Why does OneDrive for Business change the Office documents and files you upload? MyCE.com has a worrying report on OneDrive for Business which appears to change the uploaded files. Microsoft seems to be adding information to customers uploaded files. We can’t find anywhere that discloses that and the reasons for
As promised, there’s now a cheaper Office 365 option. Microsoft has now released Office 365 Personal, a lower cost rental option for Office software. The ‘Personal’ subscription/rental option costs US$6.99 per month (US$69.99 a year) plus any state taxes. For that you get: Use of the current Office software for
How to change the date format in Excel Online The default date format in Excel has always been a mystery to newcomers and its stranger in Excel Online (the new name for Excel Web Apps). To change the default date format for display and date entry for Excel Online, go
What’s new in Office Online for April 2014 Office Online – the new name for the Office Web Apps – has received an update. Here’s a quick look at some of the new features. All the updates should be available now or in the next few days as Microsoft global
A smart move by Microsoft, but not a big deal. A clever move from Microsoft today, having their Office Online web sites added to the Google Chrome App Store. That’s led to excited headlines like “Microsoft Office hits Google’s Chrome Web Store” which will please Microsoft. Sure, you can now
The Drop Dropbox campaign is poorly aimed. The Drop Dropbox campaign is a shameful waste of time and effort. It’s making a scapegoat of one lady while ignoring much bigger problems. Drop Dropbox came about after the announcement that Condoleezza Rice, former adviser to President George W. Bush and US
A close look at the new Formula Keyboard in Excel for iPad. One of the highlighted innovations in Excel for iPad is a dedicated Formula Keyboard which looks like this: It’s necessary because none of the supplied iPad virtual keyboards work well when you’re trying to enter Excel formula. Hunting
A preview of Office for iPad. The presentation is just over .. what do we know before looking at the Office for iPad apps ourselves? Office for iPad has Word, Excel and PowerPoint components (OneNote for iPad already exists). Shameless plug:Office for iPad: The Complete Guide is now available. Every tab,
Non-business users can edit Office documents on their iPhone or Android phone for free. On the same day as Office for iPad was released, Office Mobile for iPhone and Android was also updated. The usual unstated bug fixes but the major news is that Office Mobile for iPhone and Office Mobile
You can secure cloud documents with a password but Microsoft makes them hard to use. Password locking Office documents is one way to keep your OneDrive stored documents safe from prying eyes (e.g. hackers, Microsoft etc.). It’s a nice idea but Microsoft’s poor support for password protected documents makes that
If Microsoft can read Outlook.com email, they can read your Office documents too. The news that Microsoft read the email of a Hotmail/Outlook.com user without his knowledge raises the question of access to OneDrive data Microsoft Office and Windows 8 encourage people to save documents and pictures to Microsoft’s OneDrive
Which way is best? Share a document by email or cloud? There are two main ways to share a document that needs editing or proofreading. Send it via email and get a revised document back or post to a cloud service like OneDrive, Dropbox or SharePoint. But which is best?
Don’t get excited about an ‘Office for iPad’ until we see it. The online commentariat was alight with news about the coming Office for iPad. Not much news really, just a rumor that Office for iPad was still ‘coming’ and probably before a version of Office for Windows 8 touch
Choosing and mixing cloud storage options for file send and sync. Office-Watch.com received some great feedback after our features on sharing files with Dropbox or Skydrive. Some readers pointed out other cloud storage services like BOX which offers 10GB free and has real-time updates on downloads etc. Strangely, no-one mentioned
A simple guide to sending files via Skydrive / OneDrive There are many ways to send files that are too big for email (usually over 20MB). In this article we’ll look at how to do that with Skydrive. Skydrive, soon to be called, OneDrive is Microsoft’s public cloud storage service.
How to recover deleted files in OneDrive. Skydrive/OneDrive retains deleted files for 30 days or until the Recycle Bin exceeds 10% of your allowed storage space. This feature works much the same way as the Recycle Bin in Windows and it’s called ‘Recycle Bin’ down on the bottom left of
It’s not just Skydrive getting a rename … ZDNET is reporting a possible renaming of Microsoft Office’s cloud services to ‘Office Online’. In this scenario Office Web Apps would become Office Online comprising Word Online, Excel Online, PowerPoint Online, OneNoteOnline and Office Online templates. This makes sense because the word
Microsoft’s online storage service gets a court mandated name change. Last year, Microsoft lost a court case over the name ‘SkyDrive’ so now it’s being renamed ‘OneDrive‘. SkyDrive will be called OneDrive SkyDrive Pro becomes OneDrive for Business Hopefully the switchover will be seamless for users like those who save
Collaboration features now in Office Web Apps plus other changes Microsoft has rolled out an update to Office Web Apps – the browser based version of Office available via Skydrive and Office 365. These changes are now available free from Office.com for all comers (‘free’ users and those with paid
How to copy an image from the web into an Office document. Getting an image from your web browser to a Word document is quite easy, though easier with some browsers than others. In your browser, right-click over the image you want and look at the options available. At the
A quick overview of Word on Android phones. You can open and view documents in either docx or doc format but will only edit docx documents. If you open a .doc file, press the menu button and Save As to the newer format. When you open a document you’re first
Does Microsoft have a list of blocked words like Apple does on the iPhone? One of the more amazing examples of over-control by a software maker is the news that Apple has a ‘Kill List’ of words that it won’t spell-check. It seems that iOS v6 devices have a list
How to rid yourself of the spam ‘Dr Oz.’ emails since Outlook can’t do it. The latest plague on Outlook Inboxes are ‘Dr Oz News’ emails. It truly is a plague too; here’s our unfiltered Outlook Inbox showing nothing else! Maybe you’re lucky enough that an ISP or mail host
There’s SUM and then there are all the useful SUM variations to choose from. Excel’s SUM() function is probably the first one we learn but there’s a lot more to it than simply clicking on the button to add up a list of numbers. In this article we’ll look at
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