Startup Boost is a new way to make Microsoft Word 365 start faster. Here’s how it works and how to disable it. Startup Boost is a little tech trickery. Word 365 isn’t really getting faster, instead it’s being started in the background (aka preload) where it’ll lurk until needed. In other words, Word is being […]
Office Watch reader Steve G is having a problem in Word. The F9 key isn’t updating fields in a Word document. He suspects a buggy patch of Windows or Office. Here’s how to find the source of the Function key or any keypress problem and fix it. Hint – it’s probably not a bug or […]
Last Thursday wasn’t great for Microsoft 365 Family customers who were kicked out of their legitimate Office apps because of a bug in Microsoft licensing servers. We’ll explain when happened over nine hours and what you can do if it happens again. It’s become an all too familiar story. A Microsoft update of their cloud […]
Microsoft has moved cloud services to a special domain .cloud.microsoft which is a good thing that gives us all a little more confidence in their online services. Microsoft’s services are a dreadful jumble of domains, mostly .com but also some .net. And there’s no consistency with Sharepoint and ClipChamp having its own .com (sharepoint.com clipchamp.com) […]
If your Microsoft Office 2016 apps suddenly started crashing last week, you’re not alone. Fortunately, Microsoft has rolled out an emergency fix to help users get back on track after one of their security update caused Outlook and other Office 2016 apps to stop working. The troubles started began after a recent Patch Tuesday update […]