How to manage email in Outlook with your own domain name. Rick J writes “I have my own domain name and I want to make email accounts for me and family using it. What’s the best option for me?”. Firstly, congratulations on making the switch to a permanent email address.
Get your Outlook data to show up with Google services and vice-versa. Using gSyncit you can keep a copy of your Outlook contacts, calendar, tasks and notes in your Google account. Why would you want to do that? Once your Outlook info is syncd with online storage it’s available to
How to get your Outlook data on multiple computers and more. Temple F writes: “I would like to clone my current Outlook file (emails, contacts, calendar, tasks, settings) over to a 2nd and possibly 3rd PC. I don’t believe I’ve seen any reviews on some of the complete add-ins for
Use Outlook to track delivery of online orders from Ebay, Amazon or other retailers. Outlook can be easily used to track online orders from Ebay, Amazon to make sure they arrive. When you’re ordering a lot of items online it’s easy to overlook one. Outlook can pop-up a reminder for
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
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,
Excel’s method of converting measurements is good but could be so much better. Once you start looking into the CONVERT function in Excel, you realize that it’s really an incomplete function. Excel has been around for a long time and yet this important feature has lapses that would make it
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
A tool for syncing your Outlook data with online services. gSyncit is an option for pushing your Outlook data, calendar, contacts, tasks and notes to online services. This is important because it lets you access that Outlook info on other devices like the iPhone or Android smartphones with updates copied
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
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
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 –
How you can protect yourself against mail being intercepted by a fake domain The Godai Group have made a big splash with their report on ‘doppleganger domains’ that can spy on emails to and from an organization, but what can Outlook users do about it? What is a Doppleganger domain?
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
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
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
Some anti-spam settings to avoid in Outlook We spend a lot of time writing about Outlook settings and how to use them. It occurred to us that there are settings we don’t talk about because they are NOT good and best avoided. In the past we looked at Navigation Buttons.
One important but hidden feature in Outlook will let you see more and faster. Outlook has a lot of different aspects; email, calendar, contacts etc and we see many people switching between them, waiting for different views to load …. and they don’t have to. If you click on a
Put more useful navigation options on the Outlook screen. The default Outlook Navigation pane isn’t meant for you, it’s intended for absolute beginners to the program and to reduce the number of support calls. Once you’ve started to use Outlook, it’s time to change the way it looks to suit
Navigation Buttons take up valuable space you can better use in Outlook – here’s how. The navigation buttons are the ones on the left of Outlook ‘Mail’ ‘Calendar’ ‘Contacts’ etc. They are big, space gobbling buttons designed for new Outlook users – once you’re past the very basics there’s better
