
Get alerts from Outlook RSS feeds
How to get a message when certain RSS feeds are updated As you probably know, it’s possible to get an Read More
Attack of the colons
2014 looks like the year of long movie titles with colons – here’s how to save yourself some typing. More Read More
CAPS Lock strike succeeds
An industrial dispute involving CAPS has ended. One of the most interesting industrial disputes of 2013 has now ended with Read More
Line and Paragraph numbering in Word
How to number lines and paragraphs in Word. When you’re discussing a speech or other document ‘in progress’ you might Read More
Exclusion dictionary - follow-up
Readers suggest some more uses for the Word/Office exclusion dictionary. As Office-Watch.com explained recently, the Office Exclusion dictionary can be Read More
Custom Dictionary shoot-out
What wins in a conflict between custom and exclusion dictionaries? In Office-Watch.com we’ve talked about the custom dictionary (which lets Read More
Removing words from the Word dictionary
Why and How to remove words from the main Microsoft Office dictionary. Sometimes the supplied Office dictionary has words you Read More
Putting Health Data into Excel
Examine US public health data in Excel. One of the great things about the recent Internet is the availability of Read More
Import Best Buy prices into Excel
An example of web scraping from BestBuy.com into Excel. We’ve already talked about getting prices from the Amazon.com web site Read More
Amazon price scraping to Excel
How to check Amazon product prices automatically in Excel. With Black Friday coming in the USA, it’s time to carefully Read More
Export / Import your Outlook Signatures
Where are Outlook email signatures stored and how to copy them to another computer There’s no import/export option for Outlook Read More
Copying images from the web
How to copy an image from the web into an Office document. Getting an image from your web browser to Read More
Word needs a Latin dictionary
The Vatican’s latest mistake can be blamed on Microsoft … if you try hard enough. A good laugh can be Read More
How precise is Excel?
How accurate is Excel compared to universal needs. On page 45 of the Sept/Oct 2013 Mental Floss magazine is a Read More
Kiosk Assistant
A guard against stuck Kiosk presentations in PowerPoint. One problem with PowerPoint’s Kiosk mode is a slide that won’t advance Read More
Editing Office documents with Evernote
Evernote for Android now comes with the ability to edit Office documents. Our favorite notemaking system, Evernote, now has the Read More
PowerPoint Photo Album
A fast way to add many photos to a presentation. Since at least PowerPoint 2003, there’s been a Photo Album Read More
iPhone blocked spellings in Word
Does Microsoft have a list of blocked words like Apple does on the iPhone? One of the more amazing examples Read More