Microsoft 365 – the subscription / annual fee plan for Microsoft Office on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Includes Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365, Outlook 365 and many other ‘365’ programs, apps and services.
Setup one thing Microsoft 365 can’t do, web site hosting
Microsoft 365 hosting plans are great and do most things a small business or organization needs except one thing … a public web site. Here’s how to setup a simple web site within Microsoft 365 hosted systems. For an organization or small business, Microsoft 365 hosting has most tech needs covered. Email, calendar, contacts, cloud […]
Word’s =Rand() around the World
=Rand.old() is a Word trick which adds common sentences that use all, or most, of the letters in that language’s alphabet. Here’s what Word does in English, French, German, Danish, Polish and many other languages. It’s useful filler text for testing formatting or other Word features just like “Lorem Ipsum …”. The sentence changes for […]
Get more from Mark Index features in Microsoft Word
Behind the simple Mark Index feature in Word are some useful but almost hidden options. These give you many choices for making and formatting your document index. Getting started with indexes in Word? Check out our starter, Simple Indexing in Microsoft Word. Indexes are as much art and judgment as science so there’s always room […]
Exchange Server attacks aren’t over … until all the checks are done
The fallout continues from the recent ‘Hafnium’ Exchange Server attacks. There are warnings from Microsoft for administrators who might think they are safe from infection of their systems. According to Microsoft 94% of Exchange Server systems are now protected from attacks caused by a bug in the Microsoft software. That’s great but you have to […]
Easter Bunnies and more in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint etc.
Yes, there are bunnies and other secular Easter graphics waiting for you in Microsoft 365 and Office 2019. Icons and Illustrations (both types of SVG) have some Easter or at least bunny related graphics. Stock Images also have some choices. Religious choices are missing but there are Christian or Latin Crosses available in Office. Here’s […]
Hidden picture info in your Office documents
The BBC has a ‘long read’ about hidden information inside almost all photos. Office Watch has talked about this problem many times before including how the extra image data hides in Microsoft Office documents, despite the ‘Document Inspector’. It’s too easy just to think of an image as just what you see on the screen […]
Deleting Microsoft accounts gets man two years jail
A man has been jailed for two years after sabotaging a company by deleting 80% of their Microsoft 365 accounts – email, calendars, contact lists, docs, the lot. What did he do and what organizations should do to prevent a similar catastrophe. Deepanshu Kher worked for an IT consultancy and was deployed to work at Carlsbad […]
Why WebView2 is being quietly installed into Windows
A new Windows component WebView2 is being quietly installed on Windows computers, mostly for Microsoft Office. Here’s what WebView2 is and that the acronym WVRT means. Most people won’t have noticed a new ‘optional’ feature added to their Windows 10 in the last week or so. Go to Settings | Apps and Features then search […]
Message Trace – the way to find missing Microsoft 365 emails
Trying to find a missing message or why an email is in a particular folder? For Microsoft 365 hosted accounts the place to start is Message Trace Microsoft 365 / Exchange Server admin has a system for tracking all messages. Other Exchange Server systems have a similar feature for administrators. Maybe someone swears they sent […]
How we made the ‘Adjust your monitor’ sign
Re-creating the “Don’t be a Spock” sign in Word wasn’t hard especially since the original sign seen at the laboratory was probably made in Microsoft Word. Here are some comments on the design. The standard Arial font was used throughout. The two images and captions are in a 2 x 2 cell table with spacing […]
The case of the missing file extension
You’ve received a document, but when you try to open it, the file stubbornly won’t appear! We explain how to fix it. Our editor-in-chief saw that problem in an Internet cafe‚ in Ketchikan, Alaska and was surprised when neither the manager of the store nor the cruise computer ‘expert’ knew the answer. As you probably know, […]
Black Right Pointing index ☛ symbol in Office
How to insert the Black Right Pointing index ☛ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Black Right Pointing index ☛ symbol can be used for pointing a direction on a sign or as a different bullet symbol. There’s also a similar, lesser known symbol Black […]
Microsoft 365 cloud outages, what happened and what you can do
Another bad week for Microsoft’s customers who rely on the Microsoft 365 hosting and other cloud technologies. There were global outages for more than half a day in Teams, Azure, Xbox Live and many other Microsoft Cloud services. All should be restored by the time you read this but there are still questions about what […]
Outlook for Mac vital tips and traps with Gmail
Outlook 365 for Mac has a more complete connection to Gmail accounts which includes calendar and contacts. But it’s not a simple link and there are so many ‘gotchas’ we wonder if it’s worth the trouble. Microsoft is hyping an Outlook for Mac feature that synchronizes not just mail, but also calendar and contacts. But […]
Three sources for an X in Word or PowerPoint
Where can you find an X symbol to overlay (or go under) text as used in Three ways to overlay X on text in Word ? As usual in modern Office, there’s plenty of choices available either within the product or from elsewhere. Icons Office 365 and Office 2019 apps have Icons, actually SVG graphics. […]
Three ways to overlay X on text in Word
It’s easy to overlay an X over a letter or word in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, once you know the tricks and alternatives available in Office. An overlaid X is an alternative to strikethrough. It works better on large text or signs. There are at least three different ways to get the X overlay effect. […]
