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
Windows RT for tablets won’t come with a completed Office RT. Microsoft has, stealthy, announced that they won’t be able to finish Office RT (the new version for ARM tablets) in time for the public release of Windows RT next month. Details are vague but we know that when Windows
Office 2013 with Windows 8 touch interface is disappointing. Last week Office-Watch.com had a chance to try out a Windows 8 tablet with Office 2013 and it was the most underwhelming Microsoft demo we’ve attended in 15 years. We were given Windows 8 tablets to try out, the Samsung Series
Traps, changes and subscriptions in Office 2013 prices. Microsoft has announced the pricing for Office 2013 and, as usual, the devil is in the detail. Subscriptions For a long time, Microsoft has wanted to sell Microsoft Office as a subscription rather than a one-time payment. With Office 2013 they are
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.
It makes sense when you look to the future. If you try Office 2013, you may have wondered why there’s a Full Screen view with no menus. Surely ribbon minimization was enough? Full screen mode is available by pressing a new button on the top right of a window. It
How we might be editing Office docs in the future, try it today. One of the more interesting Windows 8 apps is ‘Onenote MX’ an experimental version to see how Office might look in a world of Windows 8 apps, formerly known as Metro. Part of OneNote MX is the
Office 2013’s Click-to-Run install is good, so why not be honest about it? Up here at the Australian Edition of Microsoft TechEd it’s been a curious experience for many reasons that I won’t bore you with. But your Editor-in-Chief has just endured a Microsoft briefing on Click-To-Run – the primary
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
Office 2013 and Windows 8 is a bad combo if you want subtle mail alerts. Anyone trying Outlook 2013 Preview on Windows 8 is in for an unpleasant surprise – mail Desktop Alerts have changed and not for the better. In Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 there are mail desktop
A temporary copy of Office 2013 on a computer. The concept of ‘Office on Demand’ started with Office 2010 (the Starter edition and Office to Go) but is being expanded in Office 2013 for subscription customers. Office on Demand uses ‘Click to Run’ technology to install Office directly from the
Microsoft opens an Office store for Office 2013 For a peek into the future, check out the Office Store now in beta. Office 2013 has a new form of plug-in based on HTML5 and web technologies with the Office Store intended as a ‘one stop’ place to get these addons.
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
The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. In the promotional material for the new service it’s called Outlook.com 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 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
Outlook 2013 takes a backward step in readability. Grab a ruler and it’s easy to see how Microsoft has wasted screen space with Outlook 2013. The message view with preview turned off uses about 20% more vertical space than Outlook 2007 – That means less messages visible on the screen
Unread messages view returns in Outlook 2013. Viewing ‘Unread mails only’ has returned as a classic ‘flip flop’ from Microsoft. Outlook 2010 dropped the ‘Unread messages’ view because Microsoft assured us their testing showed that people didn’t want or use that feature. Really? People didn’t want to see just unread
What you need to know about Office 2013 and getting the preview. Office 2013 is now available for public preview. As you’d expect Office-Watch.com has been and will be looking at Office 2013 in detail. We don’t rely on the glib promises and cozy half-truths sent out by Microsoft. Instead
All Office 2013 programs have a full screen mode. Up in the top right corner of Office 2013 programs is a useful new button – Full Screen Mode. Word already has a full screen mode just for reading but this is different. The new full screen mode works in all
A PDF editing mode arrives in Word 2013. For a long time people have asked for a way to edit PDF files – Word 2013 has it, sort of. It’s an understandable feature request even though it’s a bit like asking to edit a paper book or a stained glass
