The long-standing viewer software for Word, Excel or PowerPoint are going to that Bit Black Hole to which all software must eventually go. The Word Viewer, Excel Viewer and PowerPoint Viewer are being ‘retired’ in Microsoft parlance. That only means they won’t be available for download from Microsoft. Nor will
Rarely do you choose a single Slicer button. More likely you’ll want to select multiple filters or buttons, here’s the various ways to do that. You can press the filter icon next to Beverages and then select multiple items if you want to see both. Just like other parts of
From Excel 2010, Microsoft added Slicers to Excel’s PivotTables. From the hype, Slicers sound like some complex Excel feature but they’re really a more useable, friendly and showy way to do something already in Excel – Filtering. For me it’s more of a visual filter and a collaborative tool that
Simple PivotTable filters let you limit the table display to a part of the available data. They have a place in PivotTables, especially for semi-permanent filters that you want to apply broadly. Instead of filtering the original data feed or list, the PivotTable can use a large list which is
There’s been a whopping big security hole in Microsoft Office for the last 17 years, via the old Equation Editor and a less than vigilant Microsoft. We have details of the problem, how to fix it and why there’s more to come …. In the November 2017 patches there are
Microsoft’s investment in LinkedIn now has a result for Office users with the release of a Resume Assistant for Word 2016. Before we go into details, keep in mind that Resume Assistant is only available for a few Office users at the moment. Not even all Office 2016 Fast Insiders
You’re not locked into the PivotTable sorting options provided by Microsoft. Excel lets you arrange a PivotTable into any order you like. Right-click on a PivotTable column and choose Sort | More Sort Options | Manual. How to Drag and Sort It’s not obvious how to select an item (row
Sometimes you want to sort a list or PivotTable in a special way that doesn’t fit the usual ‘A to Z’ or number order. The most common need for this are days of the week or months in a year. Neither of those orders make sense to a literal computer.
You still want to explore more Excel PivotTable sorting, there are some additional options like Click More options button on the Sort dialog box. The More Sort Options dialog box appears for your Sorting list of the Pivot Table. Let’s see what these additional features can do for you: As
Excel allows you to sort a PivotTable in alphabetical order or from largest to smallest values. They are similar to the standard Excel sorting options but worth looking at separately because there are automatic sorts, custom sortings and a manual sorting option. Quick PivotTable Sort Sort the PivotTable by right-click
Next Wednesday, Australia gets the results of their Same Sex Marriage survey with the details available to everyone with Excel. Here’s how to get the survey results, prepare for the announcement and when it’ll happen. We know most people won’t be interested in this singular Aussie exercise in democracy (don’t
Microsoft’s mail hosting Outlook.com now comes with extras for Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers, as we foretold a while ago. In short, the ‘Premium’ $50/$20 a year Outlook.com is dead. The Premium benefits are now available to all Office 365 Home and Personal users. If you’re one of the
There are interface changes coming to Outlook for Windows and Mac which Microsoft quietly previewed recently. As usual, interface changes are accompanied by the same vague promises and jargon. Long standing Office users will find a lot of what follows to be tiresomely familiar. We’re told this change will ‘increase
By default, PivotTable provides custom name such as “Sum of Amounts” or Count of Numbers” etc when you add a field to the table. You may not be always happy to use these default custom names for your PivotTable, so feel free to modify the headings to something you like.
Moving or swapping fields around in a PivotTable is both amusing and addictive at the same time. You cannot stop yourself from rearranging your data in different ways. Each time you move a field, the Pivot Table will restructure to the new field configuration and you see the same data
You will always find Excel either summarizing your data by adding the values together (SUM) or Counting the number of items. Nobody is stopping you from changing the type of calculation that your work demands to include averages, maximum, minimum, standard deviation and others. Change the calculation from the Value
Apple has introduced a new image and video format for iPhone and iPad, here’s how to handle it in Microsoft Office documents. .HEIC image files are made by default in some Apple devices with iOS 11. Microsoft Office and Windows don’t support the new format yet but there’s workarounds available
OneDrive will automatically save past versions of an Office document, here how to access those revisions quickly. The advertised way to view a document history is through the Activity button, next to Share on the top right. In Office 2016 for Windows, Office 365. The Activity pane shows a list
A recent Office addition is ‘Shared with Me’, a list of the documents you’ve been invited to collaborate on with others. It’s available in Office 2016 Windows/Mac and the iPad, iPhone and Android Mobile apps. According to Microsoft ‘Shared with Me’ ” lets you see the files others have shared
Office 2016 for Mac (Office 365) has the same document sharing options as Office for Windows but they look a little different. In fact, Office for Mac has an additional sharing option not available in Windows. Just like Office 2016 for Windows, Office 2016 for Mac has a Share button
It’s always been possible to email a document for reviewing or editing. Modern versions of Office make that easier by letting you email from the document directly, instead of an email program like Outlook. Instead of opening your email to send an attachment, click on Send as an attachment from
The Share pane in modern Office is fine within an organization or with people who are familiar with document collaboration. But what if you want to share a document link with more detail in the email or using a non-email method like Instant Messaging? Well, you want to get just
Kaspersky has blamed a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor using pirated Office software for the leak of classified documents to their Moscow servers. The US government had banned Kaspersky security software after classified files were uploaded to the Russian company. It’s alleged those documents where passed to the Kremlin. Kaspersky’s
The US Justice Department (DoJ) has stepped back a little in their legal battle with Microsoft over government access to cloud data, including email. Microsoft had sued the US government over orders which compelled the company to hand over customers cloud stored files and emails. This could be done without
