Microsoft has today dropped their promise of ‘unlimited’ OneDrive storage for Office 365 customers. Their lame excuse for the reduction is an insult to their customers. “Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away” What Office 365 subscribers (Home, Personal and University) now get: 1TB of OneDrive storage, down from ‘unlimited’ storage.
Over the last few days there’s been some talk about companies which stop customers from suing them either individually or as group. Does that apply to people who buy Microsoft Office? The New York Times has a long piece on the move by a wide range of US companies have
After a few weeks of frustration for Macintosh users, Apple has released a patch which will, hopefully, fix the Office 2016/Mac crashes. According to Apple the El Capitan Update 10.11.1 ‘Improves compatibility’ with Microsoft Office 2016 which is corporate weasel words for ‘fixed bugs’. Another 150+ new emojis is the
Microsoft has a very limited offer for anyone who has recently purchased Office 2013 for Windows or Office 2011 for Mac. Update: the offer was changed from the original announcement. It’s now $40 to upgrade (not $40 off) and the Office 365 option dropped. Alas the method of claiming this
When is a ‘security’ update for Office not a security update? When Microsoft bundles a lot of other bug fixes and new features at the same time. Under the heading “Description of the security update for Office 2016 for Mac: October 13, 2015” is a surprisingly large number of non-security
Office 2016 for Mac users are right to be unhappy with Apple and Microsoft as troubles continue with Office and the new ‘El Capitan’ release of Mac OSx. Thousands of people have gone to forums and Office support to complain that Outlook for Mac crashes after the El Capitan update of
Office 365 services are now available from three data centers in India at Mumbai, Pune and Chennai. That should mean slightly better performance (lower latency) for Office 365 users in India that are connected to one of those data centers. Generally speaking, the location of your Office 365 data doesn’t
The evolution of Office for Apple devices continues with the release of Word, Excel and PowerPoint v1.14 for iOS. New in this release are: Rename is now available from the File menu Word: New navigation method for long documents. “Scroll, hold and drag” to jump directly to a page. Word:
” I have a lot of acronyms in a document and would like to add a link to a glossary each time an acronym is used. But I can’t figure out how to add a link to existing text using Replace. ” It’s a fairly obvious thing that’s possible in
Sending files via email is simple but is changing as new technologies become commonly available. Here’s what’s possible in Outlook and new in Outlook 2016. Simple Attachments Outlook Attachments 101. In any email you can attach files in two ways: Use Insert | Attach File from the ribbon Or Drag
There are two broad types of links in Word documents. We’re all familiar with external links, usually to web sites. External External links are easy and most likely you use them often to add a link to an external web site from a Word document. As usual, there are more
Office 2016 is now rolling out to Office 365 subscribers. To help you make the most of it is Office 2016: the real startup guide. “Things you need to know that Microsoft won’t tell you: saving money, installing, configuring and using Office 2016 for Windows” Office 2016: the real startup
Update: this article has been superseded by a November 2015 article Switch from Office 2013 to Office 2016 – the real story which covers more recent changes and traps in the Office 2016 for Windows install options. To say nothing of our famous and popular guide to Office 2016 for
“I’ve got a renewal notice for my Office 365 subscription saying that I’ll pay $9.99 a month automatically off my credit card. I remember you saying that offers direct from Microsoft are overpriced … does that apply to renewals?” Arnold W. NY Yes, it certainly does. Renewing direct with Microsoft
Unlike consumer subscribers of Office 365, organizations using Microsoft Office have more options for deploying Office 2016. If your organization is on a Volume Licencing agreement, the Office 2016 install files will be available for download from 1st October 2015 (not the 22 Sept general release date). Introducing Current Branch
Microsoft has released a little information about how they are releasing Office 2016/Win into the wild for consumers. Very little info indeed, just one sentence (see below). We’ll tell you what we know, can find out and how to stop Microsoft forcing Office 2016 on you. Office 2016 for consumers
Next Tuesday will see the official release of Office 2016 for Windows. It’s more of a marketing landmark than a genuine release since the preview software has been available to almost anyone for months. The Office 2016 for Windows release events might be sub-titled ‘Much ado about nothing’The Office 2016
Microsoft has released updates to the free Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 – Word Mobile, Excel, Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, and OneNote. But what are you getting in the updates? There’s nothing with the updates to tell you. The Windows 10 Store seems to have no provision for documenting updates
Editing an image in Office is not a way to hide the original details or redact a photo. Images in a document can be fully redacted by replacing the image with black box (or other full color block). But what if only want to hide/redact part of the image? That’s
More on redacting or editing to hide your personal information. We’ve already shown you how to redact in Word, but what about images and PDF files? Images Almost any image editor will let you black out parts of the picture. Here’s how with Windows Paint, which comes with all versions
Redaction is ‘black-lining’ a document so other people can’t see personal or confidential information. Governments, companies and individuals all do it, though few go as far as the European Commission which released a 14 page letter from a tobacco company with almost completely redacted including, in some cases, the page
As a long time space buff, anything NASA related will get a look from me but http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/ is really impressive. Anyone interested in the first manned moon landing will love the site: They’ve combined and synchronized the audio, video and some data from the landing sequence into a single display.
In the UK there’s a very sad example of email going awry. Hundreds of people with HIV being ‘outed’ when a London clinic sent out an email newsletter wrongly. A staffer at the clinic sent out a regular newsletter but put the names & emails of the recipients in the
Microsoft has released a new Office app called Snip. Snip is a way to grab images from your screen or camera, edit them and then insert into Office documents or emails as well as share on social media. Snip is from Microsoft Garage meaning it’s in preview and perhaps a
