Office for Windows has various ‘touch screen’ options. They don’t amount to much more than allowing Microsoft to say that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook are ‘touch enabled. Here’s what’s available with Office for Windows on a touch screen. Ribbon spacing Microsoft’s main claim to ‘touch features’ in Office for Windows rests on this option […]
What can you do with a file attachment that has no file extension? Sometimes you get a file, probably an email attachment, that has no file extension. Without something after the dot/period (.doc .docx .xlsx .pptx etc.) Windows doesn’t know what program to use. This is most likely to happen with files sent from Mac […]
All the talk about the major outage at Facebook overwhelmed the news that Microsoft had connection troubles of their own. The six hours offline at Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp rightly attracted all the attention. It wasn’t just an inconvenience but crippling for many businesses that rely on Facebook to connect to customers. Sites that use […]
Improve your Word, Excel, Outlook or PowerPoint Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) beyond the small changes allowed by Microsoft directly. This works in all modern Office for Windows including Microsoft 365, Office 2016/2019/2021/LTSC. You’ll be able to shorten the overly long text labels or change icons (because too many are the same) with a short list […]
Microsoft has slightly changed the name of the new Office LTSC product, perhaps as a clue to their future intentions for the Long-Term Servicing Channel product line. Office LTSC is a new perpetual licence version of Microsoft Office for volume licence customers only. The consumer / small business equivalent is Office 2021. LTSC stands for […]
