Warning! Older Outlook soon stop links to Microsoft mailboxes
Soon older versions of Outlook won’t be able to connect to Microsoft hosted mailboxes, even though both the software and service come from the same company. Here’s what’s happening, why, who is affected and what to do. Microsoft is finally ending older, insecure, ‘Basic’ authentication connections to their Microsoft 365 mailboxes including Outlook.com. The change […]
Get Microsoft 365 free in 4.5 different ways
If you’re not willing or able to spend the money, there are several ways you can access Microsoft Office for free. These tips are just good for saving money. Some are useful standby’s to keep in mind if you can’t use the full Microsoft 365 desktop programs. Maybe your computer is playing up or you’re […]
Make Outlook’s spam filter allow Office Watch newsletters
How to stop your Office Watch newsletters going to the Junk E-mail folder. To make sure your Office Watch newsletters don’t end up in your Junk Email folder you need to set us up as a ‘Safe Sender’. Here’s how to do that in Outlook. Keep in mind that Outlook software is NOT the primary […]
New Outlook and Microsoft 365 Widgets in Windows 11
The new Widgets pane in Windows 11 has three widgets for Outlook and Microsoft 365 users. Calendar, To Do and one only for Enterprise users. Widgets are a pop-up window of configurable small panes. The selection of widgets is quite limited, at least for now; Weather, Traffic, Stocks, Sports, Entertainment etc. A web search option, […]
Office apps for Chromebook to be stopped
The Office for Android apps won’t be supported on Chromebook devices from mid-September. That admission was finally dragged out of a reluctant Microsoft. That leaves Chromebook users with Office on the web and Outlook.com in the Chrome browser. See Two ways to use Microsoft Office on a Chromebook Microsoft reluctantly admitted their plans after these […]
Fixes for Outlook downloading way too much data
Sometimes Outlook for Windows can download a lot of data that it doesn’t mean to. When we say ‘a lot’ we mean many gigabytes, sometimes far more than the size of the mailbox, which makes no sense at all. Here’s some options for fixing the problem with tips for using Outlook more efficiently. Is Outlook […]
Look inside a real Microsoft 365 phishing attack
A detailed look at a common email phishing attack, what to look for and how to avoid it. The most common form of phishing (password stealing) attack fakes a Microsoft account login. Most people have a Microsoft account for their work, home or both so it’s a large slow-moving target for criminals. Here’s an email […]
Typing Tau Lower Case τ Symbol In Word And Office
Type the Tau – lower case τ letter into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Tau (lowercase τ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. The lowercase letter is used in Biology, Mathematics and Physics, such as proper time in relativity. In ancient times it was also used as a symbol to represent life […]
Zeta lower case ζ symbol in Word, PowerPoint and Office
Type Zeta – lower case ζ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Zeta – lower case ζ symbol is the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet. It is used for various mathematically and scientific reasons, such as representing the Riemann zeta function, the heat flux through a plane or relative vorticity in […]
How to Make Gamma upper case Γ, or Gamma lower case γ symbols in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Type Gamma upper case Γ and Gamma lower case γ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Gamma (uppercase Γ / lowercase γ) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. It represents the “g” sound in Modern and Ancient Greek. Gamma uppercase γ symbol is […]
Do you know all five types of email addresses? part 1
If you thought that all email addresses are the same, think again. There are five main types of email address and if you want to organize your email sensibly you should know the difference. All email addresses are formatted the same way @ but what isn’t obvious are the different ways that email sent to […]
More about the five types of email addresses
There are five main types of email address and if you want to organize your email sensibly you should know the difference. In this article we’ll talk about the Catch-All, Black Hole and Auto-Responders. Continuing our series on the different types of email addresses. We’ve already talked about mailboxes and aliases – the most important […]
An easy way to get an anonymous face, cat, horse or artwork
Here’s a way to get a face or other image for a PowerPoint slide or Word document but not intrude on anyone’s privacy. Check out ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com The website employs artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to produce photos of people who do not exist. An astonishingly realistic, but entirely fake image […]
Sampi Ϡ symbol in Word and Office
Type the Sampi Ϡ letter into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Sampi Ϡ symbol is occasionally used in Greek today. Its modern form, which resembles a slanting right cross-stroke with a longish curve, evolved during its use as a numeric symbol in Byzantine minuscule handwriting. Informally, its often replaced by lowercase or uppercase π. How Sampi Ϡ looks in different […]
Type Theta Upper Case Θ Small Upper Case θ or Lower Case ϑ Symbols
Theta upper case Θ, Theta small upper case θ and Theta lower case ϑ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Theta (uppercase Θ or θ / lowercase ϑ) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet. The lowercase symbol represents many things, such as an unknown variable in trigonometry, or a plane angle in geometry. […]
Voice commands are now available for Outlook emails
Outlook 365 desktop (Windows/Mac) is getting more Dictation controls for email creation and sending. It’s already possible to dictate (speech to text) an email, after all, the Outlook email editor is Word in disguise and Word 365 has dictation features. Now Outlook Dictation can add receivers (TO, CC or BCC), include @mentions, change the subject […]
