The Difference Between A Microsoft Account And An Office 365 Account

Apr 28, 2013 | Azure, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, web_services, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8

[June 16, 2016: an updated version of this article can be found here: Understanding Microsoft Work And Personal Accounts.] Microsoft has taken great strides towards simplifying its products and services. It has discarded products that were overlapping (Live Mesh...

Where Are Custom Templates Stored For Microsoft Office?

Apr 18, 2013 | Office, Office tips, software

Here’s a very basic tip about Word, Excel and Powerpoint. You already know the basic concept. When you’ve prepared something that you might re-use, you can save it as a template. Click File / Save As / Save as type / Word Template (*.dotx). When you create a new file...

View And Edit PDF Files In Word 2013

Mar 13, 2013 | Adobe, Office, Office 365, Office tips, software, Windows7, Windows8

A new feature in Office 2013 that deserves explanation: Word 2013 can convert PDF files into editable Word documents with a high degree of accuracy. If you browse to a PDF file in Word 2013 and click to open it, you will see this window: “Word will now convert your...

How To Buy Microsoft Office 2013

Mar 3, 2013 | Office, Office 365, Office tips, shopping, software

There are three different paths to buy Office 2013. Choose your path based on whether you are: –  a home user (or a business that’s so small that everyone feels like family) –  a business with an existing Office 365 subscription –  a...

Office 365, Office 2013 & Internet Explorer 10

Mar 1, 2013 | IE, mail, Office, Office 365, Outlook, web_services, Windows7

Here’s some late-breaking news about upgrades to Microsoft’s Office 365 service, Office 2013, and Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7.   Office 365 Existing Office 365 subscribers are being upgraded to a new version of the service, one by one during the past month and...

Outlook.com Takes Over Hotmail (But Has Some Growing Pains)

Feb 27, 2013 | mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, web_services, Windows Live

Last summer Microsoft introduced Outlook.com, a redesigned webmail service with a modern design and new features that were ahead of Hotmail, Gmail, and the other competitors. Here’s my enthusiastic description of Outlook.com. (To be clear: Outlook.com is a webmail...