ISSUE 20.14 • 2023-04-03 MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan The Microsoft 365 app — formerly known as the Office 365 app — is what I call the Office “all-i
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Peter Deegan
AskWoody PlusTom,
What are you referring to costing $39.95 a year? Offhand I can’t think of any Microsoft 365 plan at that price (M365 Personal is US$69.95 with occasional discounts).
As ‘b’ said … the Microsoft 365 app is definitely free.
Most Microsoft 365 plans will add some extra features to their mobile apps but otherwise the mobile apps are available to all devices. Strictly speaking for all devices below 10.1″ screen size.
Please let us know so we can clarify for you and anyone else on this forum.
Cheers,
Peter Deegan
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Newsletter Editorno idea where the ‘BNut’ came from.
Yes you do. It came from the WNut. I’ve fixed it online.
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Tim W. Elder
GuestI’m interested in the Lens feature. Actually, anything to get an editable text file from a printed page or from a microfilm image. (My typing is bad!) However, these images tend to be of poor quality. Perhaps a pen scanner will help? I am using MS Word files on OneDrive, accessed thru an old Chromebook. Thanks for any suggestions.
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AskWoody PlusThe Home pane is the one that will appear by default when you first open / login to the Microsoft 365 app.
It depends on the device you’re using but on an iPhone (the only device I have to hand) there’s a Home button on the bottom row. That row doesn’t appear in Fig 1 of the article because I wanted to show the Quick Capture options. Here’s the bottom row as it appears in the iPhone app.
The Create button, at right, opens the Quick Capture menu seen in Fig 1 – yes, the labels ‘Create’ and ‘Quick Capture’ don’t match like they should <sigh>.
Cheers,
Peter Deegan
Tim W. Elder
GuestPeter, Thanks, but it looks like my “problem” may be that I don’t have a smartphone, just this Win 10 desktop and the old Chromebook. Tries before to get editable text from an image didn’t work, apparently because the image, (from 1890s printed pages) was so poor that it didn’t work. Also, I haven’t found a OneDrive User’s guide; does one exist?
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Peter Deegan
AskWoody PlusOneDrive is a cloud storage service, the scanning options are just a small side-benefit in some Microsoft mobile apps. If you don’t have a smartphone, the question is moot. Of course, you can save scanned images to OneDrive, but that’s possible from any software because to OneDrive it’s just another image.
Scanning from a smartphone app works OK for modern documents with recognizable fonts and clear contrast pages. In other words, the sort of ‘easy’ task for modern systems.
If you’re talking about old pages from more than a century ago, that’s probably another degree of difficulty. For that kind of work, best to get a proper scanner and software. Even then, as you say, the results might not be good. At best, any OCR’d text will be a starting point for manual text editing.
Scanners are fairly cheap these days. FWIW, I like the Canon LidE range because they are small and most need only a single cable USB connection and power.
Of course, many ‘all in one’ printers also include a scanning option.
You might need a bigger scanning surface/glass, depending on the size of your pages. I once needed a bigger scanner to capture old vinyl album covers — too wide for A4/Letter/Legal scanners.
For scanning software, Win10/11 has basic scanning tools.
There’s also the software that comes with the scanner (download from the makers web site, ignore any CD/DVD in the box).
I think highly of VueScan https://www.hamrick.com/ which works for almost any scanner. Especially handy for older scanners no longer supported by the hardware maker. Many, many options including OCR.
Peter D/
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AskWoody PlusI have an iPad and want to try the Microsoft 365 mobile app on it. I went to the Apple Store and ‘got’ it. I’m able to open it and have hit the ‘+’ for ‘Create’, have selected Word, and have selected ‘Blank document’, which says at the top, “To edit or save, sign in with a subscription.” I don’t have a subscription. I thought this is a free app! It doesn’t seem that way.
In addition, although I have a blank document, there is no keyboard pop-up that allows me to enter anything. So, where is the pop-up keyboard? I’ve tapped here and there, but I see no keyboard or icon to access it. And, what good does it do to create something from a blank document when it’s not possible to save it or edit it, according to the notice at the top (assuming I find the keyboard)??
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Peter Deegan
AskWoody PlusIt depends on the screen size of your iPad – I suspect your iPad has a screen larger than 10.1″? Microsoft defines any device with a screen larger than 10.1″ as a computer (not a portable device) which needs a Microsoft 365 license to work.
That MS rule applies to all the Office apps, not just the Microsoft 365 app e.g. the separate Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps.
The missing on-screen keyboard is, I suspect, linked to the licensing issue. Without an M365 plan, the apps will only view documents not edit them. Since there’s no editing areas available, a keyboard doesn’t appear … it’s not needed. Show/hiding the on-screen keyboard is likely controlled by the Apple OS, not individual apps.
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