Pantone Color of 2019 – available now in Microsoft Office
Pantone has announced its Color of the Year for 2019 but before you run off to grab color swatches, here’s how to get it in Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. The color of 2019 is <drum roll> ….. Living Coral … As usual what’s more amazing than the color is the description from […]
Why can’t you buy individual Office programs?
Office Watch reader, Meredith M. asks a question we’ve heard many times before. Why can’t you buy individual Office programs instead of paying for an Office bundle with programs you don’t need? “My issue: I need ONLY Word, Excel and Access–but I NEED them. I know that I cannot buy them separately but does anyone […]
New Icons for Microsoft Office 365
It’s been five years since the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Office icons were given a new look. Now they’ve been announced and, frankly, we could not care less. New look icons don’t make any difference to anyone’s daily use of Office. It’s like supermarket groceries that boast ‘New Packaging’ as if any customers care? […]
Online Video hack now ‘in the wild’ and Microsoft won’t do anything
A previously theoretical way to misuse Office documents to infect your computer is now ‘in the wild’ and Microsoft isn’t interested in stopping it. Last week we told you about a new way for Office documents to get malware onto your computer. Cymulate discovered that the Online Video feature could be manipulated to download malware […]
Online Video now a risk for Office users
Cymulate is reporting how embedded video in Word or other Office documents are another way for criminals and hackers to infect your computer. It’s yet another example of how Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents can be used to get malware onto computers to steal data, becomes bots or other nasties. This trick uses the relatively […]
1 to 100 in 6.18 seconds, speed running with Microsoft Word
Speed Running, a gamers pastime has come to Microsoft Word. Finding ways to type the numbers 1 to 100 in the fastest time. If you’re unfamiliar with speed running, as we were, it’s playing and recording a pass through a game aiming to complete as fast as possible. Someone came up with the idea of […]
Microsoft Word vs Scrabble Champions
The 2018 Scrabble World Championship is over. How does the Microsoft Word spell check fare against the Scrabble champs? Microsoft Word has slightly different dictionaries for many English language variations (US, UK, Australian etc). Word’s English dictionaries different from the official Scrabble dictionary. Among the words in the final rounds were: Groutier Zonular Phenolic Maledict […]
Why Microsoft’s Word Count went to court
A judgement from the US Court of Appeals turned on the Word Count feature in Microsoft Word and how it differs from the rules for court submissions. Most courts have rules about the length of submission which, in this case, were accidently exceeded. The plaintiff is representing himself (‘pro se’) so the judge was more […]
Word Online gets Dictation – type with your voice
Microsoft has added the Dictation feature to the browser based versions of Word and OneNote. You can speak and words will appear in Word/OneNote using the cloud ‘speech to text’ feature. Source: Microsoft Dictation is already available in Word 365 for Windows. Office for Mac users have a ‘voice to text’ feature available in the […]
Office for iPhone/iPad gets Icons or SVG graphics
Office for iOS (iPhone / iPad ) is getting the Icons or SVG support already available in Word 365 for Windows. Icons now available to Office iOS Insiders on the Insert tab. There are 500 to choose from … Source: Microsoft Available in the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for Android. Icons are really SVG […]
Word’s Ink Editor gets more gestures
Coming to Word 365 for Windows are more Ink Editor gestures plus a pop-out pane to explain the gestures available. Ink Editor is on the Draw menu. It’s a way to use a digital pen to edit existing text. For example, draw a squiggly line through some words to delete them. It’s a nifty idea […]
How Word can help your college entrance essay
A New York Times article about parents writing their kids college entrance essay reminded us of a forgotten feature in Microsoft Word. A feature of modern ‘helicopter parenting‘ is helping, if not entirely writing, essays for their children. The article How I Know You Wrote Your Kid’s College Essay by JM Farkas, a college essay […]
The Microsoft Office font that helps you remember
An Australian university has developed a font that will help you remember what you read. It sounds like an April Fool’s joke, but the font is real and works in Office for Mac or Windows. Sans Forgetica was made at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Unlike most fonts, Sans Forgetica is designed to be a […]
Office apps for Windows 10 get sidelined
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Office apps for Windows 10 have been sidelined by Microsoft with no new features planned. Bad news for anyone still using a Windows Phone. The Windows 10/Mobile apps will continue to work but no more features are planned. This ‘no more features’ decision appears to apply to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, […]
Office 2019 starts public release
Office 2019, the new non-cloud version of Office for Windows and Mac, is now available to volume licence and commercial customers. This is the ‘cloud free’ or, as Microsoft call it the ‘on-premises’ version of Office desktop. It has no cloud related features and is ‘feature fixed’ with no future enhancements. There’ll be security and […]
Brand logo font with color, at least in theory
A fun new font using famous logos for letters also demonstrates where Windows 10 and Windows 11 color font features become useful with Microsoft Word. Brand New Roman is a fun mashup font made up of famous logos. It looks best in color so it’s handy that Windows 11/10 supports color fonts. Try out Brand […]
