Another round of bug fixes for both Window and Office including an update to the PrintNightmare fix. PrintNightmare is a serious security breach found in all versions of Windows and Windows Server back to Windows 7. The original ‘out of band’ patch was flawed, stopping some USB printers completely. A
The latest and serious Windows security bug is called ‘PrintNightmare’. We’ll explain what it is, how serious the bug could be, what you should do about it balancing the ‘known unknowns’. UPDATE: Almost as predictable as the sun rising … the PrintNightmare patch caused problems for some Windows users. The
Type the Fire 🔥 symbol or emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Fire 🔥 emoji has many names like Hot, Lit, Flame and Snapstreak How Fire 🔥 looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of how Fire 🔥 looks
Excel isn’t just for budgets and number crunching, you can use it for making lists and even organizing your love life! Lisa used Excel to find her True Love. She listed all her dates in Excel with details somewhat like this… Excel, combined with some personal rules. eventually led her
Let’s look at some of the new (or new-ish) stuff in Windows 11. Widgets (again), Voice typing (Speech to text), Meet Now, Teams and putting Android apps on the Windows desktop. See all the Office-Watch.com coverage of Windows 11 Widgets Widgets are returning or to put it another way, Microsoft
Windows 11 will work on low-power ARM chip computers, as well as the usual Intel systems. What does that mean for Microsoft Office? ARM based devices use less power than Intel chips, so they are more suitable for smaller devices. Microsoft needs to get Windows onto more portable devices and
Microsoft’s attempt at making a version of Outlook entirely as a web application is continuing but is now called just ‘Outlook’. Like we don’t have enough different ‘Outlook’ products already. Outlook is Microsoft’s name for all email/calendar/contacts software and services, often without clear distinction between each one. Project Monarch is
Office Watch readers have sent us timely reminders of some common scams targeting Office 365 and Microsoft customers. In both cases criminals impersonate Microsoft to trick people out of passwords or money. Microsoft call scams First up, a report from an anonymous reader … “ Somebody from Microsoft called and that we
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
Microsoft Office 365 is getting a new look for Windows 10 and the upcoming Windows 11. We have a video of the changes coming soon. On Windows 10 and 11, the Office apps get a ‘visual refresh’ to a more neutral, color scheme. Windows 11 apps get what Microsoft calls
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
New email notifications in Outlook can be quite distracting, especially in Windows. Here’s how to stop them or change the notices to make them less distracting and suit you better. Or just change the new email sound to something you prefer. The default email notification appears in the bottom right
There’s a major gap between Meet Now in Teams and Skype which means you’ll want to keep both. Also two other features in Skype but not Meet Now plus another reason that Microsoft doesn’t like talking about. Meet Now is Microsoft’s newer computer-to-computer calling and virtual conferencing service. It’s linked
Outlook 365 for Windows has a Meet Now button on the calendar views, why not elsewhere? Meet Now is Microsoft’s calling & meeting service. It’s officially part of Teams but is getting a life of its own for computer-to-computer calling and online meetings by individuals. It has features like screen
It was predicable that the Bezos divorce would lead to scam emails pretending to come from the former Mrs Bezos, now Mackenzie Scott. Mackenzie Scott is now the fourth richest woman in the world, following the divorce settlement with the Amazon founder. Though show might not hold that position for
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,
How to embed the necessary fonts into a Word document so everything is included that the receiver needs to view and edit it. You’ve made a document, it looks great and you send it off to someone or a print shop. They call complaining that it looks weird and claiming
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
At long last, a more efficient 64-bit version of OneDrive for Windows is available. OneDrive for Windows is the software that synchronizes your local computer with the cloud storage. There are also nifty features to save a lot of disk space (‘Free up Space) or ensure that a file is
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
There are ways to synchronize many personal OneDrive accounts to a single computer. They aren’t pretty but will workaround Microsoft’s limit on personal accounts. Microsoft’s OneDrive app will synchronize as many business/education accounts as you like but only one Personal account. That includes OneDrive accounts boosted to 1 Terabyte buying
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
Immersive Reader, already in Word, is coming to Outlook 365 for Windows. It’ll help people who have trouble reading on the screen or more generally. It’s part of Microsoft’s Accessibility drive to make Office documents available to as many people as possible. With Immersive Reader, an Outlook email is reformatted
