How to check Amazon product prices automatically in Excel. With Black Friday coming in the USA, it’s time to carefully check prices and look out for bargains. Ideally get those prices automatically and put them into Excel for comparison. To do that for Amazon means ‘scraping’ or trying to grab
Collaboration features now in Office Web Apps plus other changes Microsoft has rolled out an update to Office Web Apps – the browser based version of Office available via Skydrive and Office 365. These changes are now available free from Office.com for all comers (‘free’ users and those with paid
Keep your calendar clear by hiding private appointments like reminders to take medicine. Sometimes we have appointments or events that we want to keep private or at least hide from the regular calendar views. You can have appointments in Outlook which will pop-up reminders when necessary but not show up
Another arrow is thrust right into Microsoft Office. Google continues its moves against Microsoft Office with the announcement that the next version of Android will include their direct rival for Office. Android 4.4 aka ‘KitKat’ will include QuickOffice which lets you create and edit Microsoft Office documents directly (Word, Excel and
It seems you can’t drag content from IE11 in Windows 8.1 into Word. As we mentioned recently, you can drag content from a browser to Word. In fact you can drag content between many applications. David K. has noticed an interesting anomaly with Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11. You
How to copy an image from the web into an Office document. Getting an image from your web browser to a Word document is quite easy, though easier with some browsers than others. In your browser, right-click over the image you want and look at the options available. At the
With Windows 8.1 for Surface RT comes a new Outlook – what’s it like? If you have a Surface RT device then there’s an update to Windows 8.1 available* and within that is a new Office program – Outlook RT. The ‘RT’ versions of Office programs look much like the
Christmas Cheer with Microsoft Office updated for Office 2010 and Office 2013 The Premium edition of Christmas Cheer with Microsoft Office has been updated for all customers – new and existing. We’ve updated the ebook to cover Office 2010 and Office 2013. All the Christmas themed sample documents – cards,
Office 2013: the real startup guide gets some updates for all readers. Our popular ebook Office 2013: the real startup guide has been updated with some new content for all readers. Volume Licencing chapter greatly expanded to include summary of the options as they apply to buying Office 2013, the
The Vatican’s latest mistake can be blamed on Microsoft … if you try hard enough. A good laugh can be had with this news from the Vatican: “A commemorative coins issued by the Vatican has been withdrawn because it spells the word ‘Jesus’ incorrectly”. You’d think that knowing how to
Charlie Stross unloads on Microsoft Word Author Charles Stross has dumped fully on Microsoft Word in a blog posting called ‘Why Microsoft Word must Die‘ and in case the title isn’t sufficiently clear he opens with: “I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft
If you rent/subscribe to Office software, how does the upgrade work. What if you don’t want to upgrade. If you want to control your Microsoft Office versions, maybe buying the software is a better choice than renting it. One of the ‘benefits’ of an Office software subscription is that you
How to use Office for Windows on the Mac. Sometimes Office for Mac isn’t enough, you need its big brother, Office for Windows to run on a Macintosh computer. That’s certainly possible in various ways. It’s done using virtual machines, in effect running Windows ‘inside’ Apple’s operating system. VM’s, as
Another way to have real Microsoft Office. Cloudon, makers of an app to bring MS Office to Apple and Android devices has now expanded to browsers as well. Now you can use Chrome or Safari browsers to open up a Cloudon window with Word, Excel or Powerpoint running. The base
The latest on the buggy September Office patches. In the last issue we told you about some buggy Office updates that are best ignored. What progress from Microsoft after a fortnight? The Office 2010 patches that got themselves into an infinite loop of updating are apparently now fixed. The Never
Make eye-popping headlines in Word Word 2010 and Word 2013 have a greater range of text effects than earlier versions of Word. There’s an array of color, outline, shadow, reflection and glow options. Enough to satisfy most people and also enough for most people to make horrible design choices. Text
OneNote for iPad/iPhone has been updated with some important and essential additions. With version 2.1 you have proper control to create notebooks on Skydrive. At last you can create, rename and delete sections. Until now OneNote users had to switch to their computer or Office Web Apps to rearrange notebooks
There’s no nice way to say it – this month’s Office 2013 update is, in military speak, ‘Fubar’ With the usual collection of security patches this month, Microsoft released an update to Office 2013 with various fixes and adding one major bug that amazingly managed to get through testing. The
How accurate is Excel compared to universal needs. On page 45 of the Sept/Oct 2013 Mental Floss magazine is a small item ‘Why do we care so much about the digits if Pi’ which includes this trivia: “The computers that keep the International Space Station humming round off pi at
There’s several spam checks of incoming email, which one is working for you. As we’ve mentioned before in Office-Watch.com, there’s usually more than one anti-spam filter on incoming messages. If those filter don’t work or are too aggressive you might miss out of messages you want to see. Typically an
Evernote for Android now comes with the ability to edit Office documents. Our favorite notemaking system, Evernote, now has the ability to edit Office documents within their Android version. Yes – we very much prefer Evernote over Office Onenote. Evernote runs very well, syncs seamlessly and completely across all popular
What can Office for Mac users do instead of font embedding? Since Office for Mac won’t let you embed fonts, what can you do instead? We’ll look at the options that Office for Mac users can try when sharing a document with Office for Windows. Going the other way (Office
Full list of fonts available in both modern Office for Mac and Office for Windows The following fonts are available on both Macintosh OSX 10.4 and later with Office for Mac and Windows 8 or later with Office for Windows You can use these fonts in Office documents, knowing that
A quick overview of Word on Android phones. You can open and view documents in either docx or doc format but will only edit docx documents. If you open a .doc file, press the menu button and Save As to the newer format. When you open a document you’re first
