It started as just a little outage of Microsoft Teams but things soon got a lot worse for customers relying on Microsoftâs online services during a widespread outage on Thursday 21st July 2022. According to Microsoft, the trouble started with a âbroken connection to an internal storage serviceâ. It initially
Excel Live is a new way to fully cooperate on a worksheet while in a Teams meeting. Itâs always been possible to show an Excel worksheet in a group video meeting by one person sharing their screen which has Excel open. Excel Live lets you open a worksheet in a
Ever wondered what happens if you miss your Microsoft 365 payment deadline? Office Watch deliberately skipped the due dates to find out. Microsoft 365 works off what Microsoft calls a âsubscriptionâ model of (usually) annual payments. That applies to all Microsoft 365 products, Family or Personal software plans plus the
Office for Windows comes in two flavors called Click to Run (CtR) or MSI hereâs how to tell which one you have and why it, sometimes, matters. Weâll also explain the two terms. Which Office install you have (Click-to-Run or MSI) should not matter but occasionally a support page or
Microsoft Word’s language tools are more than just red or blue squiggly lines. There’s help to choose alternative words, alternate languages, check and improve grammar, hyphenate documents and even test the document for readability. You may think you know all about the language tools, but Word always has a few
Add the Smiling (grinning) Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat đ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Smiling (or grinning) Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat đ emoji is normally used to express a close call, or nerves
Outlook 365 for Windows is getting a Notifications pane which lets you know about @mentions of you in emails or documents plus some other timely alerts. Itâs already in the browser based Outlook. Notifications are mainly aimed at letting you know when youâre @mentioned in emails or documents within your
Microsoft was addressing the long-standing problems with Excel 365 importing text files (.CSV) by adding some options to prevent common conversion problems. The ‘Automatic Data Conversion’ choices are welcome, but you’re still better using other, safer, Excel import options. NOTE: this feature has been quietly dropped by Microsoft. The Automatic
Outlook for Windows has a broken search feature, again, for some mailboxes. The problem is seemingly caused by faulty Window 11 update. The problem is with the Windows Indexing Service which creates an index of files, documents and contents of Outlook data files (PST or OST) for quick search results.
Insert the Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes đ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes đ emoji is used to express joyfulness, excitement, or happiness. Itâs similar to Grinning Face đ but with different eyes that are meant
Without any warning, Microsoft stopped their new macro blocking system (called MOTW or Mark of the Web). Now Office for Windows is less secure without customers getting any warning. UPDATE: the whole ‘on again, off again’ saga continues. On 20 July 2022, Microsoft resumed rollout of the MOTW and Office
How to make document comments and markup appear in a PDF version of a Word document plus some options available to control what appears in the PDF copy. Modern Word documents can contain a history of the changes made, especially in a shared/collaborative document. Thereâs also comments made by people
The newest Microsoft Outlook, formerly called âOne Outlookâ or âProject Monarchâ, is now available via the Microsoft Store. Microsoft insists on calling this software merely âOutlook for Windowsâ which is silly and deliberately confusing. Weâll call it âOne Outlookâ which was Microsoftâs naming until recently. That will distinguish it from
Excel 365 for Windows users might have received a nasty shock in the last few days with their cells disappearing behind white or grey. Hereâs what happened, how to fix it plus wondering why it took Microsoft over a week to push out the fix. Hereâs an example of the
Microsoft once published a list of “Top Grammar Mistakes” in Microsoft Word, but what’s really going on with that list and the technology behind it? Unlike others, we’re not content just to copy Microsoft’s 2017 list. We’ll show how the grammar checks really work in the latest Word. One of
There are two keyboard shortcuts to highlight text in Word, for some reason Microsoft has hidden the main one and the alternative has an annoying inconsistency. All the regular Office shortcuts should be in the tooltip label that appears when the mouse is hovered over a button. But the Highlight
If you get an unexpected phone call from Microsoft, hang up on them. Itâll be a scam where you could lose thousands and precious personal data from your computer. Weâve mentioned this before but reminded by this Australian article warning that just in âOzâ people have lost an estimated AUD$2
Use the ListNum field in Word to insert sequential numbers, letters or legal numbering anywhere in a document. ListNum is the way to number or order items in ways not possible with the standard numbered or multi-level listing features. Just for starters, use ListNum to number things within a paragraph,
Officially a Gauge, dial or speedometer chart isnât available in Excel. Itâs a glaring omission from the in-built Excel charts but happily, itâs still possible with a little Excel trickery explained in this article. A âspeedoâ (Aussie slang), dial or gauge chart is made with a combination of Excelâs Doughnut
Add the Grinning Face with Big eyes aka Smiling Face with Open Mouth đ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. “Smiling Face with Open Mouth” is the official Unicode name for the đ emoji. It’s commonly labelled Grinning Face with
Undo Send, a feature in Outlook for Windows for as long as we can remember, has finally made it to Outlook 365 for Mac in a unnecessarily limited way. For as long as people have had email, theyâve wanted a way to take back a message theyâve sent. There are
PowerPoint 365âs Recording Studio can now work with the live video Cameo features, meaning you can record a presentation including video inserted from your webcam. The new feature is the combination of two recent PowerPoint 365 updates: Recording Studio lets you make a video of your presentation including hearing the
Despite appearances, Microsoft Wordâs Grammar and Style checks are not compulsory. There are simple but somewhat hidden controls to turn off the blue underline or dots for selected tests. This article explains how to selectively turn of Microsoft Wordâs âGrammar and Refinementsâ checks either once only or for all your
