Slowly, ever so slowly the Instant Messaging companies are getting together and AOL inched partly down that path with a new tool to link Outlook contacts with the AOL Instant Messenger aka AIM. Slowly, ever so slowly the Instant Messaging companies are getting together and AOL inched partly down that
The best known makers of compression tools, Winzip has now released a small companion program to work directly with Microsoft Outlook. The best known makers of compression tools, Winzip has now released a small companion program to work directly with Microsoft Outlook. WinZip Companion for Outlook saves you the trouble
We look at some more advanced Outlook tricks that might be old news to you but have surprised a lot of Outlook users. OUTLOOK TRICKS The latest issue of Office for Mere Mortals has a collection of Outlook tricks that might be old news to you but have surprised a
Adding text to an incoming message might help find it later – especially if the message isn’t clear or comes from an unusual source. After last week’s article, another use for editing an existing email message occurred to us and it relates to the much faster ability to search in
A small and presumably deliberate leak from Microsoft about ‘Elixir’ is of little interest to Office users at this stage, if only because this ‘Elixir’ is such a vague and ill-defined wizards brew. A small and presumably deliberate leak from Microsoft about ‘Elixir’ is of little interest to Office users
Timeslips is a long standing time and billing application that now integrates with Outlook. We noticed Timeslips because it claims to have won a Readers Choice award from Law Office Computing for ten years in a row – not a bad track record. Now the 2005 version has some Outlook
We look at some reader feedback on the Word and Excel document decryption problem for January 2005. Thanks to all the readers who gave us feedback on the Word and Excel document decryption problem mentioned in the last Office Watch article. Readers seem divided into two roughly equal camps –
Well it’s here – Outlook Live, the meeting of Hotmail with Outlook in one marketing bundle. Well it’s here – Outlook Live, the meeting of Hotmail with Outlook in one marketing bundle. We’ve had Hotmail for many years, we’ve had Outlook and more recently we’ve had Outlook with Hotmail support.
Sharepoint and Master Documents are collaboration tools that don’t… well… collaborate. And people at Redmond wonder why customers get frustrated with their products … Sharepoint is a collaboration tool that is getting better. The latest versions don’t have the limitations and narrow view of the first efforts and it is
News has leaked, perhaps deliberately, about a new way to rent Outlook that might be coming in 2005. News has leaked, perhaps deliberately, about a new way to rent Outlook that might be coming in 2005. This time the idea is to rent an Outlook license in conjunction with 2Gb
A recent security fix for Wordpad can have a side-effect for users of the Word for Windows 6.0 converter. A recent security fix for Wordpad can have a side-effect for users of the Word for Windows 6.0 converter. This converter is now turned off by various security measures (including Windows
Following the beta release of Google’s Desktop Search, Microsoft has now released its own MSN Toolbar Suite Beta. MSN TOOLBAR SUITE BETA Everyone is jumping forward to get their version of Desktop Search up and running. Following the beta release of Google’s Desktop Search, and Microsoft has now released its
UPDATED See the updated version of this 2004 article, Christmas images and clipart in Microsoft Office and our ebook Christmas Cheer with Microsoft Office ————- Microsoft has some Christmas clipart available on their Office website. Microsoft has some Christmas clipart available on their Office website starting here. Some of the images are a bit
Excel 2003 has a nifty feature that will read a worksheet to you. Speak to me! Oh mighty Office If you’re hung-over after yet another Christmas lunch, you might be looking for a low impact job for the afternoon. Excel 2003 has a nifty feature that will read a worksheet
We look at the most popular of the tools for MS Office users – Google Desktop Search In part one of this special Office Watch series we looked at the possibilities of the new range of desktop searching tools, how the work, what to look for, security implications and pitfalls.
Even if you only search email or documents once a week, one of these Desktop Search tools will make life a lot easier as they are much faster than anything supplied by Microsoft at present. Everyone’s talking about fast searching of your documents and email these days. What was a
We look at some more interesting Small Business Server 2003 features, web sites and some alternatives to SBS that are out there. Our look at Small Business Server concludes this week with a look at some more interesting features, as well as some useful SBS books and web sites, and some
If you want to seem really wizardly with Word then try turning on the function key display. If you want to seem really wizardly with Word then try turning on the function key display. This is an extra bar at the bottom of the Word window. It shows all the
Microsoft’s Small Business Server has been around for many years but we’ve been pleasantly surprised with the Small Business Server 2003 release. SBS ROCKS Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS) has been around for many years but we’ve been pleasantly surprised with the Small Business Server 2003 release. We’ve been trying
With more and more people using LCD screens on the desktop and on portable computers there are more people who would benefit from the Windows ClearType Tuner option now rather than when it first came out. With more and more people using LCD screens on the desktop and on portable
We’ve had a spate of messages from Outlook users who report that they cannot turn off their Junk Mail filter. These people have switched the filter off and yet messages still go to their Junk Mail folder. We’ve had a spate of messages from Outlook users who report that they
Even poor old Microsoft Word can’t miss getting involved in the US election. Even poor old Microsoft Word can’t miss getting involved in the US election. First there was ‘Rathergate’ with documents supposedly from the 70’s being produced on more modern software. We didn’t cover that here in Office Watch
Microsoft has released its monthly batch of security updates for September 2004 and there are some that affect Office as well as Windows generally. Microsoft has released its monthly batch of security updates and there are some that affect Office as well as Windows generally. In this issue we’ll try to
The dust has settled around Office 2003 Service Pack 1 and now its possible to make some informed judgments about updating Office 2003. The dust has settled around Office 2003 Service Pack 1 and now its possible to make some informed judgments about updating Office 2003. For all the basic
