Finding the stand-alone version of Office 2013 isn’t made easy – here’s how. Microsoft’s preference for the public trial of Office 2012 is the cloud based system with their ‘click to run’ technology and streaming services. You can do that starting here. That might suit some people however why be the guinea pig for fairly new technologies […]
Outlook 2013 takes a backward step in readability. Grab a ruler and it’s easy to see how Microsoft has wasted screen space with Outlook 2013. The message view with preview turned off uses about 20% more vertical space than Outlook 2007 – That means less messages visible on the screen at any one time and […]
Unread messages view returns in Outlook 2013. Viewing ‘Unread mails only’ has returned as a classic ‘flip flop’ from Microsoft. Outlook 2010 dropped the ‘Unread messages’ view because Microsoft assured us their testing showed that people didn’t want or use that feature. Really? People didn’t want to see just unread messages? In what alternate universe […]
What you need to know about Office 2013 and getting the preview. Office 2013 is now available for public preview. As you’d expect Office-Watch.com has been and will be looking at Office 2013 in detail. We don’t rely on the glib promises and cozy half-truths sent out by Microsoft. Instead we take our time and […]
All Office 2013 programs have a full screen mode. Up in the top right corner of Office 2013 programs is a useful new button – Full Screen Mode. Word already has a full screen mode just for reading but this is different. The new full screen mode works in all Office 2013 programs and lets […]
