The free browser version of Office is worth trying out. Office Web Apps are the online, browser based versions of the Microsoft Office programs. There are versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that can run in a web browser wherever you are and are totally free. The Web Apps
A nice and informative PowerPoint presentation we made a little smaller and safer. A lovely PowerPoint presentation arrived in our Inbox (thanks Peter!) which we’ve decided to share with Office-Watch.com readers. It’s a series of day and night photos of Earth from space taken by Sunita Williams called ‘Blue Beauty’.
Microsoft isn’t really cutting the prices of Office for Mac – it just looks that way. We’ve been intrigued to see press reports of Microsoft ‘cutting’ the prices on Office 2011 for Mac. It looks that way at first glance but, as usual, a closer look shows that Office 2011
Improved features related to inserting audio clips in PowerPoint 2010. Some of the features related to inserting audio clips have been improved in PowerPoint 2010. You can add an audio clip from files on your computer or the Clip Art task pane. You can also record your own audio to
A new spam email, ignored by Outlook’s spam filter, is supposed to have a spreadsheet file for Excel. A new spam email is arriving in Inboxes, trying to trick Excel users into opening it. This email isn’t detected by the Outlook 2007/2010 spam filter (latest update and configured to ‘High’)
In Word 2010 there is a ‘version’ feature but it’s quite different from the feature of the same name in Word 97 to Word 2007. In Word 2010 there is a ‘version’ feature but it’s quite different from the feature of the same name in Word 97 to Word 2007.
Office-Watch.com titles are now available on the Kindle We’re delighted to announce that three Office-Watch.com titles are now available on the Kindle. You can now get our popular Office-Watch.com ebooks to read in the Kindle format – either on a Kindle device or on a PC, Mac, iPad or even
Live Sync is a useful tool for sharing files and Office settings between different computers. As Office-Watch.com regulars may know, we’ve been big fans of Microsoft Live Mesh – a beta service to synchronize files and remotely access computers. Live Mesh was great and the underlying technology revealed some enticing
Text effects in Word 2010 have wide range of options like applying shadow, reflection or glow to transform the appearance of text and give it an altogether new look. Text effects in Word 2010 have wide range of options like applying shadow, reflection or glow to transform the appearance of
Making ordinary texts look extraordinary has been possible for many versions of Word. Alas, the features can make ordinary text look awful – if you’re not careful. Making ordinary texts look extraordinary has been possible for many versions of Word. Alas, the features can make ordinary text look awful –
Some new image changing options in Office 2010. Generally speaking it’s better to make changes to an image before importing it into an Office document (document, spreadsheet or presentation). There even the Microsoft Picture Manager provided with Office to let you do that, as well as many other photo editing
Office 2007 and Office 2010 has tools to edit photos and pictures in your document. Office 2007 and Office 2010 has tools to edit photos and pictures in your document. In olden days (ie 10 years ago) to put an image into a document you had to carefully edit the
Looking for 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar calendar info? … click here Outlook’s Internet Calendar feature can be used to follow the round ball game or interesting things. I don’t know about you, but my football/soccer gene was removed at birth. The whole World Cup event is a mystery to
There has been a rush of fake emails that are being missed by Outlook Junk email filters even in Outlook 2010 with the latest updates. All of the messages look very like real messages and appear to come from legitimate companies. Often the only way to quickly pick the fake
Can Office 2010 read documents made in earlier versions of MS Office – yes, of course. Kellye H writes: “The only version of Microsoft Office for Home and Students at Best Buy is 2010. Can the older programs, since that is what most have, read the new one? I have
How to write an email now and send it later. For many versions of Outlook you’ve been able to write an email now but delay sending it until a later time. Like many things with Outlook, there are several catches to the supposedly simple feature. Why delay sending a message?
Type in many languages from one keyboard. Here’s how you can type in other languages using a single keyboard into any Window program including Microsoft Office. Google has added a virtual keyboard to its search pages. On some search pages like google.co.th and google.ru you can now click on a
Make a base for all your slides, then later global changes are easy. We’ve seen too many people making the same change to slide after slide when they could have done it in a few seconds with some preparation. Before you do anything on a presentation – check out the
The fast way to make a photo album presentation in Powerpoint 2007 and 2010. Last year, Office for Mere Mortals, covered making a photo album in several versions of Powerpoint. In PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010 there’s a quicker way – go to the Insert tab and choose Photo Album.
Moving and counting rows or columns Navigation Excel has some clever keyboard shortcuts to let you move to the extremes of your worksheet. ‘Extremes’ doesn’t mean the absolute end of the worksheet, rather the end of the current block of filled or unfilled cells. Hold down the Ctrl key and
Wrapping up our look at Master Documents in Word with some extra tips. We’ve been looking at Master Documents in Word and here’s some extra tips to help you get the most from this once feared Word feature that’s come good … · Feature like Page number, Header and
Don’t be afraid – Word’s Master Documents is stable and worth using. The term ‘Master Document’ may cause many to scorn if not outright panic especially those who have been using Word 97 or 2000 version. The most common problem which people faced earlier was the corruption of master documents
We bring together earlier articles to create a quick and simple Excel data analysis. by David Goodmanson In the final article of this series we will bring together what we have learnt in earlier articles to create a data analysis. We started with Average / Mean options in Excel then
Excel 2007 and 2010 have a quick way to see basic stats on a list of numbers. If you only need some basic details about a list of numbers, there’s no need to use Excel formulas or the Descriptive Statistics feature. In Excel 2003 you can select two or more
