Pantone has announced its Color of the Year for 2020 here’s how to get it in Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc. The color of 2020 is … Classic Blue Source: Pantone As usual what’s more amazing than the color is the description from the ‘Pantone Institute’. Classic
At last! The clutter of right-hand panes in Microsoft Word is ending and we’re getting tabbed panes. Very welcome news for laptop users with less screen real estate. According to Microsoft: “ Now you can switch between multiple panes using a tab UI on the right hand side of the
Sometimes we want to change the margins around a Word document, either to change the way the page looks, or to get the text to fit onto the page. To do this, go to Layout > Margins or use the Ruler to drag the margins. There are several default options
Yet again, a bad deal for Office 365 is being offered on Amazon and it’s even worse than last time. In March there was an offer on Amazon for Office 365 Home (retail $99.99) plus an Amazon gift card $50 for a total of $149 – a ‘massive’ saving of
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
Microsoft is ending their Delve blog service starting later this month. It’s being done with little notice and in a very round-about way. Delve blogs aren’t widely used and their end has been anticipated by some network admins. Even so, Microsoft has badly handled the announcement. Instead of a Microsoft
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
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
‘Tis the season for savings on Office 2019 so we’ll keep an eye on price discounts on Office 2019 bundles (Home and Student, Home and Business, Professional). What price to pay and what NOT to pay. Below is a guide to whether a price for Office 2019 is a good
‘Tis the Black Friday season for savings on Office 365 so we’ll keep an eye on price discounts on Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal in the USA, UK and Australia. It’s a great time to save on extending or renewing an Office 365 subscription. Below is a guide
I ♥ or I Love signs or logos can be made in Word or PowerPoint to liven up a document or presentation. We’ll show how to make something similar to the famous and much copied logo. The official ‘I ♥ NY’ logo complete with registered trademark. The original ‘I Love
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
Oh what a tangled web Microsoft weaves …. a patch for Office has caused another bug in all versions of Access (365, 2019 back to 2010). The bug is the latest in a series of blunders for Office updates. It’ll take until next month for all customers to get a
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
The future of OneNote involves more connections to other services like Teams, Tasks and Todo. New features made possible by a big effort to bring OneNote code back to a single base. OneNote default installed OneNote 2016 for Windows will rejoin the Office 365 suite from early 2020. It will
A wonderfully independent article in the Washington Post reveals a big problem with the sale of fake and pirated products on Amazon. Our articles on fake Microsoft Office products is just a tiny part of a bigger problem. The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon
The latest update to Windows 10 is out now and so is our companion book Windows 10 November 2019 for Microsoft Office users. Somewhat chastened by past troubles, the November 2019 update is being deployed in a much more cautious way. Microsoft is giving customers a choice about when to
PowerPoint has options for hiding slides and also hide & reveal text or content within slides. We have looked previously at hiding things in Word and Excel, and PowerPoint also allows you to hide things, although the approach is a little different. The most common reason to want to hide
If you have a slide that you want to keep in your PowerPoint deck but don’t want to show them in a presentation, you can hide those slides. Go to the strip of slide thumbnails down the side of your project and select the slide you want to hide. You
OneNote for Windows has a better future after some reverse-course announcements from Microsoft. OneNote desktop program gets extended life and a promotion. The desktop and app versions merging into a single codebase. We’ll also explain the strange case of two OneNote for Windows. The announcements amount to a 180° reversal
The first sign that OneNote 2016 is back from a slow death is the announcement of the first new feature in well over a year. OneNote 2016 is getting a Dark Mode just like the Mac and Apple apps. OneNote dark mode will be an option in OneNote 2016 for
Buying and using a computer keyboard from Microsoft is very annoying, based on what we’ve heard from Office Watch readers. Choosing a Microsoft keyboard is harder than necessary and finding help, even harder. Microsoft’s keyboard range is especially bad for not properly explaining all the features of the products, apparently
Word is very clever dealing with Hidden text, perhaps a bit too clever at times. Here’s some tricks for positioning and formatting with Hidden text. Students quiz (left) and Teachers version (right) from the same document. The answer text is hidden in the student version but there’s still space for
In Wales, all teachers and their students can get Office 365 free, instead of about ₤60, thanks to an initiative of the Welsh government. It’s worth checking what access to the full Office suite your school, college or university kids might have. The Welsh government has arranged this as part
