Jun 11, 2015 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, phone, software, tablet
Microsoft is continuing an aggressive push to ensure that Word, Excel and Powerpoint continue to be the standard business file formats as we move into a new world of mobile devices and files stored online in a variety of services. Recent examples: Dropbox has added...
May 14, 2015 | Adobe, Microsoft, Office, updates, Windows7, Windows8
Microsoft released the usual rich crop of patches and updates for Windows and Office on Patch Tuesday this week. On my Windows 8.1 computers, two restarts were required – one for the first 39 updates, then a second restart for an additional 11 updates. It’s not...
May 3, 2015 | mail, Office, Office 365, Office tips, Outlook, software
If you have a large Office 365 mailbox, Outlook 2010 may be slowing down even if your computer is otherwise running at full speed. A new feature in Outlook 2013 – the “sync slider” – might improve performance significantly, and as a nice bonus you would also get...
Apr 20, 2015 | Adobe, Office, software
Adobe has released Acrobat DC, a new version of Acrobat with a completely revamped look and lots of Features You Probably Won’t Use™. Let’s see if we can answer some of the basic questions about what’s new, where you can get it, and how much it costs. But we’ll start...
Apr 16, 2015 | Android, Apple, iPad, Microsoft, mobile, Office, Office tips, OneDrive, OneNote, phone, Windows Phone 8
Last week Microsoft made Office Lens available for iPhones and Android phones. It’s a free app that turns your phone into a fast and efficient scanner, able to easily capture documents, business cards, receipts, whiteboards, and more. It’s practical and useful and...
Mar 25, 2015 | Android, Apple, IE, iPad, mobile, Office, OneNote, phone, software, tablet, web_services, Windows7, Windows8
An update to OneNote Clipper has made it the easiest and best way to save content from the web, from entire web pages to just the content you want – articles, recipes, pictures, or anything else. It’s only the latest in a series of updates for OneNote; Microsoft has...
