A good friend of Office Watch had their Gmail account hacked and asked Peter the obvious question … what should I do? Our friend (no name, no shame) was ‘lucky’. The hackers didn’t change her password so she could still access her account. They sent an email to everyone in
You’ve bought your Office 365 ‘subscription’ from an online store – what can you do when it goes wrong? Office Watch has said, many times, that it’s usually cheaper to buy Office 365 Personal or Home from a retailer. Microsoft itself charges the highest prices and are best avoided for
Microsoft is getting praise for its latest legal outing against the US government but they are being somewhat hypocritical too. The company is suing the US government for the right to notify customers when the government asks for private information stored on behalf of a customer. The case seems to
Arthur J writes “I have several people attached to my Office 365 Home package but can’t figure out who has them and what email address they use. I know this sounds silly but my family regularly change computers and email addresses.” The information you need is in the Office 365
Officially, Office 365 ‘subscribers’ get 1TB of OneDrive storage but it’s possible to get more, without paying and only a little trickery. For a time, Office 365 customers could use unlimited OneDrive storage but Microsoft changed their mind and they reduced that to 1TB. 1 Terabyte is enough for most
Microsoft is rolling out changes to the main Office 365 web page. You’re presented with the bewildering array of tiles for the many Office 365 related services and products. Source: Microsoft Clicking on Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote will open up the online (browser) versions of those products. Or choose
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has dug into the detail of WhatsApp and it’s move to better encryption. Office Watch has already noted the limitations of WhatsApp and their much publicized change. If you’re interested in the detail of WhatsApp security and how it works, check out the EFF study. The
An interesting leak from Microsoft reveals they are developing a new way to edit Word document. Called ‘Play Write’ is described as a “mobile microproductivity application that works with Word to allow people to edit Word documents from their phone via microtasks.” Don’t get too excited. Play Write is only
Microsoft has now pushing out to Office 365 subscribers a new feature for Outlook 2016 for Windows – One click Archive. You can find it easily, it’s on the left side of the Home tab. This feature is essentially a ‘one click’ move to a folder of your choice. Unlike
Adding and changing links in Word is, like many things in Office, has more power than it initially seems. Adding a link To begin at the beginning … To add a link into Word (or any Office document / email), select the text, press Ctrl + K then enter/paste in
A new, clever and dangerous type of email is currently about. It tricks you into thinking it’s genuine by using your name and street address not just your email address. Here’s an example with the name and address obscured: Source: BBC with the name removed by us Even the company
If you’re looking for an interesting image or pattern for your PowerPoint presentation or Windows desktop … NASA has a treat for you. ASTER is the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer. A joint US/Japan Earth observing satellite which creates the most amazing and colorful images. Of course, the
It’s the first Tuesday of the month and according to the new schedule it’s time for non-security updates to Microsoft Office. Translation: more bug fixes. Microsoft hasn’t published a list of these fixes. The ‘Sustained Engineering Blog’ is silent. Below is a list of the Office 2016 for Windows updates
Microsoft has released new Office Tools for Visual Studio as part of their continuing effort to integrate Office with other parts of the Microsoft world. Perhaps most interesting to Office developers is the ability to add buttons to existing tabs. That might not seem like a big deal but it’s
WhatsApp is getting credit, including fawning praise, for turning on End-to-end encryption for their very popular messaging product. Looking a little deeper into WhatsApp shows that it’s not as great as the hype might have you think. For starters, WhatsApp is late to the ‘end to end encryption’ party. Other
As the author of a popular Windows 10 book (thanks to the thousands who have bought it so far) Peter knows he’s supposed to be an enthusiastic and unquestioning shill for Windows 10. But that’s not the Office Watch way … we tell you what we think … We’ll look
There’s a small but important change coming to the way Microsoft sends out updates to Office. Microsoft has two types of updates – security updates (fixes for the never ending list of gaps that hackers might use) and non-security updates (aka ‘bug fixes’). Until now, both types of updates have
One of the cheapest places to buy Microsoft Office is at Amazon.com, you can save even more if you plan a week or more ahead. For some time, we’ve noticed a curious pricing anomaly at Amazon. Amazon charges customers more for their least costly fulfillment option (for Amazon) The more
Lot’s of chatter about Apple’s latest accessory – Microsoft Office! Apple is now selling MS Office software at the Apple Store online. This isn’t surprising. While Apple have their own office software apps (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) they know that a lot of iPad users will turn to Microsoft Office,
When you first start Outlook or in a new profile you will probably see a starting box that seems to get stuck at the 30% mark … what to do? You can wait and Outlook will eventually get going. It might seem like forever ….. Or you can shut Outlook
We’ve already discussed which folders Outlook checks when you do a search but there’s another thing to consider – what does Outlook search in each item? Each Outlook item has many parts, among them are; a message has To, From, Subject and Message Body, Calendar items have subject, location, organizer
Apple has released a new iPad Pro with a 9.7″ screen – and that means a $100 a year saving for Microsoft Office users. Here’s why … The Microsoft Office apps for Apple and Android devices have a 10.1″ screen threshold. Devices BELOW 10.1″ can use the Office apps free
Aside from blocking the download of large messages, Outlook has another way to reduce its downloads. On the Send/Receive tab there’s the Download Preferences options. Download Full Items – the default, the entire message is downloaded immediately. Download Headers and then Full Items – first Outlook grabs all the message
An Office Watch friend is about to visit Cuba and emailed with an interesting Outlook problem that travellers might have anywhere in the world. The problem is limited Internet access. In Cuba the speeds may be slow and connection erratic. It’s an issue Peter has struck in many places across
