If you want to take the plunge to Solid State Drives, here are some comments from our experience. Mostly for portable computers SSD’s are usually installed on portable computers to take advantage of the lower power usage. That means your laptop can run longer on the same battery charge. ALWAYS get Solid State Drives on […]
Are there any advantages to getting an Solid State Drive (SSD) when running Microsoft Office? We have some advice from actual use. Solid State Drives are faster and power saving drives that are now less expensive and more available, but are they worth the trouble for Office users? YES — absolutely and definitely YES. We’ve […]
Microsoft celebrates 25 years of the software suite. Microsoft quietly celebrated the 25th anniversary of their Office suite on 1 August 2014 but were they being a little ‘previous’ in their celebrations? While Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Windows were around on 1 August 1989, were they sold as ‘Microsoft Office’ or only as separate […]
Microsoft confirms Office across devices, including Android. There has been plenty of unquestioning press reports from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2014. Statistics and commitments are quoted without much consideration for their worth. The good news is another commitment to Microsoft Office ‘cross platform’ meaning, for the moment, not just Windows and Macintosh. Here’s one […]
What is Delve and what does it mean for Microsoft Office? At the recent Microsoft conference there was mention of Microsoft Delve. But what the ?^%$ is ‘Delve’? It’s an enhanced search tool for your documents and online info. Not just standard Office documents but also videos, audio, links to web sites etc that are […]
A guide to getting more life and value from your printer. The Guardian has a nice little guide to maintaining an inkjet printer and saving money. We’ve never had good experiences with recycled ink or toner cartridges and have always found their quality to be poor. But others swear by recycled/refilled cartridges so if you […]
Join the list of testers for future versions of Microsoft Office. Microsoft has opened their waiting list for people to test future versions of Microsoft Office. Businesses and individuals can apply here http://prereleaseprograms-public.sharepoint.com/ There’s no guarantee you’ll be selected nor which version of Office you’ll be offered (Office for Windows, Mac, iPad. Maybe the upcoming […]
How can you tell which type of Office 2013 installation you have? Office 2013 comes with two quite different installation methods. Ideally there should be no difference between the two but the latest patch bug only affects some users with one type of installation called ‘Click to Run’. Since there’s some differences between the two […]
A simple solution to uninstall problems with Office 2013/Office 365. If you’re trying to uninstall Office 2013 you might get some unhelpful error messages like: Couldn’t uninstall OfficeWe’re sorry, Office couldn’t be uninstalled. Please try uninstalling Office again. ‘Try later’ isn’t a very useful suggestion. How much later? A minute, an hour, a day? Office […]
A look at the latest rumors for Office 15, Office Gemini and Windows 9. All manner of rumors about Microsoft Office with varying degrees of reasonableness. Here’s what’s on the rumor-vine at the moment. The next desktop version of Office ‘Office 16’ (wrongly called ’15’ in some reports). is said to be in ‘Technical Preview’ meaning […]
Behind the latest attempt to make Surface popular. Microsoft has announced Surface Pro 3, the latest incarnation of their tablet device. This time the focus is on replacing traditional laptops with something that has the power of a laptop but also portability of a tablet. There’s a larger 12-inch screen with various Intel Core options. […]
A new way to publish PowerPoint presentations with videos, web pages and quizzes. Office Mix is a way to turn a Powerpoint slide deck into what Microsoft calls an ‘interactive online lesson’. It’s squarely aimed at the educational market. The idea is to expand a PowerPoint presentation into a full online lesson containing: The presentation […]
Or survey gives results that suit those paying for the survey. It’s an old PR trick, put together some report or survey that will get lots of free publicity for the company that’s footing the bill. It’s easy copy for overworked journos so you can’t blame them for using them. Microsoft has done it themselves. […]
Don’t know why or how but a useful message appears in Word 2013. We were working away in a local café today, minding our own business when this appeared atop our Word 2013 document “Missing Proofing Tools The document contains text in Portuguese (Brazil) which isn’t being proofed. You may be able to get the […]
OneDrive for Business customers get a 4,000% increase. Microsoft continues to push their cloud services with a big jump in available storage in OneDrive for Business from a default of 25GB to 1 Terabyte. It’s a whopping increase intended to put pressure on Google, Dropbox, Box etc to compete or drop out of the race. […]
Discounts available for buying Office 2013 We’ve said it for years, when it comes to buying Microsoft Office never, ever, pay retail. There’s always discounts available for the same software and license. Sadly and probably deliberately there’s few discounts available for buying Office 2013, as opposed to renting or ‘subscribing’ to Office 365. Office 2013: […]
As promised, there’s now a cheaper Office 365 option. Microsoft has now released Office 365 Personal, a lower cost rental option for Office software. The ‘Personal’ subscription/rental option costs US$6.99 per month (US$69.99 a year) plus any state taxes. For that you get: Use of the current Office software for Windows or Mac on ONE […]
A smart move by Microsoft, but not a big deal. A clever move from Microsoft today, having their Office Online web sites added to the Google Chrome App Store. That’s led to excited headlines like “Microsoft Office hits Google’s Chrome Web Store” which will please Microsoft. Sure, you can now go to the Chrome App […]
Just to reassure you … Office-Watch.com has no problem from the HeartBleed bug. Our Office-Watch.com book store customers might be wondering if their online details are at risk from the Open SSL HeartBleed security gap. Many web sites with SSL have been quickly patching their server software, but not all need to. The Office-Watch.com online […]
We’re delighted to announce a brand new title from Office Watch. Office for iPad: The Complete Guide is now available. After the success of Office 2013: the real startup guide we decided to do something similar for the newest incarnation of Microsoft Office, released just over a week ago. Office for iPad has NO help […]
