It’s hard enough for people to keep straight what is the latest version of Microsoft Office without some web sites getting it horribly wrong. The current Microsoft Office products are confusing, no doubt about it. Microsoft keeps changing their product names, policies and features. Microsoft’s ‘fixed’ support policy is written
The latest global exchange rates can go directly into Excel 365 for Windows and Mac. No plugins or extras are necessary because it’s in Excel 365 though it’s hiding away. Foreign exchange rates are part of the Stock data type. They weren’t part of the original Stocks data feed but
When Microsoft announced it was firing news human editors and replacing them with ‘Artificial Intelligence’, it was only a matter of time before the AI system would get it wrong. No-one expected it to happen so soon, even before all the humans had left the building. There’s a lesson in
Some useful new features have now been rolled out to the public versions of Microsoft 365 (Office 365) for May 2020. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook all have improvements. Two we’ve already told you about, the other is new. Stock Images, Cutout People and Stickers Or what Microsoft calls “New
If you’ve lost or accidently deleted a Word for Mac document (or Excel or PowerPoint) there are various places to look for it some might not occur to you. This article is also helpful if you’re trying to find and delete any files or documents that must be removed for
Some more tricks for improving or fixing rounded corner boxes in Office. Change the corner angle or roundness even to a stadium shape. Alter the border line a little or a lot. Make a Word text box with rounded corners explains the basics of making the rectangular box into something
‘Tell me’ help box is now in Microsoft/Office 365 for Mac as a way to find features on the ribbon. However it continues to have the same limitations that are in the Windows version. Look for the lightbulb and ‘Tell me’ box beside the ribbon tabs. Type in a phrase
Samsung’s new Access plan lets you pay a set price each month, get a replacement phone every nine months plus a Microsoft 365 ‘subscription’ plan as well. Is the Microsoft 365 element optional or even make sense (especially if you already have ‘Office 365’ as was)? It’s an interesting way
At long last, Microsoft and VMWare have decided to ‘play nice’ and allow their virtual machine products to run on Windows at the same time. Until now, Windows users wanting virtual machines had to choose between Hyper/V (comes with higher end Windows 10) or Vmware Workstation. You could not run
PowerPoint has an option to ‘zoom out’ on a still image from a close-up view to a wider look at the same picture. It’s not a great option and Microsoft could make it a lot easier. Here’s how to do a ‘Zoom out’ on an image This is an endnote
A UK politician got caught sending an email with optional stock phrases and guides still in the message. Is there a simple way to stop that happening? Most organizations have standard wording and stock phrases which is understandable but there’s a risk those helpers are left in an email or
Helen Feddema our Access guru is looking for people to test her Time & Expense application … “After a long delay, I have updated my Time & Expense application for Office 365 (it is my Coronavirus project!). The app uses custom Journal items to record time worked and expenses incurred
Microsoft Excel is the perfect tool to analyze and rank your fantasy football ranking. This article explains how to import players, other rankings and add your own opinion. How to Build Your Own Fantasy Football Rankings “There is no reason to re-invent the wheel by typing out all of the
We continue our look at the options for the ‘Ken Burns Effect’ in PowerPoint by combining the pan and zoom animation features into a complete effect. It adds interest and movement to a still image with two separate animation effects available, in part, in PowerPoint. Ken Burns Effect in PowerPointThe
One of our readers just saved over 20% on her Microsoft 365 renewal using one of Microsoft’s own products – Outlook! Julia A. a long-time Office-Watch.com reader took our advice about early renewal of Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365). She just bought another year of Microsoft 365 from a retailer
Not sure when your Microsoft 365/Office 365 plan expires? Go to https://www.office.com/ login with the Microsoft account linked to your Office 365/Microsoft 365 plan. Look for the icon at top right, it looks different for each person and might be your initials. Choose ‘My Account’. Then ‘Services & Subscriptions’ on
Word, Excel and PowerPoint 365 for Windows are getting better control over what appears on the new-style Save dialog. Folders can be ‘pinned’ to always be show up in the list and a quick way to share a document. But a major annoyance remains unchanged. On the ‘Save this file’
The promise of shared Outlook signatures is a little closer. Microsoft has announced that signatures in Outlook for Windows will be saved to the cloud from June 2020. At the moment, customers have to manually copy email signatures between Outlook’s or use a folder sync method to share the signature
A friend of Office Watch has enhanced our latest COVID-19 global statistics workbook and offered to share it with all our readers Phil Y from Sydney is interested in the number of active Coronavirus cases and how many new cases. That data was in the external connection so he made
Chris Pratt released a video showing 51,000 emails being deleted from his computer. Are they really completely lost? We doubt it. On Instagram we see his shock as the Trash folder gradually counts down the messages being removed from his computer. That’s supposedly the 51,000 Inbox messages that he’d promised
When Outlook displays a ‘This will be permanently deleted’ it’s not really deleted. For anyone interested in the gory details or testing themselves, here’s how we checked that out. It’s standard database procedure for a deleted record simply to be flagged ‘deleted’ rather than fully erased or overwritten. Tagging as
Outlook for Windows and Mac can easily add appointments or events using times from another time zone. They’ll show up and remind you in your local time. That’s really handy for global meetings or live streams scheduled in other locations. Enter the Outlook appointment or event using the time and
Now we’re allowed out again, social distancing signs are popping up all over the place. They are simple to make in Microsoft Word using a few lesser known tricks. Here’s five examples that use some of the latest features in Word 365 like Cutout People plus some Word tricks learnt
Anyone who has tried to buy a webcam knows they are now expensive or there’s a long wait for delivery. There’s a very cheap alternative to a webcam that you can use today for very little money and the camera could be better than separate camera. We weren’t surprised to
