Two ways to stop Office automatic updates
Here are two options to stop Microsoft Office for Windows from automatically updating itself and why you might want to do that. Office for Windows All versions of Office that have current support (currently Office 2010 and later) get: updates to fix bugs in the software patches to stop security bugs that might allow access […]
Microsoft Office non-security updates for January 2020
Here’s the bug fixes and changes in Office 2016 just released by Microsoft with a summary of what caught our eye. Outlook 2016 – secure email changes KB 4484212 The default hash algorithm for S/MIME changes. The default is SHA1 except when a new registry key is present. Details in the KB. Bug fix: “When […]
Festive malware arrives via Word documents
Criminals don’t even respect Santa and the festive season with malware infested emails pretending to be holiday schedules or the Christmas party. Is nothing sacred? Cofense Labs report that Emotet botnet is being spread via Word documents with timely emails for the end of the year. All these dangerous emails include a .doc Word file […]
Share Outlook drafts folder on iPhone, iPad and Android
It would be great to share draft emails between Outlook on different devices including iPhone, iPad and Android. You can start a message or reply on a smartphone and finish it later on a computer. Sharing drafts between Outlook for Windows or Mac has been possible for many years, only a change from a default […]
Pantone 2020 color of the year in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Pantone has announced its Color of the Year for 2020 here’s how to get it in Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc. The color of 2020 is … Classic Blue Source: Pantone As usual what’s more amazing than the color is the description from the ‘Pantone Institute’. Classic Blue is: reassuring thought-provoking dependable […]
Advanced group email settings come to Outlook
Outlook’s Groups support is improving with ways to filter Group emails and let you control which emails appear in the Inbox. Admins can manage the names given to new groups, enforcing prefix/suffix and stop specific words from appearing in Group names. This is new in Outlook 365 for Windows v1912 build 12325.20012. ‘Insiders’ first and […]
New look Outlook for Mac
Now rolling out to Insiders is a preview of a new look in Outlook for Mac. Here’s what’s on offer and how to get it. Limitation There’s an important limitation on the new interface that’s not given enough warning by Microsoft. It’s only available if one of the email accounts is Office 365, Outlook.com or […]
New Excel and Outlook for Android features
The Office apps for Android are getting some interesting new features. Excel for Android has better sort and filtering. Galaxy Watch can now link to the Outlook app. At first for preview ‘Insiders’ and later to the publicly available Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook apps. Here’s Microsoft announcement of the new features with their images: […]
What is Application Guard and what it means for Office 365
Microsoft is touting Application Guard as a defence against Office 365 macro viruses. What is it and will it truly prevent viruses in Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents? Application Guard is already in the Edge browser and Microsoft has announced that it will be extended into Office 365 sometime in early 2020. They’ve not said […]
Outlook for Mac Profiles, finding and using them
Outlook for Mac also has Profiles to manage multiple setups on the one machine. Though they are managed very differently to Outlook for Windows, the basics are the same on both. To add a bit of confusion, profiles where called ‘identities’ up to Outlook 2011. Outlook 2016 and later for Mac use the ‘Profile’ name. […]
Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard – with Office and Emoji keys
The Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard is one of two new models with dedicated Office key and Emoji key. What’s this new keyboard like … aside from those innovations? We bought a Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard with our own money and gave it a long hard look. Source: Microsoft Note: this is the Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard released in […]
All about Microsoft’s new Emoji Key
Two new Microsoft keyboards have an Emoji key. Office-Watch.com has now tried one of these keyboards to see how the new key really works and hardware details. There are various layouts available including US layout. We bought a UK layout keyboard with the Alt Gr key. Firstly, it’s not an ‘Emoji key’. Everyone has been […]
Office Key, all about Microsoft’s new keys
Two new Microsoft keyboards have a dedicated Office key. Office-Watch.com has tested one of these keyboards to see how the new Office key really works. We have a full list of Office key shortcuts plus how it works inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint and geeky hardware info. Hard information about the new key has been […]
New Search bar in Outlook
Outlook for Windows is getting a new Search bar which combines many existing search and other options right on top of the title bar. It’s now available to Office 365 Insiders and will gradually roll out to other Office 365 . Outlook Search is hard to miss, it’s right on top of the title bar, […]
Surface Buds work with Microsoft Office
Microsoft’s new Surface Buds are earbuds with links to Microsoft Office for voice control and transcription. The new product is a rival to the Apple Airpods and many other similar cordless earphones. What’s different is the touch surface with allow more integration with Windows and especially Office. Source: Microsoft It’s unclear what, if anything, is […]
Outlook fixes and updates in Windows 10 patch
A new Windows 10 bug patch has some fixes for Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft’s documentation is typically brief, so we’ll fill in some details. The time zone changes are too late to help some customers … why? KB4520062 has many Windows 10 fixes but a few affect some Outlook users and anyone using the new Windows […]
