Using oAuth, or not, in Outlook programs or apps
Over time there’s been a change in the way email programs login to your mail host. It’s mostly hidden from us mere humans but important to understand. Here’s how to use oAuth and how to bypass it, if your email program doesn’t support it. Older versions of Outlook don’t know about Open Authentication but there’s […]
Special Office and Emoji keys coming to a keyboard near you
Microsoft is releasing two new keyboards with new keys; an Office key and a dedicated Emoji key. Back in June we talked about the plans for an Office key to go alongside the existing Windows key. Here it is … Source: Microsoft The Office and Emoji keys are on the right of the spacebar. Source: […]
The price trap for Office users in the new iPad
The new iPad has a great price tag and good features but a hidden price trap for Microsoft Office users. It has a 10.2” screen with support for important accessories like an external keyboard and Apple Pencil. Source: Apple. The trap is in the screen size, at 10.2” it’s 0.1 inches more than Microsoft allows […]
Email Attachments blocked by Microsoft Outlook – the new and complete list
Here’s a complete, searchable and sortable list of all the email attachments that are or soon will be blocked by various types of Microsoft Outlook. There’s confusion and inconsistencies in the Microsoft documentation and application of these new blocks. They have a list of blocked attachments for Outlook in “Office 365,, Outlook 2019 Outlook 2016, […]
How the US government accesses your OneDrive and Outlook info with NSL
A recent forced disclosure by the US government demonstrates the use of NSL’s which access your personal data from Microsoft OneDrive and Outlook without a warrant or regular oversight, let alone notice to you. Microsoft, Google, Facebook and many other tech companies (including gaming services) have received National Security Letters which demand information about a […]
Outlook Signatures to be synced – at last!
In long overdue news, Microsoft has finally agreed to synchronize email signatures between Outlook on different platforms. The news came in the form of a post on the Uservoice site: “We’re happy to report that we’re working on sync’ing signatures across devices. More details to come as we have them.” It’s not much. No timeline, […]
September bug fixes to Office 2016 and Office 2013
Here’s this months non-security bug fix updates.for Office 2016 and Office 2013. They are only for .msi installs, not ‘Click to Run’ modern installations. For most systems, they’ll be applied automatically. This is the full list with extra notes on a few fixes which caught our eye. Office 2016 updates Excel 2016 KB4011629 “PowerPivot formulas […]
Ursnif is back in Word documents to steal your identity
The long-standing Ursnif trojan is back in a new form to infect computers and steal personal information, all via a Microsoft Word document. To begin, we’ll repeat a warning we’ve been making for years … No .doc files DO NOT open .doc files from any source (not .xls or .ppt either). Most infected and dangerous […]
Search for Microsoft Office Icons
The desperately needed feature is coming to Microsoft Office … the ability to search for Icons. Microsoft added Icons to Office 365 and even more a few months ago … 300 more icons in Office, but which ones and where? The problem has always been finding the right icons from the long list. There are […]
Sensitivity settings add security for Office documents
Office now has sensitivity options to label Word, Excel, PowerPoint docs plus emails. Not ‘touch-feely’ sensitivity like ‘loving’ or ‘compassionate’ but instead corporate, privacy labels. It’s a new feature for Office 365 corporate hosted E3 or E5 accounts and the admins have enabled Sensitivity options. Sensitivity appears on the Home tab in Word, Excel, PowerPoint […]
Fast adding an appointment to Outlook and getting it right
Despite all the possibilities for importing or sharing appointments, most of the time we have to manually type in new appointments or events. Here’s some tips to do it faster and get it right. We’ve all been there, a web page or email (below right) with details that need copying into a blank Outlook appointment […]
EmailMerge.cc Add on for MS Outlook
Office-Watch.com reader Jeffrey J. offers this look at Emailmerge.cc an add-on that fixes some limitations in the Word/Excel/Outlook mail merge system. “ Outlook email merge function does not allow multiple To line addressees, nor allows creating any cc or bcc addressees. And you cannot customize the Subject line. Manually adding/modifying each required email is labor […]
Office 365 hack copies your emails without you realizing
Hackers continue to trick people into giving away their Office 365 login details with a little help from Microsoft. The criminals are getting cleverer by not only stealing passwords but checking immediately and hiding the theft while they copy your mailbox. Avanan has the details on this latest type of Office 365 phishing. It starts […]
New Window 10 update fixes Office 2010 bug
A new Windows 10 (October 2018) patch fixes a bug with Office 2010 and updates Brazil time zone data used by Outlook. The patch KB4505658 fixes a long list of Windows 10 v1809 bug fixes. Sorry, they aren’t bug fixes, the euphemism is ‘quality improvements’. Two changes stuck out for us. Save and Save As […]
What’s the earliest date possible in Outlook and workaround.
Our articles about saving past events with anniversary reminders begs the question; How far back can Outlook save an event. The answer in Outlook for Windows, Mac and online is 1 April 1601. Trying to enter a date before 1st April 1601 brings up an error: “You must specify a valid date and/or time”. That […]
Apollo 11 events to download and add to a calendar
Here’s a practical example of how to share an appointment or event with reminders using the iCalendar .ics standard. Some Apollo 11 events ready to download and add to your calendar (in Outlook or other software). Outlook supports .ics files and so does most other calendar programs. They are small text files which have all […]
