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
What to look for in emails that might be up to no good. Ernst and Young in conjunction with the FBI has developed a tool to check for fraud via email conversations. The software looks for key phrases that are often used when people are discussing something they should not
Apple and Microsoft arguing about Skydrive and Office for iPad and iPhone TheNextWeb is reporting that Apple has rejected Microsoft’s update to the Skydrive app for iOS devices (iPhone and iPad). Skydrive is Microsoft and Office’s preferred way to share documents between devices. The current Skydrive app hasn’t been updated
The latest rumor is more like a logical extension of current policy. The latest rumor about Microsoft Office for iPhone/iPad (number 263 in the series) says that if such a program is released it will be as part of an Office 365 subscription. That’s hardly a surprise for several reasons.
There’s many ways you can arrange your Inbox in Outlook. Whenever we look at the Outlook setup used by other people, two things are striking. One is that few people change the default layout provided by Microsoft to something that suits them. We’ll look at that another time. The other
Traps, changes and subscriptions in Office 2013 prices. Microsoft has announced the pricing for Office 2013 and, as usual, the devil is in the detail. Subscriptions For a long time, Microsoft has wanted to sell Microsoft Office as a subscription rather than a one-time payment. With Office 2013 they are
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
How private is your cloud data from legal copying? The issues and concerns about the law, privacy and cloud storage. In this article we’ll try to set out some of the legal issues surrounding cloud storage. We’ll focus on the legal side, not the technical possibilities, and give links to
Some more cloud privacy problems to consider … In preparing our article about privacy law and the cloud some other possible privacy breaches came to our attention. Cloud storage can move Let’s say you setup a cloud service and ensure that the servers are located in a place that’s acceptable
Some comments and official statements from Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Here’s some collected statements and legalese from some of the major players in the cloud market. What Microsoft says about the Patriot Act The UK launch of Office 365, Microsoft’s managing director for the UK made it clear that neither
It’s often the case that there’s a gap between marketing spin and the product’s reality. If the gap is too wide, it’s called false advertising. It’s often the case that there’s a gap between marketing spin and the product’s reality. If the gap is too wide, it’s called false advertising.
Enterprises pay less for Office 365 though the reason is silly. Microsoft has announced a price drop of ‘up to 20%’ on Office 365 for their enterprise ‘E’ plans as well as an extension of the Education offer, effective 14 March 2012. The announcement of these price drops is strange
Paying and saving money for your Office 365 service. When you’re getting near the end of your Office 365 trial and you’ve decided to continue with it, there comes the time to pay for Office 365. As usual with Microsoft, it helps to know some extra things before trying to
How to stop Office 365 sending emails with ‘on behalf of’ in the sender or FROM line. One major hassle with Office 365 is that messages sent using connected accounts don’t have a normal ‘FROM’ line. Instead they show the Office 365 internal domain ‘ on behalf of’ your connected
There is no catch-all email in Office 365 but aliases are buried in the configuration. Yet even then they aren’t properly implemented. The Office 365 implementation of email aliases is a typical Microsoft minimal effort. They’ve done enough so they can say Office 365 has ‘aliases’ but lacks the depth
Office 365 mis-handles email read receipts and tracking with the Monrovia / Reykjavik time zone. There’s an ongoing complaint about Office 365’s response to email read receipts and other email tracking. When an Office 365 user asks for a read receipt, the receipt comes back with a time zone of
How to change the time zone setting in Outlook Web Apps and how it’s a workaround for an Outlook problem. Anyone who has Outlook Web Apps can use it to workaround a long-standing problem in Outlook – multiple time zone display. Outlook has always given limited time zone support. For
How to move existing Outlook items to an Office 365 or any other new email setup. Now that you have an Office 365 account working in Outlook you can copy your current Tasks, Contacts and Calendar from your current Outlook store into the Office 365 account. In short, open up
Office 365 has some unusual limits on the number and size of messages you can send or receive. Office 365 has some restrictions on emails and how many you can send, but some are not calculated the usual way. Message Size The size of an email message is always calculated
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.
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
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
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
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
