Office 2021 is the personal and small business ‘perpetual licence’, non-subscription version of Microsoft Office. For Windows and Mac.
Office LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel) is the volume licence ‘perpetual licence’, non-subscription version of Microsoft Office for organizations, companies and governments. Also for Windows and Mac.
The features in Office 2021 and Office LTSC are very similar, if not the same.
Massive Data Leakage from PowerApps, Microsoft blames customers
A security company has revealed a dangerous setting in Microsoft PowerApps. Microsoft has fallen back on one of their oldest tricks, blaming the customer. There’s a similar ‘way too open’ option in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Power Apps provide ways for organization to make simple apps to access online data without needing complex programming. This […]
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 […]
Scientists still don’t know how to use Excel
Importing genetic codes into Excel is still a problem despite widespread reports of the problem. And still Microsoft is blamed, despite the real solution is with the lazy scientists who need to learn how to use Excel. A new report in the journal Nature shows that Autocorrect errors in Excel still creating genomics headache with […]
The danger still lurking in Excel and how to stop it
Modern Excel has a danger zone that hackers increasingly use to get into your computer. It’s been there for well over twenty years but is being abused a lot more in 2021. Here’s how to disable it. The problem is in a very old method of Excel automation called Excel 4.0 or XLM macros. They’ve […]
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 […]
OneNote for Windows changes now clarified, sort of
Microsoft has announced more changes to OneNote for Windows. Despite what you might have heard, it’s really a clarification of past promises rather than anything new. OneNote for Windows has been messed about for years with two separate programs operating side-by-side and Microsoft unable to decide which one to prefer. Customers are left confused by […]
The hidden reason why Internet Explorer is still necessary
Microsoft is pushing the Internet Explorer browser over a cliff but there’s a good but hidden reason why IE is worth keeping or get Edge’s IE Mode working. Both Edge and Google Chrome have an annoying feature that adds HTML formatting to the web page downloaded. That’s a problem if you’re copying a web page […]
How to type Koppa upper case Ϟ, or lower case ϟ symbols in Word or Office
Type the Koppa upper case Ϟ and Koppa lower case ϟ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Koppa (uppercase Ϟ / lowercase ϟ) is a letter used in the earlier forms of the Greek alphabet, it was originally used to denote the ‘k’ sound but […]
How to type the Alt Key ⎇ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook
How to insert the Alt key ⎇ symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Alt key ⎇ symbol is a modifier key, used in a similar fashion to the Shift key. On a Mac, the same key is called Option. Most keyboards will have one […]
