Microsoft’s Exchange Server system had another snafu late last week, for a few hours all Inbox messages were sent to Junk Email instead! The problem affected users of Microsoft 365 mail hosting. It was caused by a ‘change’ that was applied to Exchange Server hosted by Microsoft. As with other
For just US$2,000 you can buy a way to hack into a computer via Microsoft Office. All you need to make your own malware is the money and a willing seller on the dark web. A recent survey by Trend Micro and reported by Dark Reading searching posts that advertised
Microsoft is expanding the reach of their Teams service with more personal and family related features available at no charge. Teams for Home is a repurposing existing Teams business features so they can bring together families and friends. All these features are free (there are some call limits). There are
Outlook 365 for Windows is getting an important security reminder, a message showing the last time someone logged into that account. Most Recent Login messages are a little security feature. It shows when and where the last sign-in to that account happened. A glance at that might be your first
Microsoft has been getting serious about drawing features in Office so we thought it was time to look at what’s available and possible across all the Office applications. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and some nice drawing stuff in OneNote Once upon a time, drawing onto a Word document or Excel worksheet
Make a draft email on a phone or tablet (maybe some quick notes) to later revise and send from Outlook for Windows/Mac. Once that was a problem but not any more, as long as you’re using Outlook mobile apps. Syncronizing the Drafts folder is really useful. You can write a
Getting to Outlook Forms and Templates is a hassle, hidden deep down in the menus. It’s possible to bypass all those clicks and open the Choose Form dialog directly and even a specific library. See Email templates give you faster messages in Outlook The published way to access templates and
Hyphenating words in Word has many choices; manual, optional, compulsory (non-breaking) and fully automatic. Manual Hyphen The simple one we all know. Type the – on the keyboard (properly known as the Hypen-Minus) to hyphenate a word, e.g. choreo-animator. See Of hyphens, em-dash, en-dash and more Automatic hyphenation Word will
Here are four different ways to make a new email from an Outlook template file without the hassle of going deep into Outlook’s menus. You can choose to start a template based message from Windows or a button inside Outlook. See Email templates give you faster messages in Outlook for
Here’s how to add a taste of the logo or text from ‘Friends’ sitcom to a Word document, PowerPoint slide or other document. That includes the important dots between letters. All you need is available online plus a little Office trickery. Note for old-timers (like Peter, our Editor-in-Chief). ‘Friends’ was
For emails that you send regularly, there’s a way to have a ‘boilerplate’ email template with most of the details already filled in. Messages can be sent faster and be more consistent. Welcome to the little-known world of Outlook email templates. Outlook email templates can have all the message details
Microsoft promotes OneDrive as protection against ransomware however our tests show it’s not always as practical or complete as the company boasts. One recovery feature works fine but the other isn’t complete. While updating our book Everyday Backups, we tested the OneDrive ransomware protections, not taking Microsoft’s word about how
Excel 365 for Windows is getting an expanded Linked Data Types feature with more categories of data and extra features. Here’s what’s possible and the traps that Microsoft doesn’t mention. Stock, Currency and Geography data types have been in Excel 365 (Windows and Mac) for some time. Now it’s expanding
Sometimes Excel 365’s Linked Data Types are great (Stock and Currencies) and other times they’ll drive you crazy or lead you to use wrong statistics. Here’s some problems we found trying out the, supposedly, simple City data type compared to the similar Geography and Location data types. Just getting the
Something new in Excel 365 Linked Data Types is nested data types. If a data field can itself be linked to another data type, Excel will add it automatically. See the ‘Director’ names (from the Movie data type) have little icons next to them? That’s because Excel has added the
How to insert the Psi upper case Ψ, and Psi lower case ψ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Psi (uppercase Ψ / lowercase ψ) is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet. The symbols are commonly used within physics to
A hacker trick is sending fake ‘file deletion’ email, taking advantage of a useful Microsoft service for all Microsoft 365 and OneDrive customers. If many files are deleted from a OneDrive account, Microsoft sends an email warning to the customer. It’s possible that the deletion was accidental, caused by ransomware
Insert the Xi upper case Ξ, and Xi lower case ξ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Xi (uppercase Ξ / lowercase ξ) is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet. The symbols are used within various contexts. The uppercase letter
” How can I enter a duration in Excel with the format days:hours:minutes:seconds ? If I enter 5:32 Excel converts that to 5:32am but I want to record 5 hours and 32 minutes.” Time durations aren’t very clear in Excel, but they are possible. The time features are mostly aimed
Microsoft hasn’t had a good week with their hosted email with two breakdowns of Exchange Online and Outlook.com services. One stopped emails in and out, the other prevented messages from being read. Both Exchange Online (Microsoft 365 hosted email) and Outlook.com run on the same or very similar systems. Usually
Flipgrid now joins YouTube, Vimeo, Stream and SlideShare as supported services for PowerPoint online videos. Microsoft’s Flipgrid is an education service for teachers to record videos to share with a class. Students can respond with their own recorded video segments. Drawing, text, emoji and other rich media are available for
A much-wanted feature is coming to PowerPoint, the ability to lock an object into position so it can’t accidently be moved out of place. Objects in a slide can too easily move out of place with an accidental tap of a mouse or finger. The problem is even worse with
The latest releases of Office for iPad are crashing when opening documents. Here’s what to do while Microsoft fixes the bug. The problem appears to happen when trying to open documents from OneDrive, which is the vast majority of documents because Microsoft encourages use of OneDrive. The bug is reported
Use Sequence() to get an ordered list of numbers either increasing or decreasing and with your choice of increments. Sequence is possibly the least understood of the dynamic array functions but combined with other functions it greatly extends Excel’s power. Sortby(), Filter(), Unique() and RandArray() all have obvious uses but
