Choosing and mixing cloud storage options for file send and sync. Office-Watch.com received some great feedback after our features on sharing files with Dropbox or Skydrive. Some readers pointed out other cloud storage services like BOX which offers 10GB free and has real-time updates on downloads etc. Strangely, no-one mentioned
How to recover deleted files in OneDrive. Skydrive/OneDrive retains deleted files for 30 days or until the Recycle Bin exceeds 10% of your allowed storage space. This feature works much the same way as the Recycle Bin in Windows and it’s called ‘Recycle Bin’ down on the bottom left of
A simple guide to sending files via Skydrive / OneDrive There are many ways to send files that are too big for email (usually over 20MB). In this article we’ll look at how to do that with Skydrive. Skydrive, soon to be called, OneDrive is Microsoft’s public cloud storage service.
It’s not just Skydrive getting a rename … ZDNET is reporting a possible renaming of Microsoft Office’s cloud services to ‘Office Online’. In this scenario Office Web Apps would become Office Online comprising Word Online, Excel Online, PowerPoint Online, OneNoteOnline and Office Online templates. This makes sense because the word
Microsoft’s online storage service gets a court mandated name change. Last year, Microsoft lost a court case over the name ‘SkyDrive’ so now it’s being renamed ‘OneDrive‘. SkyDrive will be called OneDrive SkyDrive Pro becomes OneDrive for Business Hopefully the switchover will be seamless for users like those who save
Collaboration features now in Office Web Apps plus other changes Microsoft has rolled out an update to Office Web Apps – the browser based version of Office available via Skydrive and Office 365. These changes are now available free from Office.com for all comers (‘free’ users and those with paid
How to copy an image from the web into an Office document. Getting an image from your web browser to a Word document is quite easy, though easier with some browsers than others. In your browser, right-click over the image you want and look at the options available. At the
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
Does Microsoft have a list of blocked words like Apple does on the iPhone? One of the more amazing examples of over-control by a software maker is the news that Apple has a ‘Kill List’ of words that it won’t spell-check. It seems that iOS v6 devices have a list
How to rid yourself of the spam ‘Dr Oz.’ emails since Outlook can’t do it. The latest plague on Outlook Inboxes are ‘Dr Oz News’ emails. It truly is a plague too; here’s our unfiltered Outlook Inbox showing nothing else! Maybe you’re lucky enough that an ISP or mail host
There’s SUM and then there are all the useful SUM variations to choose from. Excel’s SUM() function is probably the first one we learn but there’s a lot more to it than simply clicking on the button to add up a list of numbers. In this article we’ll look at
The new Wikidata site should provide hours of Excel ‘fun’. The WikiMedia foundation, operators of Wikipedia among others, is developing a new site called Wikidata. It will be a home for public ‘structured data’ in other words, lists. There are plenty of lists already in Wikipedia. Wikidata will link with
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
Google buys QuickOffice in an effort to keep up with Microsoft’s move into tablets with Office. Google has announced the purchase of QuickOffice for the traditional amount in these situations ie ‘undisclosed’. To understand why, you need a summary of the three main players. QuickOffice has a set of well
Reports that Office for iPad and even Android are due later this year. Boy Genius Report is reporting that Microsoft will release versions of Microsoft Office for both Apple iPad’s and Android devices. By this rumor, Redmond is aiming for a November 2012 release date. This would put it in
How private is your cloud data from legal copying? The issues and concerns about the law, privacy and cloud storage. In this article we’ll try to set out some of the legal issues surrounding cloud storage. We’ll focus on the legal side, not the technical possibilities, and give links to
Some more cloud privacy problems to consider … In preparing our article about privacy law and the cloud some other possible privacy breaches came to our attention. Cloud storage can move Let’s say you setup a cloud service and ensure that the servers are located in a place that’s acceptable
Some comments and official statements from Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Here’s some collected statements and legalese from some of the major players in the cloud market. What Microsoft says about the Patriot Act The UK launch of Office 365, Microsoft’s managing director for the UK made it clear that neither
How to use the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s Skydrive. Skydrive from Microsoft has been around for some time, but now they’ve finally released software to synchronize the cloud storage with your PC and some other devices. It’s the Microsoft version of Google’s new Drive service. Both offer browser based editing
If you get Office 365, should you subscribe or buy. An in-depth look at whether the Office 365 software subscription is worth considering. Office 365 comes with the option to rent Office 2010 software – is that a good choice? For the most part, Office 365 is a collection of
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download, if you want to be a guinea pig for Microsoft. Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download, if you want to be a guinea pig for Microsoft. The major update to Office 2010 can be
Office 365 is available now – is it anything really new? Office 365 is the latest incarnation of the Microsoft Office family and is now publicly available. It isn’t anything new from a technical point of view. Office 365 is a marketing move to bundle online and software services into
Gmail hack from China has lessons for everyone and there’s one simple thing you can do to protect yourself. The latest attack on Gmail accounts could happen to anyone with any online email account – here’s how to avoid being hacked with one simple trick that will save you from
There’s an “Office Web Apps” listing on the Chrome browser application store – is it a trap? There are questions about an “Office Web Apps” applications available on the Google Chrome web store. The Chrome web store is a place to get apps that can run inside your Chrome browser.