If you’re not careful, Military and Veterans can pay more than they need to Office 365. For many years, Microsoft has offered a ‘Military Appreciation‘ discount to qualifying members of the US and Canadian armed forces. It doesn’t get a lot of attention but Office-Watch.com has done its best to
Microsoft has released the June 2016 updates to Office for Windows (Office 365 subscribers only) – both security and other updates. The new features are things we covered many months ago but are now available to the public. Office 2016: the real startup guide has full coverage of all these
Here’s the complete list of June 2016 updates to Office 2016 for Windows. This is what Microsoft calls the ‘Deferred Channel’ that’s sent to all subscribers every four months. June 14, 2016 Version 1602 (Build 6741.2048) Access: Security updates This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins:
The Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365 sounds promising for anyone with Outlook troubles – but what does it actually do and for whom? Go to https://diagnostics.outlook.com/#/Download?env=Outlook to get about a 50MB download. It promises to “Support and Recovery Assistant works by running tests to figure out what’s
Office for Windows Mobile has some additional features now available in preview. If you’re in the Windows Insiders program, you can download v17.7070 or later from the Windows Store. Color selection is better with a wider range available including Recent, Theme and Standard colors. The More Colors option has a
Microsoft is adding to Office naming confusion by giving us THREE products they call ‘Office 2016’. First Office 2016 for Windows – the traditional desktop suite for Windows that most people think of when you say ‘Office’ or ‘Office for Windows’. Confusingly, Microsoft decided to also call the latest version
Microsoft has paid $26.5 billion cash for LinkedIn, does that mean some good news for Outlook users? $26.5 billion is a lot of money, even by Microsoft’s standards where mere millions are considered as petty cash or rounding errors. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll see LinkedIn return to Outlook? Outlook 2010
Microsoft’s Delve now has a Windows 10 app. You need a school or work Microsoft account to use Delve. Check out our article What is Delve? to find out more.
Though it’s probably no real surprise, a new report ranks Microsoft Office skills as highly desirable for any prospective employer. First, a note about the source of these ‘facts’ and who paid for the report. The report comes from IDC and is ‘sponsored’ by Microsoft. IDC makes that clear at
Microsoft has released ‘Office Online Server’ but what is it and should we care? Everyone can use the ‘Office Online’ services, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote which let you use basic versions of those programs in your browser. Even for regular Office software users, the Online versions are a handy
It’s that time of year again and Office-Watch.com has a little fun seeing how Microsoft Word’s dictionary compares to the winners of the Scripps (US) National Spelling Bee. Surprisingly, Word did better in 2016 than past years, despite the words being harder. Still, no chance of Word reaching the finals
The stream of updates (or feature ‘catch up’ depending on your point of view) continues with Office for Android getting the ‘Tell me’ help system that’s already in other incarnations of Office. The ‘Tell me’ icon is a lightbulb. Office for Android (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) has it on the
The Norwegian experiment of reading out Terms and Conditions got us wondering about how long the Microsoft Office Terms and Conditions really are. It’s a bit like asking ‘How long is a piece of string’? It depends on what you think is part of Office. There’s the initial software licence
It’s almost hard to believe it’s 2016 and yet Office for Mac customers still can’t rely on password compatibility with Office for Windows. In Office for Windows we’re used to making password protected documents with long passwords, up to 255 characters long if you’re enthusiastic. But Office 2016 for Mac
If you like The West Wing, you’ll probably enjoy http://thewestwingweekly.com/ a podcast that’s going per episode through the series. What makes it special is that the co-host is Joshua Malina, who joined the cast in later series as Will Bailey. He gives some insight into the making of TV from
Gotta love the Norwegians (Hi Jannicke!) when they make a point by reading aloud the Terms and Conditions for popular services like Twitter, Instagram etc. It took them over 31 hours (31 hours, 49 minutes and 11 seconds) to read 250,000 words (Moby Dick is around 206,000 words). Which got us
Microsoft Store is offering a discount on Office 2016 subscriptions and single perpetual licences, but it’s not much of a deal. These deals aren’t bad, but you can get pretty much the same prices anytime from other stores. Other stores also have discounts for other Office 365/Office 2016 products that
How to lock your PowerPoint presentation from editing – the whole thing or just part of it. This is to complete our look at the locking/read only options in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and now PowerPoint. Read only x 2 There’s two ways to make a PowerPoint presentation ‘Read only’
The Guardian in the UK has a nice summary of the latest advice for making secure, but memorable, passwords. Having a long password, at least 12 characters, makes it harder for brute force attacks on your account. To make a memorable password, think of a phrase you remember from a
The Office apps for Windows 10 continue to receive updates of ‘new’ features. These ‘new’ features are things any Office for Windows/Mac user would take for granted. Microsoft makes it harder to use these apps with truly awful and disorganized documentation. There’s a much linked page but the first section
Microsoft is adding Urdu language support to Office for Android, but Office 2016 for Windows got there first. Urdu is one of the many languages of India and Pakistan, spoken by at least 60 million people. Coming ‘soon’ will be the option to use Office for Android devices in Urdu.
Here’s how to save an Outlook message or other item to PDF. Use this to save copies of important or reference emails like airplane bookings, hotel reservations etc. After all Microsoft’s talk about PDF support in Office, it’s disappointing to realize that you can’t Save As … from Outlook to
Microsoft has announced some upcoming changes to Outlook for Mac. The email editor is getting a long-overdue revamp, starting with better image and text choices. Outlook for Windows users will be amazed that these features aren’t in the Mac version already. While Microsoft is putting a positive spin on these
Winnebago County, Illinois has to pay Microsoft $283,000 for installing the wrong version of their Office suite. The Country had bought a volume licence for Microsoft Office Standard but had been installing Office Professional instead. Office Standard has all the usual Office programs including Outlook. Office Professional Plus adds Access,
