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Leigh O. asks:
“I cannot find any instructions on how to upload the .pst file into Gmail which is what I am using now.”
You can't upload a PST file to Gmail (or any other email service that we’re aware of).
To transfer existing PST data you have to load it into Outlook and also create a synced link between Outlook and the online mail host - in this case an IMAP connection between Outlook and Gmail.
Once that's done you can copy the items from the PST to the Gmail accounts within Outlook – then Outlook will synchronize those items with the online storage.
We’ve talked about the steps in this process in past Office Watch articles:
Copying many items in Outlook – troubleshooting
Syncing Google services with Outlook
The same or very similar steps apply if you're migrating to Office 365, Hotmail or any other online email storage.
If you’re not intending to use Outlook with Gmail then you could use temporary copy of Office to copy the items from the PST. Either install an existing copy of Office but not activate it or download the Office trial version.
If you have Office installed then we suggest setting up Outlook with an IMAP link to Gmail. Or use the free Windows Live Mail if you don’t have Office on the computer. Either way this gives you a local copy of the Gmail folders as an informal backup and offline access.
... click here to read more at Office-Watch.com ...What they think of me / What I really do is a popular set of photos and captions going around at the moment. It started with artist Garnet Hertz only a few weeks ago:
There are some more examples below.
The ‘template’ provided by KnowYourMeme is a simple JPG ‘frame’ that you can drop your pictures and text onto it.
Or ….
It’s even easier in PowerPoint.
A PowerPoint slide has picture and text elements that can be placed in the right locations. All you have to do is add the images, type the text and you’re done.
Office-Watch.com has made a PowerPoint ‘template’ ready to use.
To make an image of the PowerPoint slide, go to File | Save As and choose JPG from the long list file types.
Of course, you can also copy the slide to include in your own presentation.
The hard part is finding the images and writing the captions … we leave that to you. Send us your “What they think I do” creations and we’ll post them here at Office-Watch.com – email your PPTX or JPG file to WTTID2012@office-watch.com
More info at KnowYourMeme.com with thanks to Mary-Jane Almer for letting us know what you young people are up to <g>.
... click here to read more at Office-Watch.com ...The Kindle Touch sounds like a great idea, getting rid of the buttons and having a touch screen display seems really cool. But then you actually get one and use it.
Alas, the processor isn’t really up to the job of handling touch commands. You tap and swipe until something happens, unsure which of your finger movements actually did something.
The page refresh isn’t as clean as with previous Kindle’s, a function of the slower processor. Amazon has tried to workaround this by turning off the full page refresh when you switch pages. This can leave bits on the new page that is left over from the page before – ouch.
To fix that you go into Menu | Reading Options | Page Refresh = ON .That will slow down the page turning so you have to decide if you prefer a ‘dirty’ but fast page change or a clean and slightly slower one.
But the real PITA on the Kindle Touch is the page turning ‘tap zones’ that ignore what Kindle customers have become used to; ignores left-handers entirely and tries to replicate the paper book experience which is inappropriate for the device.
The Kindle Touch has ‘EasyReach’ tap zones. I don’t know what liquid marketing lunch came up with the name ‘EasyReach’ but they clearly hadn’t actually used the device. Here are the places you can touch to turn pages:
On the left is a small zone to go back a page with a large zone on the right to go forward a page. It seems reasonable until you try it.
Until now, Kindle’s have had page turning physical buttons on each side. A large one to turn forward a page and a smaller one above it to turn back. They work great for one-handed readers (left and right). It’s also great for the many Kindle users who switch hands while reading, which is easy to do because the Kindle is so light.
... click here to read more at Office-Watch.com ...The preview video for Windows 8 on ARM devices (called WOA) has some views of the next version of Office – aka Office 15.
It gives a small idea of what the next Office will look like on touch-screen devices. Only a tiny look, it’s like trying to understand how a car handles by looking at a few exterior photos.
According to the video, Office 15 for ARM will support Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote in their ‘15’ incarnations.
No mention of the other Office apps like Publisher or Picture Manager so it looks like they’ve been dropped. If Sharepoint Workspace is dropped for Office on ARM devices it’ll make corporate use of Windows 8 tablet devices a lot harder because that app provides efficient offline access to Sharepoint content.
Windows 8 will have a ‘tiles’ interface like the latest Windows Mobile. Touch the tile to start the program. This screen image shows the tile interface including tiles for Excel 15, Word 15, PowerPoint 15 and OneNote 15 among many.
However the more familiar Windows interface including Start Button/Menu and Explorer are still there. The new ‘Metro’ interface is really a fancy overlay on Windows, not a complete replacement.
The Word 15 image has a minimized ribbon on the top row so we only see the tabs. Presumably that’s to show the document fully and also hide any changes to the ribbon in Office 15. How easy it is to use the ribbon with a touch interface will be a key test of Windows 8 and Office 15 on tablets.
The minimized ribbon is already available in Office 2007 and Office 2010 but isn’t as well used as it should be on smaller screens. See Make the Office 2007 ribbon go away and Office 2010 – a ribbon minimize option.
We’ve already mentioned the new Word 15 Design tab and Sign in on the title bar.
... click here to read more at Office-Watch.com ...Some commentators have jumped to the conclusion that Windows 8 on ARM (WOA) will come with Office 15 applications based on a blog post that said
“WOA includes desktop versions of the new Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.”.
We’ve been around Microsoft and Office long enough to know that you should not make any assumptions about such a sentence. It's intended to appear promising but is really vague. The key word ‘includes’ could mean almost anything and Microsoft knows that very well.
It could mean that Windows 8 on ARM is supplied with Office 15 applications in full, but that’s highly unlikely because it would reduce the money Microsoft can make from customers. Why give away something that people will pay for?
More likely ‘includes’ means something less than that. It might mean computer makers will be required to supply trial versions of Office 15 on ARM devices (which you can convert to full versions via the online Microsoft Store), or some variant of the Office Starter edition available for Office 2010 on some new computers, or Office Web Apps are available on the devices. At worst ‘includes’ could just mean that Office 15 for ARM is available for purchase,
We think it’s very likely there’ll be some type of trial or starter version of Office 15 for ARM, if only to assure customers that the new devices have a version of Microsoft Office that works.
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