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
More than a few Outlook users have seen this error message “The Microsoft Exchange administrator has made a change that requires you quit and restart Outlook” Problem is, the Microsoft message is lying! All too often Outlook users restart Outlook, even restart the computer, but the same message keeps appearing.
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
The Verge has been given a look at the next release of Microsoft Office, most likely called Office 2015, and a few of its features. This was a calculated ‘leak’ by Microsoft of selected images in advance of their big ‘Windows 9’ splash on 30 September. We’ve seen these selective
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 has today released many bug fixes for Office 2013 and Office 2010. They include a fix for an earlier broken Office patch and a series of OneDrive problems. From what we can tell from the brief explanations, most of the updates are minor. But buried among 18 separate Office
One of the September 2014 updates has us scratching our heads because it doesn’t make a lot of sense. The download is a fix for a problem caused by a previous bug patch, but what else? Under the bland title “September 9, 2014 update for Excel 2010” you’ll discover that
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
A whole new look for Office-Watch.com has arrived. Check it out at new.office-watch.com. We’ve moved all 2000+ past articles to the entirely new web site. Not just a different look but all the ‘back office’ has changed too including a move from Windows to Linux hosting. The new design is
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
The last man on the moon is missing from Microsoft Office. Let the conspiracy theories begin! The last man to walk on the moon, Captain Eugene Cernan, is a notable omission from the Microsoft Office dictionary. Update: as of November 2015 we’re delighted to see that Gene Cernan is now
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
Microsoft adds the Ruble symbol to Windows 8.1 and we show you how to add it to earlier versions of Windows. Part of the Windows 8.1 August 2014 update is the addition of the new Russian Ruble currency symbol. All Microsoft will say about this change is “This feature adds
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
How to add and remove data from a PivotTable. Thanks for the great feedback from our article on PivotTables. One concern some of you have is about adding or removing source data after the PivotTable has been created. That’s understandable because the original PivotTable releases where unclear and curiously sensitive
Forget the Romans … what use is a smartphone? The Guardian has an interesting article “From cameras to keycards, everyday devices killed off by the smartphone”. It could read like a scene from Life of Brian titled: “What have smartphones ever done for us?” “Well, aside from mobile phones, landlines,
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
Some programs let you email documents directly – here’s now. Microsoft Office for iPad has an ‘Email as attachment’ as one of its limited options for sharing a document. Here’s some clever ways to make use of that and workaround the Office for iPad limitations. Some cloud services offer an
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
