If you can’t use Windows Remote Desktop there are other choices. Remote Desktop works well for compatible Windows computers on the same local network. Beyond that there are other choices, they usually don’t work as well as Remote Desktop but are still good. Live Mesh If you want to reach
How to get detailed SuperPAC donation and spending information into Excel. Today the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) is receiving and publishing details of the controversial SuperPAC’s showing who has donated and what they spent money on. It’s a good and timely example of how you can get information from
The Office 15 Technical Preview has begun. And so it begins …. Microsoft has started testing the next version of Office (called ‘Office 15’ for the moment) to a small group of people outside the company. They aren’t saying much else at this stage except the usual platitudes that have
Despite Amazon promises, Word DOC files aren’t read directly by the Kindle Fire. Amazon has been a little shifty when it comes to mentioning document compatibility for the Kindle and especially Kindle Fire. The official list includes two file types that DON’T work and omits an important file type that
How to get a list of files in a folder into Microsoft Word. As long as there have been word processors, we’ve seen the question of how to get a list of files into a document. It should be simple bit it isn’t. Here’s how … You could write or
How can you get more languages for Office – or maybe you already have them? Following our look at Which languages come with Office in the last issue we received quite a few questions from Office Watch readers about language support in Office; this and related articles will attempt to
For Office 2010 you can buy additional language packs, if necessary. Often they are available for free. For Office 2010 you can buy additional language packs, if necessary. Often they are available for free. We say if necessary because you might not need to buy anything. Office 2010 is sold
When you buy Microsoft Office, what language proofing tools do you get ‘in the box’? Each language version of Office sold is called a ‘localized version’ by Microsoft. The most common is the ‘English’ version of Office sold in North America, UK, Australia, New Zealand and many other places. Though,
The details (and lack of) about add-on languages for Office 2010. You can buy additional languages (proofing and interface) for Office 2010, however details are sadly lacking. Getting Office language packs was once a tiresome and difficult process. The packs were sold, at high prices, by a third-party company. They
Why would Microsoft make Office for iPad? It’s being reported that Microsoft is working on an iPad version of Microsoft Office – This is hardly surprising, the iPad’s have become a very popular platform. By contrast, Windows Tablets have hardly taken the world by storm. For all the chest-thumping from
There is a possibility of getting a replacement Product Key from Microsoft. A Knowledge Base article from Microsoft suggests they can help recover a lost Office Product Key. If you’re trying to install Microsoft Office, perhaps on a replacement computer, you need installation disk and also the Product Key. That’s
Why can’t you get the right key from a pre-installed copy of Office? Buying a pre-installed copy of Microsoft Office has some pitfalls and one of them is trouble recovering the Product Key. If you’ve lost your copy of the Office Product Key (essential for installing Office) then usually you
When you buy Office there are several languages you can use with your documents. Office has two levels of language support. There’s the language used on the menus, ribbon and dialog (called ‘Language Interface’) and then there are the languages supported in documents by the spell checker, grammar analysis and
What to do about the ‘Duqu’ malware that can be sent via Word documents. There’s plenty of noise but little hard facts so far about the Duqu malware attack. At the time of writing all we know is: There’s a new Windows exploit that the ‘Duqu’ malware uses to
How to use Apple’s iCloud with your Office documents. iCloud is the new Apple service which lets you easily synchronize files between IPad / iPhone and desktop computers, here’s how it works. Did we say ‘easily’? More correct to say ‘a bit easier’. iCloud is a slightly better way to
The Comic Sans haters have risen again as a TV show is plastered with the hated Comic Sans font Stephen Fry’s latest TV show uses Comic Sans as its primary font, so the haters of the common font have risen in protest. We’ve talked about Comic Sans before. It’s not
Microsoft has given reporters a brief ‘hands on’ look at Windows 8 – what does it mean for Office users? Windows 8 will have two interfaces – a traditional mouse/keyboard system similar to Windows 7/Vista/XP plus ‘Metro’. Metro is a ‘grown up’ version of the tiles system seen on new
From: OfficeRecovery Innovative Online Data Recovery Technology Allows Users to Repair Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access Files from Web Browsers Faster Than Ever Mountain View, CA, September 2011 – OfficeRecovery, a long-standing leader in corrupted data repair technologies, has announced a breakthrough cloud-based online service that cuts significantly the
We had a great time on Australia’s Gold Coast for Microsoft’s annual Aussie nerd-fest. Had a great time at TechEd 2011 on Australia’s Gold Coast. For Office users all the talk at this year’s event was Office 365. Plenty of sessions for organizations on how to migrate in whole or
How to copy your Office documents onto ebook readers like the Kindle, Nook etc. Click here for Chalkboard Effect in Word – apologies for the wrong link … The rise of ebooks means there’s more interest in converting documents into formats that the devices can read – we’ll show you how
‘Gmail man’ is Microsoft latest promotional tool – is it really that great? Lots of people are getting excited about Microsoft’s Gmail Man video which is now doing the rounds. The video (allegedly only for internal Microsoft use) is a humorous attempt to denigrate Gmail in favor of Microsoft’s Office
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
Where is the Select All command and why you don’t need to find it. “As software changes so do the tool bars. A simple change for the location of the “select all” button is frustrating’ – Anthony C. We assume Anthony is asking about the ribbon in Office 2007 and
