Microsoft 365 – the subscription / annual fee plan for Microsoft Office on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Includes Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365, Outlook 365 and many other ‘365’ programs, apps and services.
Microsoft has started dropping ads into Office 2021 in another attempt to switch customers off single-payment Microsoft Office and on to the annual ‘subscription’ Microsoft 365. UPDATED: this article now updated after hearing from some Office Watch readers (always a handy way to find out what’s really happening with Office software!). Office 2021 users are […]
An important and useful new option is coming to Word 365’s collaboration options ‘Review only’ aka ‘Reviewing’ mode. There’s also a workaround to get a similar power in other versions of Microsoft Word. Until now sharing a document was only possible in two ways. Either sharing the editing of the document or make the document […]
Microsoft has announced a new Symbols Server for Microsoft Office which is a good move but not what most people think of when they see the word ‘Symbols’. These symbols are NOT characters like £ € ™ nor emoji such as ❄️❤️🎂 or the infamous eggplant🍆 😁 The new symbols are a technical resource for […]
You have an Apple iPad but do you know all the different ways that Microsoft Office can run on an iPad. There are four different options, some free and others you have to pay for. Why bother? Surely you just install the Office mobile apps and that’s it? Sadly no, and there are advantages to […]
When you open a master document in Microsoft Word it might give you a scare. Instead of showing the document text all you see is some links. All the subdocuments will appear as hyperlinks in the master document. To see the entire master document with sub-documents go to View | Outline. The Outlining bar will […]
