Is Journal in Outlook of any use to you? You might have noticed the Journal part of Outlook and wondered what it’s all about. Possibly you’ve clicked on Journal and got no further than this dialog: In this article we’ll look at Journal and help you decide if it might
There’s many ways you can arrange your Inbox in Outlook. Whenever we look at the Outlook setup used by other people, two things are striking. One is that few people change the default layout provided by Microsoft to something that suits them. We’ll look at that another time. The other
Do the claims from Facebook make any sense? Wayne B writes: ” Microsoft claiming a billion users is a bit of a stretch, but not as much as we might think. Facebook says they have over a billion users and there are many people with a PC not on Facebook,
Microsoft changes the Office compatibility for Windows 8 but doesn’t explain why, so we do. Microsoft has changed the Windows 8 compatibility statement for Microsoft Office versions from the promises during the Windows 8 Preview. Our new book is Windows 8 for Microsoft Office users with the stuff you need
A new ebook from Office Watch, more detail, less hype. We’re delighted to announce a brand new title from Office Watch. Windows 8 for Microsoft Office users is now available. After the success of Office 2010: the real startup guide we decided to do something similar for Windows 8. Windows
How often can you reinstall Microsoft Office? Steve P asks … “Love the articles, and I’ve learnt lots from them. I’ve purchased Office 2010 Home & Student (in the UK) for installation on WinXP SP3, and whilst I know about the time limit between installation & activation, there seems to
Hard to believe Microsoft’s statement that Office has a billion users. Microsoft has been boasting this week about the billion users of Microsoft Office. Over 15 years of listening to Microsoft statistics we’re automatically suspicious of any such number, especially when the speaker can’t give any justification for the number.
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
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
Get the full medal tally into Excel for your own analysis. We close our Olympics coverage (sorry “Quadrennial Corporate-sponsored Rings-based Sporting Event”) with links to some looks at the medal tally. The Guardian continued their data analysis of the medal wins. In the end they produced a simple interactive which
Some alternative views of the Olympic medal count and how to Thanks to all the readers who dropped us a note about our article on the London 2012 Olympics calendar and how to overlay it in Outlook. While many are using it to schedule their TV viewing, others use
How to connect Outlook software to Outlook.com With the announcement of Outlook.com as a replacement for Hotmail there was one glaring omission – how to sync with Outlook software. Now we know why – the existing Hotmail connector to Outlook software does work but hasn’t been updated yet. So the
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
How to schedule your Olympic viewing with Outlook. At the risk of attracting the attention of the, now infamous, Olympic Branding Police … we’d like to give you some Olympic related tips for Outlook and Office users. With so many events being broadcast live, scheduling your time isn’t going to
A fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks, Organizing Outlook Email, for Outlook 2010 We’re delighted to announce a fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks Organizing Outlook Email for Outlook 2010 We’ll take you through all the email management features available
How to change the font and font size of Comment balloons in Word Recently we wrote about the Word Comments feature and how it can be used even for a solo author. The standard comments font is Calibri 10pt but that can be changed by changing the style linked to
The Office 2010 Starter edition won’t continue for Office 2013 but not for the reason Microsoft says. The Office 2010 Starter Edition, included with some new computers, won’t be returning for Office 2013. According to Microsoft the Starter Edition isn’t compatible with Windows 8 so they can’t have an Office
Find the size of your Outlook data files, then don’t worry about it. Checking the size of your Outlook data files is pretty easy, you can also find out which folders are taking up space. In any version of Outlook (we checked Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003) right-click
Is there a security risk when you forward or reply to a message? A reader writes: “if you forward the message (we’re supposed to forward SPAM messages to a particular internal mailbox for analysis, etc.) that fetches the image and reveals the IP and other information sent by the web
‘Click here to download images’ in Outlook may seem like a nuisance but it’s there for a good reason Why does Outlook prompt you to download images with messages – instead of just getting them? The ‘Click here to download images’ may seem like a nuisance but it’s there for
About the special ‘Hidden info’ image included in Office for Mere Mortals. As part of an article on Outlook security Office-Watch.com made a special ‘image’ that displays, within an email, some system information sent by Outlook to the Internet. This image was included in Office for Mere Mortals for Monday
Make Outlook trap the latest ATT bogus messages, even if you’re an ATT customer. Every once in a while, spammers make a new email that bypasses even the High junk email setting in Outlook. When that happens you need to setup your own rule to remove them, until Microsoft’s spam
How to change the Windows Send to email option to something less annoying and more directly useful. For a long time Windows has an option to select a file in Explorer and email it. Right-click on a file, choose ‘Send to’ then one from the list of options. The exact
