The Office apps for Android are getting some interesting new features. Excel for Android has better sort and filtering. Galaxy Watch can now link to the Outlook app. At first for preview ‘Insiders’ and later to the publicly available Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook apps. Here’s Microsoft announcement of the new features with their images: […]
Just one of the many tricks to get people to giveaway their password is a bogus ‘system delay’ email, supposedly from your network administrators. The fake login page is given extra credibility being hosted on a Microsoft server! It starts with a fake message from the ‘Excel Team’ saying you can’t ‘Open Excel or any […]
Excel is getting a clever new way to quickly analyse your worksheets and pull out useful ideas or insights to quickly make PivotTables, PivotCharts and Charts. It’s now available in Excel 365 for Windows and Mac, Insiders and will eventually make it to public releases. It’s now called ‘Ideas’, previously known as ‘Insights’ (a more […]
Microsoft is touting Application Guard as a defence against Office 365 macro viruses. What is it and will it truly prevent viruses in Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents? Application Guard is already in the Edge browser and Microsoft has announced that it will be extended into Office 365 sometime in early 2020. They’ve not said […]
Here’s how to block .IQY web queries in Excel that are being used to infect machines with Buran ransomware. Yet again, a mostly forgotten part of Office is being used by hackers to get inside computers and networks. Suspicious Link (great name) found this nasty in an email. It pretends to be a forwarded message […]
