No details on an update to Office for iPhone. Microsoft has pushed out an update to Office for iPhone and it achieves a new low in the sad history of updates to Office software. Office-Watch.com is accustomed to Microsoft updates with poor documentation and we’ve written about them for many years. But no Office update […]
How accurate is Excel compared to universal needs. On page 45 of the Sept/Oct 2013 Mental Floss magazine is a small item ‘Why do we care so much about the digits if Pi’ which includes this trivia: “The computers that keep the International Space Station humming round off pi at a crude 16 digits. When […]
An online tool from MIT helps you see what the government can see. The Media Lab at MIT has an online service which shows how revealing ‘metadata’ or ‘identifiers’ collected by the US government can really be. Microsoft, the US government and others defending the controversial PRISM program have been relying on the subtle difference […]
Evernote for Android now comes with the ability to edit Office documents. Our favorite notemaking system, Evernote, now has the ability to edit Office documents within their Android version. Yes – we very much prefer Evernote over Office Onenote. Evernote runs very well, syncs seamlessly and completely across all popular platforms and devices. Evernote has […]
A quick overview of Word on Android phones. You can open and view documents in either docx or doc format but will only edit docx documents. If you open a .doc file, press the menu button and Save As to the newer format. When you open a document you’re first in a view only mode. […]