There’s just one January 2016 change in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows but it’s big and very useful. We have extensive coverage of the overall changes that apply to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Check out separate articles on the specific new features in Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Like to know more?
Continuing the new policy of regularly updating Office for Windows, there’s now a new set of features being pushed out to Office 365 subscribers. This page looks at the overall changes that apply to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Check out separate articles on the specific new features in Excel, PowerPoint
Several readers have emailed to complain about yet another Office bug caused by an update pushed out by Microsoft. The company has managed to break one of their own VBA controls, used by third-party Office developers. The control mscomctl.ocx (version 6.01.9846) can cause the error “Object doesn’t support this property
Microsoft’s push of Office 365 annual payments over ‘one time’ purchases continues with the announcement that they have over 20 million consumer customers for Office 265. It’s one number from their results for the last quarter of 2015. Office 365 overall had a whopping 70% increase in revenue. But the
Microsoft Office now has significant and welcome expansion of the links to non-Microsoft cloud storage. In particular, it’s now possible to do real-time document collaboration with files shared on Box, Dropbox, Egnyte and Citrix ShareFile. Until now, you could save documents to some ‘outside’ cloud storage but not open the same
As promised, Microsoft has now opened their Office Insider program to our friends with Office for Mac. Office Insider is Microsoft’s new ‘preview’ program. Members get advance access to new releases of Office for Windows/Mac Access to Office for Mac insider is through Microsoft AutoUpdate. Open one of the Office
My Little Pony, those toys for little girls, are in a legal dispute over a font. TorrentFreak is reporting that Hasbro, owners of My Little Pony are being sued over the unauthorized use of a font. We all use fonts in our documents and presentations, but managers need to consider
Cindy M tells us about a curious oversight in Outlook … ‘Outlook will not allow me to choose a Contact Group on which to perform a mail merge. I got an error message stating “Contact groups cannot be merged. You must select a Contact.” ‘ It’s something we’d never thought
Exchange Server/Office 365 users of Outlook might see ‘Bing Maps’ links above messages, like this They appear when Outlook detects a physical address in this message body (which it does with mixed success). Click on the ‘Bing Maps’ link to open up a web page. You might not like this
When to use TO, CC, BCC in an email or Mail Merge instead. Those three email fields not only act differently but, these days, which one you use can make a difference to whether the message will be delivered. There are many different mail filtering and prioritizing systems that check
Office 2016: the real startup guide isn’t a single release, anyone who buys the ebook gets the free updates too. It’s a bit like the rolling updates to Office 2016 itself, but NO annual fee <g>. Microsoft has added some features to Office 2016 for Windows, so Office 2016: the
Microsoft’s Click to Run install may accumulate a lot of temporary files that stick around on your hard drive. They can amount to many gigabytes of wasted disk space. Amazingly, there doesn’t seem to be any official tidy up option available to reclaim all that disk space. We found 19GB
More and more, there are differences between Microsoft Office two variants the ‘Click to Run’ install and the older ‘MSI’ install (download a single large install package then install). Originally, Microsoft promoted both install options as giving the same final software but that’s changing. ‘Click to Run’ installations are now
The January 2016 updates to Office 2016 for Windows weren’t just security patches, there were also bug fixes and updates that Microsoft is doing their best to keep secret. We know of at least two bug fixes in Office 2016 that haven’t been properly documented by Microsoft. (Thanks to Office
For a long time, Microsoft has quietly fixed bugs in Office, which is a good thing. Not so good is their habit of hiding news of these fixes. If you’ve been suffering with a particular bug, it’s hard to know when or if it’s been fixed. Among the January 2016
Microsoft Office has many benefits for its millions of users and there’s scientific evidence that Office features can make you appear smarter … truly. Simpler words make you seem smarter It’s an old student trick to use bigger words in an effort to impress the teacher but it doesn’t really
Not all appointments are ‘one off’, many happen on a regular basis. Outlook lets you add these ‘recurring’ appointments just once and they’ll appear in your diary each time. There’s even allowance for exceptions when the regular event is cancelled or changed. Outlook’s recurring appointments can handle pretty much all
There are many Miracast adapters available but the best is the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter. If you get one, the hidden trick is to update the firmware. Miracast is a system for wirelessly connecting a computer to a remote screen for both video and audio. A Miracast dongle plugs into
Office for Android has been given some useful upgrades in a January 2016 update. Overall Share documents using WeChat and QQ apps. These are interesting choices because both are chat services mostly for the mainland Chinese market. Use the Share option to send a document or link via any compatible
There’s only one Office patch this month. Given Microsoft’s bad track record on patches, especially over the last few months, we can only hope that this patch is bug free. The patch itself is ‘déjà vu all over again’. It fixes yet more ways for a hacked Office document to
We’ve improved and expanded Organizing Outlook Email to fully include Outlook 2016. As usual with updates to our ebooks, the update is free to past purchasers of the 3rd edition. Among the many updates, we’ve added sections on the new attachments features in Outlook 2016. Also the Clutter feature for Exchange
Microsoft has joined with Harman to announce a project to link your car with Microsoft Office in the cloud. Sorry to pour cold water on all this but the announcement doesn’t include any products. In fact, there’s little of substance in the press release. We can look forward to having
In theory, Outlook can handle almost any number of folders or items but in practice there are performance limits, especially if you’re using Exchange Server / Office 365 hosting. See Outlook extremes – how big and long can you go with Outlook? for more details. The limits are: Outlook 2010 and Outlook
With Outlook 2007 SP2, Microsoft introduced a ‘hard’ limit on the size of outgoing emails using SMTP (ie POP or IMAP connections). This limit isn’t related to any limit imposed by the mail host, it’s a somewhat arbitrary value chosen in 2007 and not changed since. It’s still the limit
