Ransomware hasn’t gone away, it’s just not making headlines. MalwareBytes reports that two more variations of the Locky ransomware have appeared in the last few weeks. Beware DOC and DOCM They spread in ZIP files or the hackers favorite way to infect a computer, Microsoft Office files, most likely Word
It’s back to school time in the USA, rushed parents in stores with long lists of supplies. Here’s some tips for getting Microsoft Office for less. Do you already have Office? Maybe you’ve already got Microsoft Office? Before buying, make sure you’re not already entitled to use Office. Some schools
Visio is adding a really useful tool for web site developers – wireframes. Web wireframes are a way to create a rough draft or mockup of a web page. Each page element can be dropped onto a web page, standard or mobile. Source for all images: Microsoft There are Visio
Office Watch has a presence on Facebook, finally, https://www.facebook.com/OfficeWatch/ Our new Facebook page has the very latest Office related news posted to it as soon as we publish. Go to https://www.facebook.com/OfficeWatch/ and click Follow to see our posts in your timeline. Admittedly, we’ve been slow to adopt social media. We’ve
Some readers know that Peter Deegan (our editor-in-chief) is an eclipse chaser. The USA eclipse next Monday will be his tenth Total Eclipse of the Sun. Here’s his tips and links for anyone heading for the totality zone and for people who can’t make it. A total eclipse of the
The New York Times has a nifty new calendar of upcoming space related events including eclipses, meteor showers, launches etc. Here’s how to add the NYT Astronomy and Space Calendar into Outlook software. The service is directly linked to Google and Apple iOS devices (iPhone / iPad ) with Outlook
Amber Rudd, the British Home Secretary was tricked into an email exchange with someone posing as her own communications chief. It’s very embarrassing because Ms Rudd is responsible for cyber security as well as MI5 (the UK equivalent of the US FBI). The Minister was using an Outlook.com account which
Microsoft is changing the names of the various Office 2016 for Windows releases (Office 365) including Insider editions. They say it’s ‘simplified’ but we’re not so sure. Insider Fast level becomes just ‘Insider’ Source: Microsoft While the old Insider Slow becomes Monthly Channel (Targeted) – how that’s ‘simplified’ is anyone’s
Can you believe it, PowerPoint is 30 years old? Originally called ‘Presenter’, in 1987 it was renamed to ‘PowerPoint’ by Robert Gaskins. Later in 1987, Microsoft bought the software out of petty cash (i.e. $14 million). 22 May 1990 was the first release of Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, the birthday
The Microsoft Office Championships are done for 2017 with talented young people from all over the planet among the winners. We have the full list of winners. The competition is for students 13-22 years with categories for Word, Excel and PowerPoint in 2013 or 2016 versions. Outlook, Access, Visio and
India has seen Office 365 prices go up by almost 18% since the start of this year, a combination of both Microsoft and the Indian government grabbing some money. According to ndtv.com Office 365 Home cost 4,199 rupees last year, now the same product costs 5,450 rupees! How did that
Where does Outlook hide its main data files? The .PST or .OST files which have your email, calendar, contacts and more. Outlook data files can be anywhere on your computer, but the default location is usually in a hidden folder: \Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook \Users\<username>\Roaming\Local\Microsoft\Outlook The location can vary a lot, depending on
A common Windows Indexing / Search problem is Outlook itself. Windows Search stops while indexing Outlook data and never reaches the end. Here’s some suggestions on how to fix it. An indexing problem means your Outlook data can’t be searched or not everything has been indexed (partial search results). Even
The British Library has a collection of over a million copyright free images for use in Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. They are on Flickr and a good place to start is the albums. A few that caught our eye are: Women of the World Illustrated Letters and Typography –
Calibre, the invaluable ebook and e-reader management software, has improved. It now has Microsoft Word document conversion to and from MOBI, EPUB and other ebook formats. Until recently, Calibre could convert from Word .docx files to make .mobi (Kindle) or .epub (other readers) or many other formats. With version 3,
Jacob Brogan launches a deserved broadside on Microsoft Word’s grammar checker in Slate. ” Microsoft’s grammar and style tools aren’t helping writers understand their work, just arbitrarily imposing anemic pedantry on them. “ He gives practical examples of mistakes in the latest ‘Editor’ English grammar checker. Replacing ‘the majority of’
PowerPoint has been used for many things and how you can add romancing to the list. Twitter user @velzzb was asked for first date suggestions. As a helpful Microsoft Office user, he replied in the form of PowerPoint slides … as you do. For his trouble, he got blocked by
The free office suite, LibreOffice, has released with better Microsoft Office compatibility and a sly dig at their bigger rival. LibreOffice 5.4 has its own Open Document Format (.odt etc.) which is similar to Microsoft’s .docx format. LibreOffice can work with both formats. v5.4 has improvements in the Microsoft Office
If Windows / Outlook indexing isn’t working properly, there’s a buried tool that should help identify the problem. We’ll show you where this tool is and what to do with the information it has. It’s the Event Viewer, Windows logging of what happens on your computer. Windows Search notes its
Microsoft has released Visio Online, a browser based version of Visio to what they call ‘public preview’. Visio is the diagramming component of Microsoft Office. It’s goes way beyond the simple SmartArt flowcharts and graphics possible within Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Source: Microsoft Visio automatically links shapes and connectors. As
WhatsApp can still work on the same account if you change the mobile number or SIM card. You can even move your WhatsApp account to a different smartphone. You might think that a WhatsApp account is tied to your phone number, but that’s not true at all. WhatsApp (like other
Here’s how to delete whole pages or rearrange the page order from a PDF document without paying for PDF editing software. A lot of people never need PDF editing software. Making PDF’s is easy using Microsoft Office or the ‘Print to PDF’ feature in Windows. Simple editing, like deleting pages
Typing on a little Smartphone screen is a pain and happily there are PC desktop, Mac and tablet extensions for both WhatsApp and Signal. There are ‘big screen’ options to read and send WhatsApp and Signal messages from a larger screen. A Windows PC, Mac computer or a tablet device
Lost in the ‘news’ about Paint is the confirmation that Outlook Express is dead. Like the Norwegian Blue Parrot it’s going to join the choir invisible. Microsoft will be dropping Outlook Express from the supplied programs in the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators update. Outlook Express is finally getting removed.
