Outlook for Mac is now available to all, no payment or subscription required. It combines email, calendar and contacts in the one app. Anyone with a recent Mac computer can install Outlook for Mac for email, calendar and contacts from the App Store. All the common and most less-common email
Recent investigations have revealed some worrying truths about the risks in opening OneNote notebooks, a surprising fact about .one files, some bad news and good news. Criminals are increasingly sending out nasty OneNote .one files in emails, taking advantage of another Microsoft security ‘blind spot’. OneNote Embedded File Abuse from
Microsoft’s hints that AI ‘help’ is coming soon to Word, Outlook and other Office apps are for investors not paying customers. Don’t get too excited (or worried) about the immediate future of AI tools into either Search or Office apps. There are problems with current AI offerings and traps for
Excel has three different ways to see a partial formula result to help you locate and fix a problem or understand how a formula works. Two methods have been in Excel for some time and there’s a new tooltip feature. Evaluate Formula The full Evaluate Formula has been around since
Excel has a simple way to understand or fix a complex formula. Evaluate Formula lets you calculate parts of a formula and see interim results that make up the final value that appears in the cell. It’s on the Formulas tab under Formula Auditing. Evaluate Formula isn’t new, just little
There’s a better, more selective way to choose which shapes, images or other objects to ‘Morph’ between slides in PowerPoint 365, 2021 and 2019. Morph in PowerPoint is a way to transition between two slides with a nice smooth effect like this. The Morph transition normally applies to either all
Microsoft has released a quick ‘TikTok style’ video which is strange and not that helpful at showing some good Excel and Office features. We’ll explain what the video is trying to show off (Excel Conditional Formatting) and some more Office tricks too! We found it in one of Microsoft 365’s
2023 is the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese calendar. There’s plenty of rabbit, bunny and other New Year related images, icons and Chinese character 兔 in Microsoft Office plus advice on the right colors to use for Chinese New Year graphics. Chinese New Year is on 22 January
Here are the best ways to get results from Microsoft Forms into an Excel workbook. Sadly they aren’t the elegant and efficient ways available in modern Microsoft Excel 365, 2021 or 2019 for Windows. We’ll explain how to get Microsoft Forms results into Excel for better filtering and analysis. Then
Microsoft is working on extending OpenAI features like ChatGPT to help people write Word documents based on a short suggestion. And there’s a lot more possible given Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI, even a koala poem ‘written’ by Dorothy Parker. Office Watch has been looking at ChatGPT’s ability to write Office
The Washington Post confirms that you can save a lot on Internet service by shopping around. But the article doesn’t mention what keeps people with the same ISP and paying way too much for Internet access – using email supplied by the ISP. Moving your email address away from your
Microsoft Office has plenty of important changes and end dates coming in 2023, starting with two in January. Here’s a list of what Microsoft has in store for their paying customers. Microsoft 365 app coming in January 2023 The Office mobile app (the ‘all in one’ app) is being changed
Microsoft is hyping their “Microsoft 365 app” but here’s what’s really happening, when the changes will happen and why it’s more hype and rebranding than useful improvements for Microsoft 365 customers. There’s really two parts to this “new” Microsoft 365, changes to the Office.com web site and later, a “Microsoft
PowerPoint is getting a Portrait or vertical orientation option for PowerPoint mobile on Apple iPhone and iPad. Portrait mode is already in PowerPoint desktop (Windows/Mac) though it’s hidden. Portrait mode for slides and videos is quite common these days (TikTok and similar are all portrait) even though it offends purists
Don’t miss a match in the 2022 FIFA World Cup (soccer) in Qatar. Here’s how to keep track of your team and when the live broadcast will be in your time zone – all by adding a calendar to Microsoft Outlook. Where to get reliable match details and add them
Microsoft Create is a new part of Microsoft 365 that will replace the existing Office templates site and more. Office Watch explains how to use the Create site now, the many categories available and what’s to come. Cut through all the usual Microsoft Hype™ like “ultimate creator launchpad” and the
You can make Windows Search index your documents and Outlook data faster and ‘catch up’ indexing your documents, pictures and emails. Here’s how for Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. Windows Search makes an index of all your files, documents and Outlook data. It’s essential for quick
The Verge has some good advice on buying an iPad and choosing between the many models available. Now’s the time to buy last year’s iPad by Dan Seifert cuts through the messy collection of Apple iPad models with this core advice … … thing that remains the same is it is
Yet again, Microsoft finds itself accused of “censoring” some “politically incorrect language” in another outbreak of the culture war. It puts Office Watch in the unusual situation of defending Microsoft, using some facts about how Microsoft Word really works. There are all sorts of accusations being spread, most of which
The latest Microsoft Office 365 for Windows has a new and, to date, undocumented, toolbar or “personalized Office experience”. This ‘toolbar just for you’ is both more and less than it appears. The toolbar is an effort to declutter the top or title bar of the Office apps. Microsoft has
Last week Microsoft made a series of announcements of new and changed features in Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365. Here’s a brief roundup of what the main ten promises and what they mean for you (if anything). The important word is ‘announcement’. Almost all the statements are about future arrivals,
The Windows 11 late 2022 update (called 22H2) is quite different from earlier Windows updates. We’ll explain how it’s different and some thoughts about why Microsoft is trickling out the changes over time.. In the past, major updates to Windows were installed and activated in one load. New and changed
Microsoft’s proposed “Outlook for Windows” replacement has some additional features but still lacks features that most people would think are essential for any mail program. This “New Outlook” can’t do things that the Outlook apps for Windows, Mac, Apple and Android could do from the start. The “New Outlook” is
Tasks in Outlook have been given a major update with the development of Microsoft To Do. To Do is way better than the old Tasks with more options, its own app and web page options. It’s available for everyone but works best with a Microsoft hosted mailbox (Outlook.com, Microsoft 365
