It promises a raunchy PowerPoint presentation, but gives you a malware Trojan instead. A nasty email is doing the rounds promising a PowerPoint presentation of the Kama Sutra but includes a program to take control of your computer as well. Sophos is reporting that an infected email is about to
Free training manuals for Office 2007 and before plus Quick References for Office 2010. Mouse Training in the UK has released their training manuals free for all comers plus some Quick Reference Guides. The Training Manuals are for Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP (2002) and Office 2000. They cover
And you thought Word 2010 was new? Microsoft has released a cute video on YouTube showing how the US Declaration of Independance was ‘made’ with Word 2010 and collaboration tools. You can slow down or stop the video to show how some Word features are done. The font
Word’s spell checker has some peculiar ideas about where an & symbol belongs. Susan S. writes with a question about the Word spell checker. She’s noticed that an ampersand next to a letter doesn’t trigger a spelling error in Word. We tried it out and she’s right: An ampersand next
Why is an obviously incorrect word not picked up by Word’s spell checker? Susan S. complains that her copy of Word has phrases like ‘ Thisis ‘ which aren’t showing up as a spelling error. In other words there is no red squiggly line when there should be. We’ve had
Yes, you can type a long subject to an email, but it’s not much help to the reader. Recently we’ve received quite a few emails with long subject lines, sometimes only a subject with no message at all! We explain why they are difficult to read in Outlook despite Outlook
Trim down those enormous PPT/PPTX files. While it’s not the problem it was a few years ago, there’s still a need to reduce the file size of a PowerPoint presentation to something more portable for transport or even use on older machines which may have trouble dealing with large file
The second edition of “Office 2010: the real startup guide” is now available for new and past purchasers. We’re delighted to announce that a second edition of Office 2010: the real startup guide is now available for new and past purchasers. The new edition has over 150 extra pages covering
What to do about the latest email pest that Outlook isn’t detecting. The latest serial Inbox pest is fake messages that appear to come from the LinkedIn service. Outlook with the latest junk e-mail update doesn’t pick them up. The ‘From’ address is spoofed to appear to come from linkedin.com
OneNote 2010 has introduced Heading styles the same as in Word. OneNote 2010 has introduced Heading styles the same as in Word. This is a welcome new feature because it makes it much easier to structure notes as you type them. The OneNote developers understand the importance of keyboard shortcuts
An overview of the Print options in the new Backstage view. In Office 2010 the Print tab is moved to the File menu aka Backstage. Available Printer options, page settings and page preview have all been grouped together in one place and made more obvious. The Print pane is much
Two ‘free’ update emails are scams but not detected by Outlook. We check out the ‘red flags’ you should look for in any suspicious or unexpected email. Two similar scam messages have arrived in the last day, they might fool some people and certainly don’t get caught by Microsoft Outlook’s
Some options for making a Gmail like ‘Priority Inbox’ in Outlook. Google’s Gmail service continues to innovate with the addition of a Priority Inbox feature. This feature (being gradually deployed to all Gmail users) puts ‘important’ emails into a special view above the standard Inbox. What is deemed ‘important’ changes
The free browser version of Office is worth trying out. Office Web Apps are the online, browser based versions of the Microsoft Office programs. There are versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that can run in a web browser wherever you are and are totally free. The Web Apps
A nice and informative PowerPoint presentation we made a little smaller and safer. A lovely PowerPoint presentation arrived in our Inbox (thanks Peter!) which we’ve decided to share with Office-Watch.com readers. It’s a series of day and night photos of Earth from space taken by Sunita Williams called ‘Blue Beauty’.
Microsoft isn’t really cutting the prices of Office for Mac – it just looks that way. We’ve been intrigued to see press reports of Microsoft ‘cutting’ the prices on Office 2011 for Mac. It looks that way at first glance but, as usual, a closer look shows that Office 2011
Improved features related to inserting audio clips in PowerPoint 2010. Some of the features related to inserting audio clips have been improved in PowerPoint 2010. You can add an audio clip from files on your computer or the Clip Art task pane. You can also record your own audio to
A new spam email, ignored by Outlook’s spam filter, is supposed to have a spreadsheet file for Excel. A new spam email is arriving in Inboxes, trying to trick Excel users into opening it. This email isn’t detected by the Outlook 2007/2010 spam filter (latest update and configured to ‘High’)
In Word 2010 there is a ‘version’ feature but it’s quite different from the feature of the same name in Word 97 to Word 2007. In Word 2010 there is a ‘version’ feature but it’s quite different from the feature of the same name in Word 97 to Word 2007.
Office-Watch.com titles are now available on the Kindle We’re delighted to announce that three Office-Watch.com titles are now available on the Kindle. You can now get our popular Office-Watch.com ebooks to read in the Kindle format – either on a Kindle device or on a PC, Mac, iPad or even
Live Sync is a useful tool for sharing files and Office settings between different computers. As Office-Watch.com regulars may know, we’ve been big fans of Microsoft Live Mesh – a beta service to synchronize files and remotely access computers. Live Mesh was great and the underlying technology revealed some enticing
Making ordinary texts look extraordinary has been possible for many versions of Word. Alas, the features can make ordinary text look awful – if you’re not careful. Making ordinary texts look extraordinary has been possible for many versions of Word. Alas, the features can make ordinary text look awful –
Text effects in Word 2010 have wide range of options like applying shadow, reflection or glow to transform the appearance of text and give it an altogether new look. Text effects in Word 2010 have wide range of options like applying shadow, reflection or glow to transform the appearance of
Some new image changing options in Office 2010. Generally speaking it’s better to make changes to an image before importing it into an Office document (document, spreadsheet or presentation). There even the Microsoft Picture Manager provided with Office to let you do that, as well as many other photo editing
