Our famous guide to Office, saving money, install and new features. Now for Office 2013. Many of you figured it was coming and now it’s here … Office 2013: the real startup guide is available now. “Things you need to know that Microsoft won’t tell you: saving money, installing, configuring and
Make the famous WW2 poster yourself, and countless variations, in Microsoft Office. Make the famous WW2 poster yourself, and countless variations, in Microsoft Office Keep Calm with Microsoft Office is the latest in our series of practical ebooks for Microsoft Office users. We don’t just tell you how
Some common characters don’t need help from Autocorrect in Word. Our good friend and budding woodworker, Rose Vines adds her $0.02 to our AutoCorrect suggestions, especially for accented characters. This is something we’ve talked about in Office-Watch.com before, but is worth repeating. “There’s very simple built-in shortcuts for accented characters
Tips for making Autocorrect shortcuts that are easy to remember. Bob C writes: ” I use MS Word autocorrect to insert longer words of phrases that I’m too efficient.. OK,lazy.. to try to spell or type out completely, usually duplicating several leading consonants in the word or leading letters
Office lets you recover documents lost but it can be hard to choose the right one. For many versions of Office you’ve been able to recover open documents that haven’t been saved before a system crash, but the details aren’t obvious. If Windows or Office unexpectedly stops, there’s a chance
To search PDF’s on a 64-bit machine you need a separate download. The Adobe PDF Reader software isn’t enough on 64-bit Windows computers. If you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows (any release) you’ll probably find that Windows Search doesn’t find text inside PDF’s. Only file names are searched but
How to copy a table from Wikipedia to Word or Excel. Standard web tables can be copied from a web page to Word or Excel, but not many tables on Wikipedia pages. Office-Watch.com shows you how to do it. Even if you’re not copying from Wikipedia, we’ll show you some
A PDF editing mode arrives in Word 2013. For a long time people have asked for a way to edit PDF files – Word 2013 has it, sort of. It’s an understandable feature request even though it’s a bit like asking to edit a paper book or a stained glass
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
Finding a true Print Preview in Word 2010. Hank S. writes: “Is there any way to remove the approximately left half of the screen (File/Options display) so a print preview may be seen at full size? The new print pane is really handy, but there are times when I want
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 get table or other information from the net into Excel (or Word). Ever seen some data on the Internet and want to copy it for yourself? From small tables to large data chunks, there’s several ways to do it. Simple copying Almost any table or grid on a
Word’s spell check has a serious bug when it comes to symbols. Some time back we looked at the ‘Word ampersand mystery’, that’s where the spell-checker behaves strangely when there’s an ampersand in the text. It turns out to be a bigger problem involving many symbol characters. An ampersand at
At last, an easy way to find Word 2007 commands. We’re delighted to release a Word 2007 Command Finder to help you search through all 1,580 commands. Just like our Word 2010 Command Finder, we’ve taken the All Commands dialog and put them into a single, searchable list. This makes
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
What is there for Office users in the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire? Because there has been no mention of Office document compatibility on the new Kindles, we decided to take a look. There’s a little good news but things mostly stay the same. Document compatibility is important. Devices
Can you have a vertical ribbon in Microsoft Office? Is it possible to make the ribbon go vertically down the side of a document instead of horizontally? Back in Office 2003, it was possible to move the toolbar from the top row to any side of the Office window –
The Nook Color tablet/ereader supports an impressive list of Microsoft Office documents. Office Watch reader, Dale M writes: ” for the NookColor …. it reads natively, office documents in Office 2003 and in Office 2007 format. Works for Word, Excel and PowerPoint and maybe others. Also, PDFs display quite nicely
Word 2007/2010 Text Box is also in Excel and PowerPoint. We’ve talked a lot about the Text Box feature in Word 2007 and Word 2010. Both Excel 2007 / 2010 and PowerPoint 2007/2010 have Text Box features similar to Word. There’s no gallery to choose from, so you have to click
The full list of Word 2010 Text Box Gallery items Here’s the full list from the Text Box built-in gallery in Word 2010 and Word 2007. Insert Tab | Text | Text Box. Some people find it easier to see the entire list on a single page rather than scrolling up and
More tips and details about putting one Word document inside another. Following our article on Word linking and embedding in Office for Mere Mortals, here’s some additional tips and help to do things not allowing in the Word dialog boxes. Making it permanent For future reference you’ll want the main
How to make one Word document appear in another document by linking or embedding. A Word document can be placed inside another so it appears in the second document. This can be done as a ‘one-off’ insertion or a linking where changes to the source document automatically appear elsewhere. For
