We’ve added more to Real Time Excel, our comprehensive guide to adding the latest information into Excel easily and automatically. Real Time Excel already has in-depth coverage of Linked Data Types, a new and truly interesting addition to Excel for Windows. On 15 October 2018 we added a bit more
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
The people who brought us Wunderlist have now turned their sights on PowerPoint and hope to disrupt how we think of presentation software with Pitch. They’ve already identified two important failings in PowerPoint. You’d think that between PowerPoint, Keynote (Apple) and Slides (Google) would have the whole presentation software market
Microsoft has re-released the October 2018 update to Windows 10 after (hopefully) fixing the bug which deleted some customers vital files. The October 2018 update problem was caused by changes to Known Folder Redirection or KFR which we’ll explain below. Windows 10 October 2018 update – take two The Windows
Microsoft includes a OneNote logo in a lot of Office 2019 promotion but that’s a stretch because there’s no ‘OneNote 2019’ included. Down in the fine print: “OneNote for Windows 10”. That’s the OneNote app which is available to all. OneNote desktop has already been dropped from the Office lineup.
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
Adding email, calendar and contacts Live Tiles to the Windows Start Menu would seem like an obvious thing to do. Here’s how you can workaround to do it. On the Windows 8 and 10 large Start Menu are ‘Live Tiles’ which are updated to show the latest information. Some of
As Douglas Adams said, Don’t Panic. There are problems with the Windows 10 October 2018 major update but they won’t strike you if you’re careful. The October 2018 update has been suspended by Microsoft after reports that documents/files were being deleted during the update process. Not good at all. The
Microsoft has announced their own virtual machine version of Windows and Office desktop that you can run from anywhere called Windows Virtual Desktop. WVD is a virtual Windows machine which runs on Microsoft’s Azure cloud servers. Users access that machine from their own computer using Remote Desktop software. Many organizations
New Zealand is getting some unfair bad publicity after a change in their laws which allows Customs officials to ask for the passwords to access computers or devices brought into the country. Customs officials all over the world can usually search anything you bring in and that includes password protected
Press Release: ORLANDO, FLA. (PRWEB) OCTOBER 01, 2018 LawToolBox, a market leader in delivering modern solutions for legal professionals in Microsoft Office 365, announces that at the Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference it has won the award for second place in the Best Office Integration category for its Deadline App for Microsoft Teams. This
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
From today, 1 October 2018, Office 365 licencing rules change in a way Microsoft has never done before. Redmond announced the change a few weeks ago but now we can see the new Office 365 licence rules working, with a few unanswered questions. The change won’t affect your current Office
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
Officially, Office 2019 will be sold to consumers ‘in a few weeks’ but a leak gives us the probable release date, bundles and prices. Two Office 2019 Bundles Office 2019 will be sold to consumers in two packages: Home and Student or Home and Business. That’s much the same as
Insiders (Fast or Slow) will start seeing a major change to the date information they get from the Excel Stock Data type. All Excel for Windows ‘Insiders’ can try out the Stock and Geo data types. They are a new way to get external information into Excel without the hassle
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
Ever wanted to stretch out your essay or report so it fit on more pages? Times Newer Roman is a font that will help you do just that. Any student knows the standard tricks for making an essay seem longer. Adjust the margins, stretch the Font | Advanced | Spacing,
Microsoft has finally added their Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) into the Office 365 programs, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This technology is designed to check VBA and other programming code when it’s opened and before running. It’s a runtime check separate from any document scanning done by Windows Defender. Source:
Office 365 ProPlus customers can keep running older versions of Windows longer after a change of heart by Microsoft. Windows 8.1 will be supported for Office 365 ProPlus through January 2023. That means both Windows 8.1 and Office 365 ProPlus now have the same end of support date for Windows
Microsoft is extending availability of cloud services like OneDrive, Skype for Business and MS hosted Exchange for Office 2016 perpetual licence customers including Office 365 ProPlus At the moment, Office 2016 single-payment and Office 365 ProPlus would be blocked from OneDrive, Skype for Business and Microsoft supplied Exchange Server after
The Windows clipboard is quite limited but there’s a better one hiding inside Microsoft Office for Windows. It can collect more items, paste in any order and be cleared when you like. We’ll also show how to keep the sometimes annoying pane out of the way. You’re about to hear
A new report from Sophos shows how hacking via Office documents has changed of lot in 2018 with new attacks coming much faster than in the past. Microsoft’s assurances that a security bug (sorry ‘exploit’) hasn’t been used ‘in the wild’ doesn’t mean a lot. Office document hacks made in
After a lot of talk and promises, Office Insiders are getting a look at the proposed Outlook for Windows single-line or Simplified Ribbon for Office 365 customers. As usual, there’s good news and bad news in the interface change. Though it’s early days and there’s still time for changes. Don’t
