Finding the right stock or index among the tens of thousands available in Excel’s Stock data type isn’t always easy. Here’s some stock search tips that might help with some advice about a changing situation. Stock data type is available in Excel 365 for Windows and coming to Excel 365 for Mac (currently only Insiders). […]
Great news for Mac Office 365 users, the Stock and Geography data types in Excel 365 for Windows have started rolling out to Excel 365 for Mac. At the moment it’s only Excel 365 for Mac, Fast Insiders v16.22 build 190112 or later. It means it’s coming to Slow Insiders and Office 365 customers generally […]
An astonishingly simple security breach in Microsoft Office has finally been patched two months after Microsoft confirmed the problem. The unanswered question, why did it take so long to discover it? Mimecast.com discovered the ActiveX memory leak back in November 2018 and told Microsoft. Two months later Microsoft fixed the problem in their January 2019 […]
Excel can display dates in many different formats including Japanese Imperial Era. You don’t need the Japanese version of Excel. Office-Watch.com shows how to display an Era date and how Excel knows which Era to use. You don’t ‘convert’ a date from western format to Japanese Era. Like any date in Excel, just change the […]
Feature updates for Microsoft Office 2010 have been withdrawn but Redmond won’t tell customers why, beyond the usual vague platitudes. The KB4032217, KB4461627, KB4032225, and KB4461616 updates for Office 2010 released 2 January 2019 were withdrawn after a few days after complaints. Microsoft won’t admit what the problem is beyond saying customers “may experience difficulties in Microsoft Excel or […]
