A new Windows 10 update includes fixes for some Office related bugs for Word, Excel and Outlook. The patch is called KB4568831 released July 31, 2020 . It’s for the latest Windows 10 May 2020 release (aka ‘2004’ or ‘Build 19041.423’). It’s a large update which fixes many different Windows
Getting a refund on an Office 365 /Microsoft 365 plan isn’t easy but can be possible depending on the reason for cancellation and your local consumer laws. There’s a lot of misleading or out-of-date information on the web, including details from Microsoft itself. Here’s the hard information we’ve been able
Many people talk about what’s possible in getting a refund of Microsoft 365 plan but it’s mostly copied from other social media or forums and some completely wrong. We’ve gone looking for Microsoft’s real rules for cancelling and refunding a ‘subscription’ they are quite different from what’s commonly ‘known’. Zombie
Microsoft Office 2010 ends support later this year but there’s no need to panic. Here’s what to do, when to change from Office 2010 and what to replace it. Office 2010 countdown [ycd_countdown id=”31774″][/ycd_countdown] Office 2010 ends support on Tuesday, 13 October 2020 All the Office 2010 programs will keep
Customers trying to cancel their recent Microsoft 365 plan might see a totally bogus message which wrongly claims that a cancel and refund isn’t possible. A thread on Microsoft ‘Answers’ includes a web page image from a customer trying to cancel Microsoft 365 Family. Microsoft had auto-renewed the plan but
Office-Watch.com is always on the lookout for ways to save money on buying Microsoft Office. Here’s a summary of the tips we’ve discovered over the years. Microsoft 365 Family (with six users) is the main seller and you can buy/renew it for less than the official price. Formerly Office 365
How to make a computer setup suitable for the elderly or infirm. Something that’s simple ‘turn on and it’ll work’ and needs little or no action by the recipient or their carers. Bill Chubb wrote to us with his solution for keeping in touch with his wife in a nursing
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
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
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
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
If you want a list of numbered items using only odd or even numbers; how do you do that? Are you thinking of Word’s automatic numbering feature? The answer is “Yes” if you add little Word trickery. What exactly you need to do is use the Numbering features but leave
Some useful new features have now been rolled out to the public versions of Microsoft 365 (Office 365) for May 2020. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook all have improvements. Two we’ve already told you about, the other is new. Stock Images, Cutout People and Stickers Or what Microsoft calls “New
Some more tricks for improving or fixing rounded corner boxes in Office. Change the corner angle or roundness even to a stadium shape. Alter the border line a little or a lot. Make a Word text box with rounded corners explains the basics of making the rectangular box into something
‘Tell me’ help box is now in Microsoft/Office 365 for Mac as a way to find features on the ribbon. However it continues to have the same limitations that are in the Windows version. Look for the lightbulb and ‘Tell me’ box beside the ribbon tabs. Type in a phrase
At long last, Microsoft and VMWare have decided to ‘play nice’ and allow their virtual machine products to run on Windows at the same time. Until now, Windows users wanting virtual machines had to choose between Hyper/V (comes with higher end Windows 10) or Vmware Workstation. You could not run
We continue our look at the options for the ‘Ken Burns Effect’ in PowerPoint by combining the pan and zoom animation features into a complete effect. It adds interest and movement to a still image with two separate animation effects available, in part, in PowerPoint. Ken Burns Effect in PowerPointThe
One of our readers just saved over 20% on her Microsoft 365 renewal using one of Microsoft’s own products – Outlook! Julia A. a long-time Office-Watch.com reader took our advice about early renewal of Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365). She just bought another year of Microsoft 365 from a retailer
Not sure when your Microsoft 365/Office 365 plan expires? Go to https://www.office.com/ login with the Microsoft account linked to your Office 365/Microsoft 365 plan. Look for the icon at top right, it looks different for each person and might be your initials. Choose ‘My Account’. Then ‘Services & Subscriptions’ on
The Drawing Tools in Word 365 is now larger with separate tools like Lasso and Eraser now in a single combined gallery. There are other changes and new limitations on the Drawing Tools gallery, some of them undocumented. Compare that to the old Draw tab where the Lasso, Eraser and
The ‘moving picture’ or Ken Burns effect can be done in PowerPoint for Windows or Mac. It converts a still image into a slowly moving ‘pan and zoom’ over the photo.. There are several ways to apply a ‘Ken Burns effect’ which we’ll explain starting with a very simple option
It’s now possible to open two Word docs or PowerPoint decks side-by-side on an iPad. iOS has multiple window or side-by-side support already, but Word and PowerPoint didn’t allow more than one document open at a time. That meant you could have a Word document open alongside another app but
Elon Musk and partner have named their child X Æ A-12 (no kidding) how do you type Æ in Microsoft Word and Office generally. The child’s name doesn’t trigger any spelling or grammar errors in Word. No squiggly lines. What is Æ ? Æ or æ is a a-e ligature
Just like the Melissa virus, looking back to the Love Bug virus of May 2000 shows how much has changed and how much has remained the same. Much the same story as the Melissa virus that came out a few months before. Love Bug or I Love You was a
