Oct 17 2013
An obscure tip but one that I found worked this week. A colleague at work was attempting to send a meeting request but repeatedly received errors from our Microsoft Exchange server for one of the recipients. Everything seemed fine and the contacts were correctly populated from the contacts cache. Sending the request met with no …
Feb 07 2013
Here’s another quick tip for Microsoft Office – this time for Microsoft Access for you budding database experts. If you lock down your database and prevent users from navigating its objects then by default nothing will show up when the database is loaded. Similarly, if your users are using the Microsoft Access Runtime (a cutdown …
Feb 05 2013
Most people know how to use the search and replace function in Excel spreadsheets but it can be a tricky task if what you’re looking for is a non-printable character like a carriage return (i.e. hitting Enter on the keyboard). Thankfully, it’s easy enough to do once you know how 🙂 In the Find and …
Dec 05 2012
If you use Office 365 and the Sharepoint Online functionality included as part of your subscription you may find that you are unable to add your Sharepoint site to Windows Phone 8 in the Office hub. When attempting to do so, you may encounter the following error: We encountered a problem and couldn’t complete this …
Oct 03 2011
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Apparently, this has been missing for a while but it seems that you can now print natively from the Office Web Apps to a local printer. Previously, you had to wrestle with your browser and its ability to print what was on screen instead of being nicely formatted. Quite …
Jun 29 2011
Just a quick heads up on another development from Microsoft in what is shaping up to be a busy week for them. Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2010 has just been released and is available though Windows Update in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavours. You shouldn’t need to worry about which version you require …
Jun 28 2011
Here’s a heads up on something that has just happened this evening. Microsoft’s Office 365 product has come out of beta and pricing has been released. In a nutshell: Single users and small businesses can buy up to 25 accounts at $6 per user per month, Medium businesses and enterprises can purchase accounts for between …
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