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
Office 2003
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
Questionable Outlook holidays
Should Outlook be adding marketing holidays as well as real ones? The US Holidays list in Outlook 2013 adds some Read More
Get Office 2003 Service Pack 3 now
Best to get the Service Pack now. Despite the ‘retirement’ of Office 2003 and Windows XP, both programs continue to Read More
Outlook email basics and beyond
Outlook tricks you may not have considered for New, Reply, Reply All, Forward and Resend. New / Compose The simple Read More
What to do about Office 2003
Some advice on what to do about Office 2003 and Windows XP on the 8 April expiry. Office 2003 Office Read More
Incomprehensible PowerPoint advice
Why your PowerPoint slides should NOT make much sense … Over on Slate there’s a nice little slideshow about making Read More
Getty images in presentations
Can you use the free Getty images in your PowerPoint presentations? Getty Images, has announced that 35 million of their Read More
Windows substituting Arial font for Helvetica
Windows and Office gives you Arial font when you ask for Helvetica. We recently told you about the Helvetica font Read More
Capture full size images from video
Grab high-res pictures from movies to insert into Office documents or emails. We’ll show you how to capture or grab Read More
Helvetica's Godfather dies
Farewell, Mike Parker who brought Helvetica to the mainstream but alas not to Microsoft Windows or Office for Windows. Mike Read More
Microsoft Office - what's the latest update?
A list of Microsoft Office versions and their latest Service Packs. If you don’t have Office 2013, don’t worry, you’re Read More
OneDrive / SkyDrive and Office spelling
How to update Microsoft Office with the new name, OneDrive, and remove the old SkyDrive name. Recent versions of Office Read More
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
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
Office 2003 support countdown
What it really means for Office 2003 users plus a better countdown to the ‘end’ of Office 2003 and Windows 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