Only a month to go for the Office 2010 ‘free’ updates. The usual ‘Technology Guarantee’ for Office 2010, where recent purchasers of Office 2007 get a free upgrade, is closing soon. To qualify you must buy Office 2007, install and activate it before Thursday 30 September 2010 That’s not a
Microsoft adds some more features to their online service, including printing. Microsoft’s online version of Office – Office Web Apps has been revised with some extra features including printing. A major difference between the traditional Office software and the online service is how they are updated. Software is updated with
” Today I went to the local computer store, which is in Canada, and acquired as to its cost. Since I use Access I have no choice but to purchase the Professional version. The retailer sells a Product Key for $499 and a CD for $699. I purchased a new
Why would existing Mac users pay more than they need to for Office 2011? Sandy J writes: “For many Macintosh users, I cannot see they would need to pay for the ‘Business’ box of Office 2011. The only important addition is Outlook for Mac which most Mac users don’t need.
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’.
A curious marketing match – buy Office 2010 and get $100 to fly Southwest Airlines. Amazon currently has a promotion where you get $100 to spend on Southwest Airlines flights if you buy Office 2010 Home and Business. It’s not a bad deal as long as you’re a business customer
Take advantage of the Technology Guarantee to get a small discount on the upcoming Office for Mac There is a small opportunity to save money on Office 2011 for Mac Home and Business edition. The Technology Guarantee is now in effect for anyone buying Office 2008 for Mac until 30
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
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’)
Just because it has the same name doesn’t mean Word 2010 has the same ‘version’ feature. Since Word 97 there has been a useful ‘versions’ feature which lets you save different variations or snapshots of a document within the single file. For no apparent reason this feature was summarily dropped
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.
Our friends in the Macintosh world will get a new incarnation of Office for Mac in October. Our friends in the Macintosh world will get a new incarnation of Office for Mac in October. Called Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 it will have the usual grab bag of new features
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
Microsoft’s latest video on the upcoming Office 2011 for Mac. Microsoft’s latest video on the upcoming Office 2011 for Mac features some developers talking about what they’ve been working on. Check it out here. Some of the features briefly discussed: The Template gallery is already a familiar feature for Office
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
Instyler’s Travel add-in for Outlook lets you block the travel time around an appointment in Outlook calendar. One long-standing problem with Outlook is the lack of a ‘travel time’ option. You can make an appointment but there’s no direct way to include the time it takes to get to and
How to get useful extras for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 without ‘social’ connections. Microsoft’s Outlook Social Connector adds useful features to Outlook, even if you have no interest in the links to Facebook, Windows Live Messenger etc. The social connector adds the Outlook 2010 People Pane to two earlier
See what Facebook friends are doing while using Outlook. Microsoft has released another ‘social connector’ that lets you see Facebook details inside Outlook. It is available for Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003. Simply download it from Microsoft and install. Outlook 2010 users should choose the 32-bit or 64-bit
Microsoft extends the social connections in Outlook 2010 to earlier versions of Outlook. Microsoft has released an add-in for Outlook 2007 and 2003 that lets you link to social networking sites like Facebook in a similar way to the People Pane in Outlook 2010. It’s not perfect but it’s a
A cleverly written phishing email looks like a request from Microsoft. On the back of many fake Amazon emails comes another message not caught by a fully updated Outlook Junk Email filter on the ‘High’ setting. Instead of being safely parked in the Junk E-mail folder, Outlook leaves the message
Microsoft leaves Outlook 2010 64-bit customers with no hope of Windows Mobile support. Sometimes you have to wonder how serious Microsoft is about their mobile product offerings. Sure they have all the marketing hoopla but the integration with Windows and Outlook is astonishingly poor – you’ve be forgiven for thinking
It’s still cheaper to buy Office 2007 even though Office 2010 has been out for a week. The lead-in Office 2010 Home and Student edition has dropped from $149 to around $125. Office 2010 Home and Business edition sells for around $220 compared to the official price of $280. That’s
Microsoft has a reasonable deal for active US military, but it’s not as good as the similar Office 2007 package. A popular but little known deal for military personnel is the Microsoft Office Military Appreciation Edition (MAE). The offer is only available to current US military including Coast Guard, National
Google move into the phone network has now gone public. Google move into the phone network has now gone public. You can join up without needing an invitation from http://google.com/voice Google Voice has some compelling features. It’s not just a phone number and voicemail provided online. You can link multiple
