Seems everyone with a web page has thoughts on Windows 10 based on just a carefully planned demo from Microsoft. Many of the comments have taken Microsoft’s statements at face value without any critical eye. We won’t go into detail, we have MS Office to deal with, but here’s some
Many reports about hacking into ‘Outlook’ had many regular Outlook software users rightly worried, especially if they are in China, Hong Kong or Macau. Don’t panic – a lot of the reporting was poorly worded and showed an ignorance of the difference between Outlook software (as sold/rented with Microsoft Office)
It’s been a long-standing problem for laptop users – you have Outlook running nicely at home but when you travel it’s impossible to send messages. Here’s what’s happening and how to avoid it. The fix, that should work for most situations is to change the Outlook account settings to login
It’s happened again … Microsoft releases updates for Outlook which break the important IMAP feature that many people rely upon. After installing some of the November 2014 updates, some Outlook users find their IMAP or Exchange Server connections stop synchronizing. And Microsoft’s response has been typical – almost complete silence.
It’s an old problem that keeps coming up – an email arrives with a winmail.dat attachment. We’ll explain and how to fix it from receivers and senders point of view. Winmail.dat problems were once common. They don’t happen a lot these days because Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server both have
It’s an old problem that keeps coming up – an email arrives with a winmail.dat attachment. We’ll explain and how to fix it from receivers point of view. Winmail.dat problems were once common. They don’t happen a lot these days because Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server both have default options
Here’s what to do if someone complains that you’re sending winmail.dat attachments with your emails. The problem is in Outlook and you need to change some settings. The setting might be global for all emails but you may need to check the settings for an individual contact or email address.
The BBC has an interesting piece on the effect of AutoCorrect and word suggestions for quicker typing. I dunno about ‘boring’ but AutoCorrect in Office does have a downside – it makes you and your typing fingers stupid. If you type stupdi into Word it will fix it to
Microsoft has released its monthly security patches for January 2015 but no fix for the broken patch from last month! All the talk has been about Google’s disclosure of a security flaw in Windows just before Microsoft released a fix for the problem. Lots of accusations flying both ways on
Microsoft has expanded the beta testing of Microsoft Office for Android to anyone with a compatible device. Not just the approved beta testers. But there’s a catch … you need a compatible Android device and not all Android tablets will qualify. Office for Android needs: An ARM based device (most
Of course, you can’t fully send emails from Outlook if the computer isn’t connected to the Internet … but it’s surprising how many people don’t know they can write and click Send any time – whether the computer is connected to the Internet or not. We often use the relatively
Q: Andy Walter writes: I have been using your Function BackupBackend () for a few years now (Many many thanks) but recently I have had to password protect the backend of my database to stop Mr Sticky Fingers. Unfortunately with the Password in place, I get the following Error. Not
By Helen Feddema Access versions: 2007-2013 Level: Intermediate Introduction Word has a sophisticated Table of Contents feature that automatically creates a table of contents from designated headings in a document. Access reports don’t have such a feature, but I managed to create one using VBA code, custom database properties and
On the TV show ‘The West Wing’ news stories the administration wanted the public to overlook were released on ‘Friday Trash Day‘. In the real world, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has another term for the same practice. The NSA calls it ‘Christmas Eve’. It was on the afternoon of
The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting has released the emails of Governor Jeb Bush during his tenure as Florida’s governor. That’s of interest to us since the information is available in its original Outlook data file form. Before anyone gets angry with us … we are not making any political
One of the frustrations about the ‘pane’ interface in Office 2010 and Office 2013 is the failure to include all the features that customers were accustomed to from the standard File dialog boxes. Microsoft added new and useful features like pinning and removing from the list (for privacy) but didn’t
One of the automatically installed patches for Office causes a new bug! Ouch. The new bugs aren’t common but even so, they are embarrassing. You can find the details under the Knowledge Base article headed ““Cannot insert object” error in an ActiveX custom Office solution after you install the MS14-082
Slow, but surely, the online version of Microsoft Office gets better. Word online will never have everything that Word for Windows or Mac does, but it’s becoming more viable for occasional users and as a backup in case your usual software fails. It also adds some interesting features that’s aren’t
When you type or paste a web link into Office, it normally converts it into a web link automatically. But occasionally that feature doesn’t work right. We found one example when researching the famous artist Roy Lichtenstein and one of his best known works. Click on the image to see
A friend is expecting a parcel via Fedex and got the email shown below, so they wondered if it was really from the courier company or not. This particular email got past both the Gmail and Outlook spam filters. We thought it was a good example to use of the
John Harcourt-Rigg writes …. “Could you tell me why Microsoft do not offer a similar discount programme for users of Microsoft Office 365 that users receive in USA. That is a discount for: Serving Members, and retired Military Veterans Australian VETS have served side by side with USA veterans in
UPDATE: we’ve totally updated this article see How to get a refund of Office 365 With the release of the ‘free’ Office for iPhone/iPad apps with many editing features, there’s probably some unhappy Office 365 subscribers out there. If you bought Office 365 for the editing features in Office for iPad
We’ve already mentioned that the ‘free’ Office Mobile apps (for iPhone, iPad and soon Android) actually have some features that are only available to Office 365 subscribers … but what? The editing options available in the current apps is quite extensive and surprisingly generous. For most people, they’ll be able
Q: Arne Johnston writes that he has four phone number fields in a table, but that is not enough. How can he handle this better? A: For phone numbers, emails and other IDs, a separate linked table is best. I have one with just three fields: CompanyID (links to the
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