Microsoft is boasting that Office 365 is now available in eleven more countries, though that’s a bit of hype. The ‘new’ countries where you can buy Office 365 plans are: ” Bhutan, Cambodia, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Laos, Maldives, Martinique, Mozambique, Myanmar and Vatican City “ Some of these might catch your
Maybe Microsoft thinks that all ‘foreigners’ are stupid or don’t understand technology? Their Outlook ‘concessions’ to the EU regarding the LinkedIn buyout are laughable. LinkedIn, the large social media site, is being bought by Microsoft for $26 billion but faces opposition from rivals. Salesforce, in particular, is fighting the merge
Our extended coverage of Word’s AutoText feature uncovered some peculiarities and annoyances but mostly the yawning gap between the ribbon/menu options and the field code features. What you see on the menu, drop down lists and options for AutoText aren’t reflected in the AUTOTEXTLIST field code. AUTOTEXTLIST makes a little
There are long-standing but hidden parts to AutoText that’s worth checking out – the field codes. Two Word field codes apply to AutoText: {AutoText } – inserts or updates the named AutoText field automatically. {AutoTextList } makes a menu of some or all AutoText entries to select from. These field
We’re not sure what has got to Microsoft in Britain but they’re offering some excellent prices on Office 365 annual ‘subscription’ at the moment. Around 40% off the regular price for renewals and new customers. The usual prices for Office 365 in the ‘Mother Country’ are: Home (5 users/licences) £79.99
If you want to pay more for Office 365, just renew automatically when your subscription ends. There’s a cheaper way and you’ll get 13 months for less than Microsoft will charge you for 12. Here’s how: You can renew or extend your Office 365 Home or Personal account at any
Officially there’s one way to insert common or reused text into a Word document – but really there’s two options, depending you on your need. We’ll show you both! We recently told you about Quick Parts and AutoText to be used in Outlook emails, now let’s look at those same
Several readers have asked for a fix to an annoyance in Outlook’s handling of AutoText for emails and replies. They’d like to have different AutoText menus for each Outlook account. Many people have multiple email accounts for different roles in our life. An individual has a personal email account plus,
Many media reports about an early end to Office 2007 support which are true, but not for the vast majority. Some press either didn’t understand what’s happening or decided to ‘spin’ it for clickbait. Microsoft needs to accept some blame for this confusion because they didn’t publicly announce the change
Microsoft’s explanations for Office bug fixes range from deliberately delayed, to duplicated through ambiguous wording to no explanation at all! We can only hope that the bug fixes themselves were done with more care and professionalism than the documentation. Delayed Disclosure Microsoft has long had a policy of deliberately keeping
If you’re interested in the hard numbers about the 2016 US election, David Wasserman @redistrict has done the work for you. Channel your inner ‘Nate Silver’ <g>. Go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133Eb4qQmOxNvtesw2hdVns073R68EZx4SfCnP4IGQf8/htmlview?sle=true#gid=19 to see a ‘read only’ Google Docs worksheet showing the state-by-state results. Not visible above are columns with the total
Coming soon to Office 2016 for Windows for Office 365 subscribers is a new type of graphic – the icon. Office 365 Insiders have this now and it’ll be sent to all Office 2016 for Windows/Office 365 subscribers in 2017. It’s an addition to the Insert tab and needs an
Office 2016 for Windows will soon support scalable vector graphics (SVGs). Preview/Insiders can try them now and it’ll be available to all Office 365 subscribers in 2017. That means you’ll be able to make your documents look even better with vector-based SVG files that won’t pixelate when increased in size.
Microsoft has announced that the Access database program will get added database connectors in early 2017. The announcement was a bit vague on date, detail and which Access users will be getting these additional features. Date “Early 2017” before 1 April 2017 or sometime in the next 4½ months. Detail
Microsoft Access, the database part of Office has been added to more Office 365 plans. Access will be automatically included with Office 2016 downloads and updates from 1 December 2016 onwards for Office 365 users on Business and Business Premium plans. Office 365 ProPlus, E3 and E5 plans already include
A collaboration option for the more security conscious is Semaphor, from the same company as the SpiderOak secure cloud storage. An important consideration with any cloud service is the risk of intrusion into the information you’ve saved on the cloud servers. Cloud providers talk a lot about data security to
CodeWeavers, the people behind CrossOver, have announced that the next version will support much of Office 2013. That means it will be possible to run the Windows versions of Word 2013, Excel 2013,PowerPoint 2013 and Project 2013 on Linux or MacOS systems, using CrossOver v16. Office 365 subscribers will be
Microsoft Office apps for Android have been updated in October with some tricks from other Office apps now available on Android. Now individual chart elements can be chosen and manipulated rather than only the entire chart. This applies to all charts in Word, Excel or PowerPoint apps. PowerPoint now gets
Microsoft has released its version of the popular new method of team communication – messaging. Microsoft Teams is an ‘instant-messaging plus’ addition to Office 365 Enterprise plans which offers group communication (similar to instant messaging), private ‘one on one’ messaging, document collaboration, video/audio group calls. It’s Redmond answer to Slack
A story in the UK’s Daily Telegraph got us thinking about some of the traps when buying Microsoft Office with a new computer. The Telegraph reader bought a new computer and was told by staff that Office 2007 wasn’t supported on the new computer. The reader was sold, as a
A new trick in Word for Windows and eventually other Office apps is the Ink Editor. With Ink Editor on, you can use the drawing actions to highlight or delete text using ‘drawing’ actions. Highlight To highlight text, click on Ink Editor then choose one of the highlight options in
Word has many ways to view a document. Some are obvious, others aren’t so obvious. Let’s look at both types. We’ll first look at the shortcuts and quick ways to change view, then go into more detail on some more interesting part of modern Word for Windows – the windows
They didn’t have projection screens, online chats, document collaboration, equation editor, whiteboards, colored shirts or, apparently, women … Source: widely available on the net, supposedly from NASA
Today’s big announcement from Microsoft was mostly about the future and the future is 3D. A small part of that future is in PowerPoint. The new major release of Windows 10 will be in 2017 and called the ‘Creators Update’. It will have a lot of 3D enabled elements. Microsoft
