Microsoft has made a major blunder with the July patches for Office. An update can crash Outlook for Windows entirely and the reason for the problem makes the bug especially humiliating for Microsoft. We’ll explain Microsoft’s blunder, what you can do if affected and how to avoid the buggy patch.
Read Aloud is the newer and better form of the old Speak feature from Word 2016-2010. It’s available in Word 365 and Word 2019. Read Aloud has more controls than the older Speak feature and it appears in more places within Word. The voice selection and settings in Windows are
The Excel team has joined the current ‘Cake’ meme with a new Cake() function in Excel. Hilarity ensues … Source: Twitter Ho ho, very funny, it is to laugh. Most people took the message in good spirit with one person implementing it in VBA That code really works. ChrW() returns
Microsoft continues to tinker update the Comments part of Word with yet more changes coming in Word 365. We’ll explain the new Comments view plus look over some of the Comments features from recent years. At last, users get some control over how comments appear. Not a lot of control
2020 will be remembered for many things (big sigh) but from a design viewpoint, it could be the Year of the Icon. Many of those graphics are available either in Office directly or imported from elsewhere – we’ll show you both. Everywhere you go there are signs reminding us of
Microsoft has added two genuinely new and interesting video meeting options to Teams. Together mode and Dynamic View plus some useful video filters. Both are innovative ways to display a large number of people in a virtual meeting. Having been caught napping by a combination of Coronavirus and Zoom, Microsoft
The Office.com home page is being updated or rather rearranged. The changed page has been described as ‘beautiful’ and ‘great’. The changes are gradually rolling out to enterprise Office 365 customers, presumably consumer Office 365 Home/Personal users will see the change a little later. The current Office.com page looks like
Despite fair warnings, Microsoft has allowed an old Excel format .SLK to get past their email security and infect Excel for Windows computers. As reported by Avanan, criminals have found a way to bypass the email security for Office 365 hosted mailboxes (possibly Outlook.com as well), allowing an infected email
How to quickly fix display problems in Microsoft Office. When Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook don’t show up on the screen correctly. It doesn’t happen often but occasionally Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook open but as all grey. Clicking around the screen displays just a ribbon or menu but not
Additions and changes to Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel etc) are often not explained properly beyond a short paragraph. Then there are cases where even that explanation is a mystery. We’re obliged to Hannah J. from Munich for asking about this item on the Microsoft site from April 2019 which we
Excel for iPhone and Android smartphones have a useful extension of Excel Tables called Cards. It’s a better way to view tables on a smaller screen with larger text and easier editing. Instead of scrolling right/left on the small screen, all the info for a single table row can be
Outlook can record appointments in the Calendar but it can also record ‘recurring’ appointments for things that happen on a regular schedule. We’ll show you how to make a repeating appointment and suggest some ways it can be used that might not be immediately obvious. Repeating Appointments 101 To make
Headline your next document with cats! Looking for something really different to headline your next document or presentation – why not use ‘Neko Font’ the font made out of cats. Strictly this isn’t a font you can download, instead you type text into a web page, choose the size (Large,
Microsoft’s Surface Earbuds are out now and have some extras for Word, Outlook and PowerPoint users. When we look past the hype there’s more than a few special conditions to keep in mind. Surface Earbuds have been some time coming, we first mentioned them about nine months ago. Now they
Word for iPhone now has a reading mode … at long last there’s a way to look through a document without the keyboard and other editing tools getting in the way. When a document is opened, it’s in read mode. No pesky keyboard or menus. The top line has Edit,
Word can be used to fill in and make an ICE or In Case of Emergency card. Our newsletter subscribers can download the Word document, ready to fill in and use. ICE cards are known to paramedics and emergency rooms the world over. An unconscious or uncommunicative patient is searched
Microsoft now lets you add your own virtual background image for Teams video calls. Before this change, there was a simple hack to add your own image as a virtual background. Microsoft rushed to add virtual backgrounds to Teams video in response to the popularity of Zoom. A major problem
Microsoft’s Money in Excel is worth looking at even if you don’t want to use it. There are some useful features and formula tricks you can use in your own workbooks. Group Columns Grouping columns or rows is normally for bringing together lists rows or columns. Grouping days into a
Apple is switching their Mac computers from Intel to their own in-house chipsets known as ‘Apple Silicon’. A change in CPU is a big deal and raises questions about compatibility with Microsoft Office. The change from Intel to Apple CPU’s has been expected for some time and will take years
Animated GIF support is coming (finally!) to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. We discovered the new feature in a new Insiders build, Microsoft hasn’t announced anything. Here’s an animated GIF playing in Word 365. Paste or Insert an animated GIF now has play/pause buttons included (bottom left corner). The animation
Microsoft has expanded Teams to allow personal groups like families, clubs and groups to use the service. Within Teams it’s possible to text chat, save and edit documents, share calendars and lists. A family could have a grocery list to which anyone can add items before the next supermarket run.
Money in Excel shows up on the Home tab once you’ve opened the Microsoft template. Here’s how to remove its button from the ribbon or completely remove the add-in from Excel. As soon as you open and use Money in Excel, it adds itself to the Home tab on the
Microsoft has gone public with their Money Excel template to import and manage financial transactions from bank accounts. There are some undocumented tricks available and an important security recommendation that Microsoft overlooks. Money in Excel can import transaction details (US bank accounts only) and show current balances. And convert that
It’s hard enough for people to keep straight what is the latest version of Microsoft Office without some web sites getting it horribly wrong. The current Microsoft Office products are confusing, no doubt about it. Microsoft keeps changing their product names, policies and features. Microsoft’s ‘fixed’ support policy is written
