The current Home Use Program with Office 2019 sold for a mere $15 is about to end. If you want the perpetual licence Office 2019 for Windows or Mac, you’d better hurry. The full impact of the changed Office Home Use Program (HUP) is becoming clear. We’ve already noted that
Even by Microsoft’s standards, The Office Twins Challenge is a self-serving and annoying crock which treats customers like fools. Office 2019 ad to discourage buying it It’s not often (ever?) that a company doesn’t want to sell a product, but that’s what Microsoft is doing with their latest Microsoft Office
The Microsoft Office Home Use Program (HUP) has officially been extended to include Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal annual plans. Naturally there’s a catch, the rules have changed but the Microsoft department isn’t ready yet! UPDATES: Home Use Program details are dribbling out. You’d better hurry if you
The latest Microsoft Office promotion is a rare example of an ad which shows how a product was deliberately crippled with less features. The ‘Twins Challenge’ is a series of very selective videos that are supposed to highlight differences between Office 2019 (single purchase, less profitable for Microsoft) and Office
Microsoft Office is showing an ‘Updates Available’ below the ribbon ‘message bar’. What to do? especially if you don’t want to update right away. “UPDATES AVAILABLE Updates for Office are ready to be installed, but first we need to close some apps. Update now ” It looks like you have
Many new emoji are now in the official Unicode list but we’ll have to wait for them to appear in Word or Outlook emails. After the Unicode Consortium ratifies additions to the vast character list, it takes some time for Microsoft, Apple and others to add the emoji to their
Here’s the list of the February 2019 bug fixes or ‘non-security’ updates for Office 2016, Office 2013 and Office 2010. They don’t apply to Office 365 or Office 2019 which use the ‘Click to Run’ install and update service. Many of the updates are preparing for the upcoming Japanese Era
Office 365 is getting yet another way to save a document and it’s not as bad as the advance publicity suggested. We’ve now had a chance to use the new Save dialog ourselves and it’s not another attempt to force customers to OneDrive. The change is now available for Office
Here’s a quick and easy way to totally erase file, folders or free disk space so there’s no trace of the original data. Also erasing an entire drive before handing over or selling. As you may know, deleting a file doesn’t really remove it from your computer. Even after deleting
It’s the Chinese Year of the Pig and there are some symbols in Word, Excel and PowerPoint to mark the occasion in Office for Windows or Mac. The Unicode standard has three Pig related emoji, Pig, Pig Face and Pig Nose. Once you know the names or hex value, they
Web based email is very common these days but it’s not the best way to handle your email. At worse, webmail can leave you stranded and out-of-touch. A lot of people now use webmail as the only way to access email on their computer, not realising, until it’s too late,
How can you tell if you’re reading email in a web browser or using email software like Outlook for Windows or Mac? This might seem obvious to some but many people use ’email’ without understanding the important difference between webmail and email programs. There are two ways to read and
If the Translation options in Microsoft Office don’t do it for you, try the Google Translate full document translation option instead. For a long time, Google has a word and text translation between languages. The app is a godsend to travelers around the world, and the locals dealing with them!
Bitlocker is an important part of Microsoft Windows so why isn’t it in the Microsoft Word dictionary? Bitlocker is the drive encryption feature in modern Windows. It secures your drive if stolen or lost because the entire drive is unreadable without the password. Our books for Windows 10 and Windows
The Facetime security bug is embarrassing for Apple but compared to other tech companies they acted decently and quickly. Here’s how to protect yourself. The Facetime bug allowed someone to eavesdrop on you without you knowing it. It activated the Apple device microphone even though the receiver had not answered
Office 365 hosted customers in Europe are recovering from an outage of about two days. Affected customers should make sure Microsoft gives them the downtime discount they’re entitled to. The outage affected Office 365 email and other hosting in the UK and parts of Europe, like The Netherlands and Belgium
What can you do when two Windows computers can’t ‘see’ each other for file sharing on a local network? It’s an old, old Windows problem with too many possible faults, but a smart Office Watch reader found one possible fix. File sharing is necessary to let you share documents and
Apple and Microsoft have come to terms and now you can buy an Office 365 ‘subscription’ plan from the Apple App Store. Why do such a silly thing? We’ve seen a lot of hype about Office 365’s arrival in the App Store. Commentators almost hyperventilating with excitement including the phrase
Finding the right stock or index among the tens of thousands available in Excel’s Stock data type isn’t always easy. Here’s some stock search tips that might help with some advice about a changing situation. Stock data type is available in Excel 365 for Windows and coming to Excel 365
Outlook’s Clutter feature is going away in favor of the Focused Inbox. Both have the same limitation that Microsoft doesn’t talk about much. Clutter was a hyped Outlook/Exchange feature which shunted lower priority messages to a separate folder. Marketing emails, group messages etc could go to Clutter leaving, in theory,
Windows 10 Mobile will end support in December 2019, the latest in a long line of failed attempts by Microsoft to produce a smartphone version of Windows. Smartphones with Windows 10 will continue to work, of course. So will the Office apps for Win 10 Mobile. But there’ll be no
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2019 – “PublishDrive is thrilled to announce the launch of their free ebook conversion tool that is available to the public for commercial use. With PublishDrive’s new conversion tool, users can instantly convert their manuscript into a ready-to-publish ebook. To use the conversion tool, users simply upload a Microsoft Word
Now that Microsoft is changing the default Office 365 and Office 2019 install to 64-bit software from 32-bit software – which one do you choose and does it matter? Most people will not notice the difference between 32-bit Office and the 64-bit version. The latter is faster but not so
A Canadian man has been caught trying to hide assets from bankruptcy because the wrong fonts were used in documents. Gerald McGoey, the former CEO of Look Communications filed for bankruptcy over a year ago. He presented trust documents that appeared to shield two properties from his creditors. But there
