All about Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and earlier versions.
Microsoft’s Copilot Merge Eats Your OneDrive Space and Cuts Features
Microsoft is merging its two Copilot apps into one, and the changes buried under that announcement will cost you storage space, features or money. Your Copilot uploads and generated images are being moved into OneDrive, where they eat into the same allowance as your documents and photos. Deep Research has gone for consumers unless you […]
Letter or A4 in Word: Two Ways to Switch Without Wrecking Your Layout
Get a document formatted for the wrong paper size and Word gives you two very different ways out. One rescales the printout and leaves your document untouched. The other changes the document itself and can shift your margins, headers and images without warning. Which one you pick matters, so here is when to use each, […]
Microsoft 365 Insiders: The Risks Microsoft Does Not Mention
Microsoft keeps nudging you to become a Microsoft 365 Insider, with little prompts inside Word, Excel and Outlook offering early access to new features. Before you click yes, understand what you are agreeing to: unfinished software, more data sent to Microsoft, add-ins and macros that may stop working, and no real support if something breaks. […]
August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Office Bugs That Fire From the Preview Pane
Ten Critical bugs fixed in Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday can be triggered just by previewing a file. No opening it, no macro warning, no “Enable Content” click. Selecting a message in Outlook’s Reading Pane or clicking a file once in File Explorer is enough to run an attacker’s code on an unpatched machine. That […]
How to Install Only Publisher and Skip the Rest of Microsoft Office
Publisher 365 stops working on 13 October 2026. If you are moving to an older Microsoft Office to keep Publisher alive, you do not have to install the whole suite. Here is how to install only Publisher from Office 2019 or Office 2021, leaving Word, Excel, Outlook and the rest off your computer. It takes […]
Microsoft Publisher Ends October 2026: How to Keep It Working
Microsoft Publisher is ending in October 2026, and what happens to you depends entirely on how you bought it. If you use Publisher 365 from a Microsoft 365 plan, the app will simply stop opening. That is a kill switch, not a polite end of support notice. If you have Publisher 2019 or Publisher 2021 […]
Microsoft ends SMS and Voice Authentication: Passkeys Become Mandatory
If your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID, the days of logging in with a text message code or an automated phone call are numbered. Microsoft has set February 1, 2027 as the shutdown date for its free SMS and voice login service, and passkeys become the default in its place. Here is exactly what changes, […]
This 1990 Version of Word Now Runs Natively on Windows 11
A developer has recompiled the original 1990 version of Word for Windows, 1.1a, so it runs natively as a 64 bit program on Windows 11, no DOSBox, virtual machine, or emulator required. Before you get excited about a free, lightweight alternative to modern Word, here’s the reality check: there is no ready to run download. […]
AI Can Turn Your Angry Email Into One That Actually Gets Results
If you have ever typed an angry email and hesitated before hitting send, AI can help. Paste your unfiltered draft into Copilot, ChatGPT, or any AI tool and ask for a polite but firm rewrite. You still get to vent everything you are feeling, but the version you actually send is calmer, clearer, and far […]
Don’t be a Fauci – how to keep a private diary, private
If you keep a digital diary or any kind of personal notes, recent headlines are a reminder that where you save it, and whether it is password protected, really matters. An unprotected diary saved in the wrong place can be read, copied, or leaked without your knowledge. Here is how to keep your private notes […]
Publisher 365 Kill Switch: What Microsoft’s New Email Gets Wrong
Microsoft just emailed Microsoft 365 subscribers with a warning that badly undersells the Publisher 365 problem. The real deadline is 1 October 2026, less than two months away, not “next year” as the email claims. After that date, Publisher 365 stops opening or editing your files completely, not just “no longer supported.” Here is what […]
Office 2016 Still Gets Security Updates: Check If Yours Qualifies
Microsoft declared Office 2016 dead on 14 October 2025, then quietly released 36 security patches for it anyway. The catch is that those fixes only reach MSI installations of Office 2016, not the Click-to-Run version most home and small business customers have. Microsoft declared Office 2016 dead on 14 October 2025, on the same day […]
Highlight the Selected Row and Column in Excel and Stop Data Errors
Large Excel worksheets punish you for a moment of inattention. Your eye drifts one row, you type a score or a price into the wrong cell, and nobody notices for weeks. Excel can fix that by highlighting the row and column of whatever cell you click on, so the right cell is always obvious. It […]
Microsoft 365 Subscribers 2026: 95 Million and Rising Bills
Microsoft will not tell you how many people pay for Microsoft 365 anymore. The last official figure was 89 million consumer subscribers in July 2025, and the estimate for mid 2026 is about 95 million. What Microsoft did report on July 29, 2026 is the part that reaches your wallet: Microsoft 365 consumer cloud revenue […]
Office 2019 Is Still Getting Security Updates, But Only for Some
Microsoft said Office 2019 support ended on October 14, 2025. That is not what happened. Volume license customers have quietly received ten security updates since that date, the most recent on 14 July 2026. Retail buyers of Home & Student, Home & Business and Professional have received nothing at all. Here is how to tell […]
Keep Publisher Working: Which Microsoft Office Version to Buy in 2026
Microsoft Publisher reaches end of life on 13 October 2026. After that date there are no security fixes for any version, and Publisher in Microsoft 365 stops working altogether. If you want a copy of Publisher that keeps running, you need a one time purchase Office bundle that includes it, and the version you pick […]
