Greg L writes with another viewpoint on the great ” Office 32 vs 64-bit debate” ” 64-bit Office isn’t compatible with the Common Controls. A 64-bit version of the Common Controls may never happen. Add-ins and macros that use them won’t work. When Excel 2010 came out, I was on
How big and long can you go with Outlook? As usual with Microsoft Office, there are no simple answers to some of these questions. Outlook itself has few size limits because the PST/OST system has been adapted over time to expand way beyond current needs. But Outlook can appear to
Vision Australia has released a Word tool that helps ensure documents can be read by people who have trouble reading standard documents. All documents (Word, web pages etc) can include special, hidden, codes which allows the information to be reformatted to suit people with special requirements. For example, instead of
A Windows 10 patch can cause trouble for Office 2010, 2013 and 2016 for Windows users. Yet another faulty update from Microsoft in recent months. “It’s like deja-vu all over again” This time it’s a Windows 10 update called KB3124200 – a rollup of various patches into a single download.
If you’re looking for legal images for your document or presentation, one site to try is Pickit.com Pickit has thousands of images available, many from photographers who have uploaded their images to the site. While it’s targeted at PowerPoint users, it can be used whenever stock images are useful such
Microsoft has now provided a fix for the bad Outlook patch we told you about last week, though they’ve done it in a strangely clumsy way. The original patch KB3114409 for Outlook 2010 sometimes caused Outlook to always start in Safe Mode. After this failure of internal testing, Microsoft had
Microsoft has slightly backtracked on their OneDrive storage cutback decision from last month. Free accounts were dropped to a lowly 5GB while paid Office 365 accounts were reduced to 1Terabyte from ‘unlimited’ (with no drop in the annual fee). Now free accounts can keep their 15GB limit plus any ‘camera
Pantone, the commercial color company has announced its “Colors of the Year” for 2016. Here’s how to use the latest ‘in’ colors in your Microsoft Office documents. ‘Color of the Year’ is an end-of-year marketing trick by Pantone. It gets the company some free advertising and people talk about colors.
Microsoft has again released a bad patch for Microsoft Office and it’s particularly embarrassing. The December 2015 patch called KB 3114409 was supposed to stop a problem where Outlook 2010 started in Safe Mode. Instead the patch did the reverse … it forced Outlook 2010 into Safe Mode. Oh dear.
Word has a simple way to let you change standard text within a document – it’s called document properties. These are settings or constants that are hidden in the document ‘meta-data’ and can be inserted into the document. One document property is called ‘Subject’ which can have a value like
What does it mean to be an Office Insider? Microsoft has launched an ‘Office Insider’ program boasting ‘early access’ to ‘new Office innovations’ and giving people a place in the ‘ongoing process’ of Office development. It’s a reformulation of the Office beta testing program into an ongoing ‘advance view’ of
Apple’s iPad Pro has been released, to mixed reviews. But there’s little mention of the special requirements for Microsoft Office users that don’t apply to other iPad’s. To use the Office for iPad apps on an iPad Pro, you must have an Office 365 subscription. Regular iPads can use the
Which do you choose? Microsoft Office 32-bit or 64-bit? Does it matter? We’ve talked about this before ( 64-Bit Office – Is It Worth The Trouble? ) but it’s worth revisiting since computers have changed and so has the way Office is delivered. Microsoft now defaults to installing 32-bit Office
Microsoft Australia has a ‘cash back‘ deal on Office 365 subscriptions (new or renewal) bought until 3 January 2016. It’s worth checking out and we have some extra tips to help you get the most from Microsoft’s (temporary) largesse. Like most people, we don’t like ‘cash back’ offers. They are
Here’s how to keep using Office 2013 on your computer and not make the switch to Office 2016 for Windows. Office 365 subscribers are encouraged to use the latest version of Office. It’s one of the main benefits of the annual fee option for Microsoft Office. For most people, the
Microsoft’s advice for Office 365 customers switching to Office 2016 for Windows leaves out some important points. Here’s the real story based on experiences from Office Watch readers across the globe. The Theory According to Microsoft there’s two ways for an Office 365 subscribers with Office 2013 to switch over
Outlook users might be having trouble, caused by one of the most recent security patches from Microsoft. The November 2015 security patch referenced MS15-115 is supposed to stop attacks via fonts. Unfortunately, the security fix seems to have broken Outlook’s ability to display HTML formatted emails. Not for all users,
The November 2015 release of Office patches includes a lot more than the usual security updates. There are major changes to Power Pivot in Excel 2013. There’s three separate patches involved. Two of the patches (KB3039739 and KB3039800) are actually part 1 and part 2 of the same update. There
September’s Excel 2013 ‘security’ update is more like a bug patch. As usual, Microsoft has tried to bury the bug news by bundling the fixes with some vague ‘security’ issues. The documentation for the bug fixes is in KB3085502 which is misleadingly titled as a ‘Description of the security update
Apple users are excited that the iOS 9.1 update includes ‘the finger’ emoji, officially called ‘Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended’. The symbol is already in some Microsoft Windows fonts but it doesn’t look the same as the Apple version. In fact, it doesn’t look the same in the two
As we’ve already mentioned, it’s safer and more reliable to use images, not fonts, for emoji in Office documents and Outlook emails. Just to add more confusion, there are “emoji’s” released which are supplied as standard images not fonts. Some examples of ‘image’ emojis: Australian radio network Triple-J released some
Emoji are those funny little icons that appear in text/SMS messages and some emails. Emoji have become quite the thing. More are being added to mobile phones, especially Apple devices. Originally intended to show emotions in text messages, they’ve expanded to other uses and overlap with many common symbols from
We’re big fans of BT Sync. It’s a great way to sync files and media between a range of computers and devices. It can do it wherever the devices are, as long as they are connected to the Internet. The synchronization happens directly between the computers. There’s no cloud storage
There’s been some welcome changes to the Office apps for Android. These updates have been, or will soon be, pushed out to devices. Office for Android Overall each app is now about 50% smaller than before. Word for Android takes up 66MB. That’s good for those of us with limited
