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.
Bogus Microsoft 365 message “We can’t cancel your subscription”
Customers trying to cancel their recent Microsoft 365 plan might see a totally bogus message which wrongly claims that a cancel and refund isn’t possible. A thread on Microsoft ‘Answers’ includes a web page image from a customer trying to cancel Microsoft 365 Family. Microsoft had auto-renewed the plan but the customer didn’t want that. […]
Disable @ mentions in Outlook 365
@mentions can be very handy at ‘tagging’ people into an online conversation but they can also be a damned nuisance. Here’s how to disable @ mention in Outlook 365 for Windows. Microsoft has added @ mentions throughout the Microsoft 365 services including Teams and Office document collaboration. It’s great for tagging someone and bringing them […]
Trouble cancelling Microsoft 365 trial? Try this …
Too many people report problems cancelling Microsoft 365 trial subscription. Here’s the steps to stopping the trial and what to do if cancelling doesn’t work properly. Microsoft has offered a free one-month trial of Office for a long time and for all that time there have been problems. People try to cancel before the end […]
Microsoft 365 money saving roundup
Office-Watch.com is always on the lookout for ways to save money on buying Microsoft Office. Here’s a summary of the tips we’ve discovered over the years. Microsoft 365 Family (with six users) is the main seller and you can buy/renew it for less than the official price. Formerly Office 365 Home. Microsoft 365 Personal (the […]
Outlook gets better restart and reopen options
Outlook is finally getting some better start-up and reopening windows options though not perhaps as much as regular users are hoping for. Outlook 365 for Windows is getting an option to reopen windows that were live when the program closed. That means open emails, meetings etc can reappear automatically when Outlook restarts. The option is […]
More ideas for social distancing signs
If you’d like to make your social distancing sign stand out, check out some of these examples using animals and objects to explain the distance needed. And we have some more simple template Word signs for our newsletter readers. Here’s a simple example from the Sydney University Veterinary Hospital Use whatever animal is appropriate. In […]
Powerpoint speaks aloud in Office 365, 2019, 2016 and earlier
PowerPoint 365 way back to PowerPoint 2010 all have a ‘text to speech’ or ‘Speak’ feature to read aloud the text in a slide. It’s hiding away behind the ribbon but works fine once you’ve found it. The PowerPoint Speak or Real Aloud feature is similar to the Speak option in Word. Speak button can […]
Chromebook buying tips for Office users
A few quick notes if you’re buying a Chromebook to use with Microsoft Office. 4.5 ways to use Microsoft Office on a Chromebook ChromeOS is essentially the Chrome browser running in a separate device. Any web site or web based application that can run in the browser will work on a modern Chromebook. In recent […]
Outlook crashes thanks to Microsoft mistake
Microsoft has made a major blunder with the July patches for Office. An update can crash Outlook for Windows entirely and the reason for the problem makes the bug especially humiliating for Microsoft. We’ll explain Microsoft’s blunder, what you can do if affected and how to avoid the buggy patch. Outlook for Windows tries to […]
Read Aloud in Word 365 and 2019 in depth
Read Aloud is the newer and better form of the old Speak feature from Word 2016-2010. It’s available in Word 365 and Word 2019. Read Aloud has more controls than the older Speak feature and it appears in more places within Word. The voice selection and settings in Windows are very different. Windows has the […]
Excel eats Cake
The Excel team has joined the current ‘Cake’ meme with a new Cake() function in Excel. Hilarity ensues … Source: Twitter Ho ho, very funny, it is to laugh. Most people took the message in good spirit with one person implementing it in VBA That code really works. ChrW() returns the character with that Unicode […]
Comment View change in Word and Office
Microsoft continues to tinker update the Comments part of Word with yet more changes coming in Word 365. We’ll explain the new Comments view plus look over some of the Comments features from recent years. At last, users get some control over how comments appear. Not a lot of control but some. For many years, […]
2020 – Year of the Icon?
2020 will be remembered for many things (big sigh) but from a design viewpoint, it could be the Year of the Icon. Many of those graphics are available either in Office directly or imported from elsewhere – we’ll show you both. Everywhere you go there are signs reminding us of the new life we have […]
Two new video meeting options in Teams
Microsoft has added two genuinely new and interesting video meeting options to Teams. Together mode and Dynamic View plus some useful video filters. Both are innovative ways to display a large number of people in a virtual meeting. Having been caught napping by a combination of Coronavirus and Zoom, Microsoft has worked hard to bring […]
Microsoft 365 web page update
The Office.com home page is being updated or rather rearranged. The changed page has been described as ‘beautiful’ and ‘great’. The changes are gradually rolling out to enterprise Office 365 customers, presumably consumer Office 365 Home/Personal users will see the change a little later. The current Office.com page looks like this with the program icons […]
SLK files used to hack into Excel, again
Despite fair warnings, Microsoft has allowed an old Excel format .SLK to get past their email security and infect Excel for Windows computers. As reported by Avanan, criminals have found a way to bypass the email security for Office 365 hosted mailboxes (possibly Outlook.com as well), allowing an infected email attachment to reach Microsoft’s customers. […]
