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Criminals try using Microsoft Office to get money from you using various phone scams impersonating Microsoft. Here’s how to protect yourself. Scammers are clever, sophisticated and look very sincere. Often there are stark warnings about dire consequences. In the end they want your money, infect your computer, steal your personal
Amazon UK was offering Microsoft 365 Family at more than £25 less than the usual price for both new and renewing customers as part of their 2021 Prime Day deals. It’s still available more than a week later! There are a few peculiarities about the offer, we’ll explain those below
Tim Harford has an interesting long read on spreadsheets from its origins in the late 14th Century Italy to modern Excel with diversions into smallpox, Enron, Covid and even teasing Bill Gates. The Tyranny of Spreadsheets is on the Financial Times web site. It’s usually firewalled but the link should,
PowerPoint can show slides on a screen as a high-tech signboard, using a self-running presentation known as Kiosk display. Here’s how to do it plus all the settings and tricks available. We’ve all seen screens displaying information on a series of slides – maybe in a shop or conference. Maybe
Microsoft has added more stock images to Office 365 apps to help people celebrate Mental Health month (May). Also some extra app themes and pictures for Pride Month (June). Mental Health images May was Mental Health Awareness Month so Microsoft added some appropriate Stock Images for documents and slides. They
A little known but useful Teams feature is synchronizing Teams files folders to your Windows or Mac computer. Files are available quickly, more easily and offline via Explorer or Finder. But there’s a trick to getting it working. The official way to access documents and files in Teams is via
Microsoft has announced their plans for later this year with additions to Teams, Whiteboard and an expansion of their Fluid components concept. None of these things are available now. It’s all future promises, nothing substantial customers can use today. Let’s strip away all the hype about ‘hybrid’ workplaces that are
OneDrive has quietly boosted one of its most important features, the ability to synchronize more than one account on the same computer or portable device. Here’s how for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android. It’s possible to sync almost all the OneDrive accounts you have access to. A personal OneDrive
How to type Ghana Cedi currency character in Windows or Office, especially Word. After our article about inserting Numero and other symbols into Office – trust an Office Watch reader to find a character not available in a supplied Windows / Office font: ” The currency in Ghana is the
Microsoft Word has footnotes and endnotes features but it’s surprisingly clumsy when it come to the common need for footnotes immediately after a table. Normally, Word puts Footnotes at the bottom of the page but for tables (and occasionally pictures or diagrams) you want them immediately after the table like
Here’s how to stop Microsoft Office for Mac from automatically updating itself and why you might want to do refresh the Office apps. Office 2019 / 2016 for Mac All versions of Office for Mac that have current support (currently Office 2016 and later) get: updates to fix bugs in
Microsoft changes what’s displayed in Excel Map Charts depending on your location and Microsoft’s policies in certain countries like China. We’ve had reports from people in China and Hong Kong that they can’t ‘see’ Taiwan on their Excel Map Charts. In most of the world, China and Taiwan show up
Paying less for Microsoft 365 Family or Personal isn’t easy these days. Why is that and what discount options are still available? There was a time, not so long ago, when getting a discounted price for a Microsoft 365 consumer plan wasn’t hard. All the major retailers sold Microsoft 365
How to type the ‘Numero’ symbol and other special characters – there’s many ways to do it in Word and Office. It all started with a single, seemingly simple, question from a reader. As often happens, the question opens up a whole range of options in Office Entering the Numero sign
Microsoft Outlook is in the final stages of a major improvement in the ‘plumbing’ behind synchronizing calendars across an organization. Leaving aside a particularly outrageous Redmond boast, the changes are welcome enhancements. Outlook and Exchange Server can have difficulties coping with fast changing appointment and meeting arrangements. When several people
Review mode is a very useful sharing choice in OneDrive and Sharepoint for Microsoft Word documents only. It lets people look over and comment on a Word document without changing the text. Only Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Education customers can get Review Mode. Look for it at the bottom of
The Block Download option is worth considering when sharing an Office document, audio file or PDF that you’d like to limit distribution in OneDrive or SharePoint. Block Download is only available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Education customers. Look for it at the bottom of the shared Link Settings. What
The options for sharing documents and files will be changing over the next twelve months for the Office 365 apps, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive. Year of Sharing The whole suite of changes is what Microsoft is grandly calling the ‘Year of Sharing’. That’s overstating things because there’s little or no
Esports (online gaming) is getting serious. Tomorrow the Financial Modelling World Cup pits eight Excel experts against each other in an online tournament. Instead of fighting battles or virtual sports, this is a test of Excel skills. It’s being called the ‘888 Battle’ 8 Contestants from 8 Countries on 8th
Office for Windows can have an extra on the Home pane – Recommended Documents which tries to suggest documents you’re involved with. Here’s what’s possible with this feature including how to hide it away and leave more screen space for the things you want to see. Source: Microsoft Recent Documents
How to sort a list using a hidden or unseen column in a Microsoft Word table. Sometimes you want to sort a list in a way that isn’t apparent to the reader. To continue our Apollo theme, here’s a list of the twelve men who walked on the moon with
You can hide a table column in Word, all it takes is a little trickery and ignoring Microsoft’s advice! Sometimes you want to hide a table column in a Word document but according to Microsoft you can’t do it. Here’s how to do it anyway. It’s true that there’s no
Google Maps is invaluable for getting around, especially in an unknown city. Corporate rivalry means there’s no proper integration between Microsoft Outlook and Google Maps There’s not even a mapping button in the Outlook appointments view. Contacts have a ‘Map it’ button but not ‘Location’ in an appointment – for
A few annoying things in Excel 365 / 2019 / 2021 / LTSC Map charts that Microsoft should fix. We’ll explain the traps and some workarounds. Making our COVID-19 Vaccination workbook reminded us of some anomalies in Excel Map Charts. Always check the Map area options Whenever using the Map
