As part of the Outlook for Mac release, Microsoft has indicated their Office for Mac plans. A new Office for Mac (Office 2015 for Mac?) will be released in the second half of 2015. Office 365 subscribers/renters will be able to switch to the new Office for Mac at no
Microsoft has released a new version of Outlook for Macintosh computers with new features but it’s not available to everyone. This Outlook is separate from Outlook 2011 that comes with Office 2011 for Mac. It’s called Outlook for Mac version 15 and is only available to Office 365 subscription/rental customers.
The Office rumor mill has been running hot this week. Office for Android Plenty of rumors that Office for Android is coming soon, possibly in early November. If that’s the case it can’t come soon enough for Office users. If Office for Android is as good as Office for iPad
Microsoft has really made Office 365 more compelling by raising their online OneDrive storage from 1 Terabyte to Unlimited for Office 365 subscribers. If you have Office 365 Personal, Home, University or Business account, the OneDrive storage limit will be effectively removed entirely. For Home subscribers, shared among several people,
An iOS 8 trap for iPad users who have an external video connection cable. Many people have a little plug-in for their iPad that lets them put the video on any HDMI display … like most monitors and TV sets. This is great for anyone who needs big screen support,
Microsoft has announced the existence but not availability of a new part of Office, Microsoft Sway. https://sway.com/ Sway is a new way to make a web based presentations with text, images, video, social media integrated. It certainly looks interesting. We think of it as a 21st Century version of PowerPoint,
In addition to the new 10GB file limit in OneDrive, Microsoft is rolling out two other improvements that may be of interest to Microsoft Office users. Share from Explorer Coming to Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 ‘soon’ is an addition to the right-click menu in Explorer. ‘Share a OneDrive link’
Microsoft has increased the maximum size for a single file on OneDrive to 10GB. That’s a sensible change since Office 365 customers now have a Terabyte (1,000GB) available online. The 10GB limit applies to files transferred via the desktop or mobile apps. Uploads via web browser seem to remain limited
Microsoft has made it easier for students to get a free copy of the Microsoft Office suite with a major streamlining of their existing Student Advantage program. How to get the free Office The student (13 years and older) has to be enrolled at a school which has MS Office
Office Lens, the Windows Phone app, can now take a photo and turn it into a Word or PowerPoint document. Until now, Lens was a way to take photos and drop them directly into OneNote pages. Microsoft promotes this as a way to capture a whiteboard or paper document into
Microsoft has jumped on the iPhone 6 bandwagon with an offer of 30GB to iPhone 6 users who also use OneDrive. As usual for a Microsoft offer, the devil is in the detail. For once, it’s not all bad news for customers. Despite the hype, anyone with the OneDrive app
In Windows 8.1 for Microsoft Office users we have an entire chapter on the OneDrive features – the good and the bad. We include the policy and registry settings necessary to disable OneDrive entirely in Windows 8.1. But is it a good idea to entirely remove OneDrive features? Microsoft does
Microsoft is getting near a ‘contempt of court’ citation in their court case against the US government over email privacy. The case began when Microsoft received a search warrant for emails of a customer. The emails are on a Microsoft server in Ireland. Microsoft is challenging the US law which
The latest updates to Office for iPad are good for Microsoft marketing but not existing customers. Microsoft has just released updates to their Office for iPad apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint for iPad). What’s new and fixed for Office 365 customers? Nothing …. If you’re already an Office 365 renter/subscriber
Dropbox plays ‘catch up’ on OneDrive and Google but still lose the cloud storage lead. And there’s a competitor that might beat them all. Dropbox has announced price decreases / storage increases to match offerings from Microsoft and Google. The lowest level of paid Dropbox is ‘Pro’ for $9.99 a
The ‘Modern’ version of OneNote gets Ink highlighting, Printing and PDF insertion. There’s a new version of OneNote for Windows 8 out today with some ‘new’ features that help it catch up ‘real’ OneNote for PC or Mac At this stage let’s be clear, we’re talking about the OneNote app
What’s with Office Mobile apps and their secrecy? Quietly, ever so quietly, Microsoft released a new version of Office for iPhone. Version 1.2 was pushed out on 14 August 2014 to a complete silence from Microsoft. No blog post, no Knowledge Base article … nothing … not a sausage or
Make Tom Hanks and Office for iPad work together. All the talk in iPad land is about Hanx Writer; a typewriter app for Apple iPad. Hanx Writer is a pleasant novelty app. It looks and sounds like a typewriter. Having spent a lot of time delving into Office for iPad
When the August 2014 update was finally released it disappointed in more ways than one. Oh dear, for all the hype, rumor and promise of the Windows 8.1 update, it turned out to be a damp squib. The feature additions were not as interesting as Microsoft strategic leaking led us
Microsoft needs to play ‘catch up’ with email encryption. Yahoo is going to join Google is supporting not just email encryption but the same type of email encryption. Sadly we’ll have to wait until sometime in 2015 for Yahoo to release their version of OpenPGP. That’s good news … but
Updates now available free for our popular Windows 8.1 and Office for iPad ebooks. We’re pleased to tell you about TWO free updates to our ebooks that are now available. Free updates are just one of the unique benefits of Office-Watch.com ebooks. Office for iPad: The Complete Guide A third
The Insert | Symbol feature in Office is overdue for an overhaul. Our venture into the new Unicode symbols and symbol fonts highlighted how much work Microsoft needs to do on this part of Office. Insert | Symbol has changed for a long time and many versions of Office. Here’s
Microsoft celebrates 25 years of the software suite. Microsoft quietly celebrated the 25th anniversary of their Office suite on 1 August 2014 but were they being a little ‘previous’ in their celebrations? While Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Windows were around on 1 August 1989, were they sold as ‘Microsoft
The latest Office for iPad announcement is misleading and accurate at the same time. You have to hand it to Microsoft .. they can write something that’s both accurate and misleading at the same time. It tricks customers and the media into thinking there’s more in a product than there
