A new Excel add-in converts an Excel 365 worksheet into a Visio diagram. You don’t need to buy Visio to use the Microsoft Visio Data Visualizer in its simple form, just Excel 365 for Windows/Mac or Online. It’s an interesting tool and worth checking out if you make diagrams or flowcharts. The add-in inserts example […]
OneNote for Windows has a better future after some reverse-course announcements from Microsoft. OneNote desktop program gets extended life and a promotion. The desktop and app versions merging into a single codebase. We’ll also explain the strange case of two OneNote for Windows. The announcements amount to a 180° reversal of past poor, short-sighted management […]
The first sign that OneNote 2016 is back from a slow death is the announcement of the first new feature in well over a year. OneNote 2016 is getting a Dark Mode just like the Mac and Apple apps. OneNote dark mode will be an option in OneNote 2016 for Windows but only for Office […]
Buying and using a computer keyboard from Microsoft is very annoying, based on what we’ve heard from Office Watch readers. Choosing a Microsoft keyboard is harder than necessary and finding help, even harder. Microsoft’s keyboard range is especially bad for not properly explaining all the features of the products, apparently as a deliberate corporate strategy. […]
We have recently discussed how to show hidden formatting characters in Word, but it is also possible to hide text and even images in Microsoft Word, as long as you are using Word on your computer. At this stage, Word Online and Word phone apps don’t allow you to hide text. See Find and Remove Hidden […]
Word is very clever dealing with Hidden text, perhaps a bit too clever at times. Here’s some tricks for positioning and formatting with Hidden text. Students quiz (left) and Teachers version (right) from the same document. The answer text is hidden in the student version but there’s still space for their answers. Leaving space where […]
If you want to remove hidden text from your Word document, you first need to find it. For a shorter document, you can use the Show/Hide button to see what’s hidden and delete it manually, but that would be very time consuming for longer documents with lots of hidden passages. Never fear, there are a […]
In Wales, all teachers and their students can get Office 365 free, instead of about ₤60, thanks to an initiative of the Welsh government. It’s worth checking what access to the full Office suite your school, college or university kids might have. The Welsh government has arranged this as part of the HWB scheme that […]
A new Office app for Android a single ‘all in one’ app for Microsoft Office. We’ve done our own look at the new app, not relying on Microsoft’s hype to check out the Home panel, Actions, Word, Excel and PowerPoint features, PDF viewing and options, ‘image to text’ features and how to bypass a major […]
A security vulnerability has been discovered in Excel for Mac. It’s been there for many years and affects Office 365, Office 2019, Office 2016 and Office 2011 for Mac. We have details and suggest a protection you can do yourself. It’s another problem with legacy support for an older Microsoft Office feature. In this case […]
Outlook for Mac also has Profiles to manage multiple setups on the one machine. Though they are managed very differently to Outlook for Windows, the basics are the same on both. To add a bit of confusion, profiles where called ‘identities’ up to Outlook 2011. Outlook 2016 and later for Mac use the ‘Profile’ name. […]
Outlook for Windows doesn’t have a direct way to rename an Outlook Profile but it’s still possible, Outlook for Mac, on the other hand, can rename a profile from the Manage Profiles list. It’s a good idea to properly label a Profile instead of using the one or two word names Microsoft defaults to. This […]
Outlook profiles is one of the most important but least known parts of the program. Profiles can be very useful, sometimes essential to getting Microsoft Outlook working. An Outlook profile is a group of settings for connecting to the email server, and where to store the emails and other data. A profile is created when […]
It was inevitable that phone scammers should try fooling Office 365 users into giving up their login details. Update: after this scam was publicized, the phishing email turned up in our Office 365 mailbox! Microsoft’s mail filtering let their customers down. Microsoft’s lapse let us show you a real example of the scam mail. The […]
The Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard is one of two new models with dedicated Office key and Emoji key. What’s this new keyboard like … aside from those innovations? We bought a Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard with our own money and gave it a long hard look. Source: Microsoft Note: this is the Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard released in […]
A nasty surprise for VMWare Workstation users after a recent Windows 10. Happily there’s an absurdly simple workaround and now a free update too! VMWare Workstation is popular virtual machine software. Among it’s many uses is running different versions or states of Microsoft Office on the one physical computer. Microsoft has a similar product Hyper/V […]
While we were looking for Publisher 2019 on Amazon, we found more obviously illegal sales of Microsoft Office products. We’ve mentioned this before. Blatantly illegal Office licences sold on Amazon by third-parties. Why is this MS Office is illegal? Office 2019 Professional Plus is not sold retail. It’s only sold as part of a volume […]
There is a stand-alone perpetual licence Publisher 2019. It’s hiding and Microsoft definitely doesn’t want people to find it, but it’s there. We’ll explain where to find Publisher 2019 among all the subscription options Microsoft would like you to buy. Publisher 2019 is the latest single purchase version of Publisher available to consumers. You’ll find […]
There are three little ‘gotchas’ with the Rewrite feature in Word 365 for Windows. One is unprecedented in the history of Microsoft Office. The ‘public’ feature isn’t available to everyone. Rewrite is the new cloud service that suggests alternatives to phrases in a document. The way it’s been released to the public is unusual […]
Make your worksheets look more compact and focused by hiding unwanted columns or rows. Hidden rows/columns still work in calculations, they can be referenced in formulas etc. It’s pretty straightforward. Select the columns or rows, right-click and choose Hide. Keyboard shortcuts Type Control + 9 to hide a row. Control + 0 to hide a […]
