WinFuture is reporting that Office 2016 for Windows will be officially released on 22 September 2015, quoting a screen shot from an internal Microsoft site. Source: Microsoft (allegedly) via WinFuture. An interesting bit of news, if true, but it raises some questions. Does the date matter? Does Office 2016 for
Computer security company, FireEye, is reporting that a ‘malicious Word document’ is being used to infiltrate governments in Asia, especially India. China is named as the probable source of these attacks over the last four years using a hack called ‘Watermain’. Since this report involved Microsoft Office, Office-Watch.com was interested.
If you have a datasheet subform on an Access form, containing numeric data in some columns, you may want to have column totals at the bottom of the datasheet. You can do this easily in an Excel workbook or a Word table, using a formula, but Access does it differently.
The latest Office 2016 preview has upgraded the existing collaboration features to include ‘real time’ co-authoring. If you’re having a touch of ‘déjà vu’ right now … it not your imagination. Microsoft has announced document collaboration so, so many times over the years. But each time the press falls for
Here’s a strange little trap for people using Outlook Contact Groups. A message from Outlook to a group of people was marked as spam by one mail system. The reason given is something we’ve not seen before: 2.5 SORTED_RECIPS Recipient list is sorted by address This comes from Spam Assassin, a
If you get Error #5152 when running code that saves a file, check whether there is a date formatted with slashes (2/15/2010) in the file name. Slashes are not permitted in file names, so you will get this error when trying to save a file including a date in this
If you import a macro from an Access 2010 or 2013 database into an Access 2007 (or earlier) database, it will look like this in design view: This is because macro format changed between Access 2007 and 2010 (and again between 2010 to 2013, though not as much in that
Introduction A few years ago, in Access Archon #127, I showed how to make an Access form for entering timesheet data, which was then exported to Excel. That timesheet had combo boxes in the header to select a project and a week, and columns for entering data for the days
We’ve been writing Office-Watch.com for almost 20 years and still our readers manage to surprise us. All our readers Sway questions are about using it offline and privacy of data in Sway presentations. The number and nature of the questions was unexpected. They are good questions and not just because
Here’s a quick overview of Sway. It’s easy to use (certainly easier for beginners than PowerPoint) so the best way to learn Sway is to ‘dive in’ and try it out. Sway is primarily a web based system, much like Office Online (Word, Excel or PowerPoint in a browser). Go
Microsoft Sway is now available to the general public. We told you about Sway last year when it was announced. Microsoft is calling it a ‘digital storytelling’ app which is a bit of unhelpful marketing jargon. Instead, think of Sway as a 21st Century version of PowerPoint. Cloud based, interactive,
Microsoft has released Outlook connections for the Apple Watch. With an iPhone and connected Apple Watch you’ll be able to access some Outlook email, calendar details from the tiny Watch screen. Source: Microsoft According to Microsoft the Watch app can: Give you a quick glance at the Outlook Inbox or
There’s a quick way to change the default email font in Outlook but, as is often the case with Office, the standard advice is incomplete. We’ll show you more about email fonts than Outlook help usually does. The clickbait headline Your E-mail Font Is Ruining Your Life has been appearing
With all the talk of Windows 10, even Microsoft forgot to promote a major expansion of Office for iPhone and iPad. The Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for iOS have been updated in a big way but there’s no mention on Microsoft’s own site, not even the usual blog post.
Frank B from Iowa has an interesting idea for Outlook: “Search folders can be a great tool if there’s just one simple filter, but what if you don’t want to see message from Sally, Sue, and John, but everyone else? “ In other words, Frank wants the reverse of a
Don’t believe most of the Windows 10 reviews out there. Many seem to come from writers who have swallowed whole the Microsoft hype. One ‘technology expert’ on the TV could only mention one downside to Windows 10 – the game ‘Hearts’ is missing. Oh please! There’s some nice stuff in Windows 10
There are times for all computer users when you just want to go back in time. You want to recover some words of wisdom from a past draft, or perhaps a file was deleted or lost in the ether. Just today there’s a story in the New York Post about
We were excited to see headlines about Google Drive being available within Microsoft Office. There were comparisons with Dropbox and Box, both also have links into Office. Alas, things aren’t quite what they seem. We don’t rely on press releases to write Office-Watch.com articles. Wherever possible, we actually test software
Effective Outlook Calendars is out now for Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2016. A greatly expanded and revised version of our popular ebook. An extensive guide to Outlook Calendar, appointments, events and reminder. How to use them on many computers, phones and devices. The Calendar part of Microsoft Outlook 2013
With the release of the ‘final’ Windows 10 build (10240) it’s a good time to look at the free Office apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. These apps only work on Windows 10 but are free and worth getting even if you’ll be installing the full Office software. The apps
Microsoft has released Office 2016 for Mac – a full set of Office programs for Macintosh OS X computers. There’s updated programs for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. All the new programs support Mac goodies like Retina display, Full Screen and Multi-touch. Overall, there’s little surprising or truly new
Excel has great charting features and they get better in Excel 2016. Sadly many long time Office users have been scared off charting because of the difficulties in making and editing charts in years gone by. Rest assured, Slowly but surely, Excel charts have improved. They are more robust; sometimes
Before you make an Excel chart, check the rows and columns you’ll base it on. A lot of chart problems are caused by incomplete or badly formatted data. Excel is smart at turning numbers into charts but it’ll get confused easily. Have a look at this simple table imported from
Microsoft has updated the test version of Office 2016 with some changes in features. Most likely, Office 2016 has been updated automatically, you can check from File | Account and make sure the version is 16.0.4201.1006 or later. Excel Charts The most interesting part of the update are the new
