Office 2016 is now rolling out to Office 365 subscribers. To help you make the most of it is Office 2016: the real startup guide. “Things you need to know that Microsoft won’t tell you: saving money, installing, configuring and using Office 2016 for Windows” Office 2016: the real startup
Update: this article has been superseded by a November 2015 article Switch from Office 2013 to Office 2016 – the real story which covers more recent changes and traps in the Office 2016 for Windows install options. To say nothing of our famous and popular guide to Office 2016 for
“I’ve got a renewal notice for my Office 365 subscription saying that I’ll pay $9.99 a month automatically off my credit card. I remember you saying that offers direct from Microsoft are overpriced … does that apply to renewals?” Arnold W. NY Yes, it certainly does. Renewing direct with Microsoft
Unlike consumer subscribers of Office 365, organizations using Microsoft Office have more options for deploying Office 2016. If your organization is on a Volume Licencing agreement, the Office 2016 install files will be available for download from 1st October 2015 (not the 22 Sept general release date). Introducing Current Branch
Microsoft has released a little information about how they are releasing Office 2016/Win into the wild for consumers. Very little info indeed, just one sentence (see below). We’ll tell you what we know, can find out and how to stop Microsoft forcing Office 2016 on you. Office 2016 for consumers
Next Tuesday will see the official release of Office 2016 for Windows. It’s more of a marketing landmark than a genuine release since the preview software has been available to almost anyone for months. The Office 2016 for Windows release events might be sub-titled ‘Much ado about nothing’The Office 2016
Microsoft has released updates to the free Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 – Word Mobile, Excel, Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, and OneNote. But what are you getting in the updates? There’s nothing with the updates to tell you. The Windows 10 Store seems to have no provision for documenting updates
Editing an image in Office is not a way to hide the original details or redact a photo. Images in a document can be fully redacted by replacing the image with black box (or other full color block). But what if only want to hide/redact part of the image? That’s
More on redacting or editing to hide your personal information. We’ve already shown you how to redact in Word, but what about images and PDF files? Images Almost any image editor will let you black out parts of the picture. Here’s how with Windows Paint, which comes with all versions
Redaction is ‘black-lining’ a document so other people can’t see personal or confidential information. Governments, companies and individuals all do it, though few go as far as the European Commission which released a 14 page letter from a tobacco company with almost completely redacted including, in some cases, the page
As a long time space buff, anything NASA related will get a look from me but http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/ is really impressive. Anyone interested in the first manned moon landing will love the site: They’ve combined and synchronized the audio, video and some data from the landing sequence into a single display.
In the UK there’s a very sad example of email going awry. Hundreds of people with HIV being ‘outed’ when a London clinic sent out an email newsletter wrongly. A staffer at the clinic sent out a regular newsletter but put the names & emails of the recipients in the
Microsoft has released a new Office app called Snip. Snip is a way to grab images from your screen or camera, edit them and then insert into Office documents or emails as well as share on social media. Snip is from Microsoft Garage meaning it’s in preview and perhaps a
WinFuture is reporting that Office 2016 for Windows will be officially released on 22 September 2015, quoting a screen shot from an internal Microsoft site. Source: Microsoft (allegedly) via WinFuture. An interesting bit of news, if true, but it raises some questions. Does the date matter? Does Office 2016 for
Computer security company, FireEye, is reporting that a ‘malicious Word document’ is being used to infiltrate governments in Asia, especially India. China is named as the probable source of these attacks over the last four years using a hack called ‘Watermain’. Since this report involved Microsoft Office, Office-Watch.com was interested.
The latest Office 2016 preview has upgraded the existing collaboration features to include ‘real time’ co-authoring. If you’re having a touch of ‘déjà vu’ right now … it not your imagination. Microsoft has announced document collaboration so, so many times over the years. But each time the press falls for
Here’s a strange little trap for people using Outlook Contact Groups. A message from Outlook to a group of people was marked as spam by one mail system. The reason given is something we’ve not seen before: 2.5 SORTED_RECIPS Recipient list is sorted by address This comes from Spam Assassin, a
We’ve been writing Office-Watch.com for almost 20 years and still our readers manage to surprise us. All our readers Sway questions are about using it offline and privacy of data in Sway presentations. The number and nature of the questions was unexpected. They are good questions and not just because
Here’s a quick overview of Sway. It’s easy to use (certainly easier for beginners than PowerPoint) so the best way to learn Sway is to ‘dive in’ and try it out. Sway is primarily a web based system, much like Office Online (Word, Excel or PowerPoint in a browser). Go
Microsoft Sway is now available to the general public. We told you about Sway last year when it was announced. Microsoft is calling it a ‘digital storytelling’ app which is a bit of unhelpful marketing jargon. Instead, think of Sway as a 21st Century version of PowerPoint. Cloud based, interactive,
Microsoft has released Outlook connections for the Apple Watch. With an iPhone and connected Apple Watch you’ll be able to access some Outlook email, calendar details from the tiny Watch screen. Source: Microsoft According to Microsoft the Watch app can: Give you a quick glance at the Outlook Inbox or
There’s a quick way to change the default email font in Outlook but, as is often the case with Office, the standard advice is incomplete. We’ll show you more about email fonts than Outlook help usually does. The clickbait headline Your E-mail Font Is Ruining Your Life has been appearing
With all the talk of Windows 10, even Microsoft forgot to promote a major expansion of Office for iPhone and iPad. The Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for iOS have been updated in a big way but there’s no mention on Microsoft’s own site, not even the usual blog post.
Frank B from Iowa has an interesting idea for Outlook: “Search folders can be a great tool if there’s just one simple filter, but what if you don’t want to see message from Sally, Sue, and John, but everyone else? “ In other words, Frank wants the reverse of a
