Google has updated their Drive app to support preview of Microsoft Office documents with password encryption. Here’s how it works online and in the Google Drive app. In early 2017 the browser-based part of Google Drive let you preview password protected Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Only preview of Office
Patch Tuesday included the usual bug fixes for more security holes in Microsoft Office plus an important Adobe PDF reader update. The Microsoft Office updates should be applied automatically but the Adobe Reader might need a manual update, instructions below. Windows bug fixes are available for Windows 10, 8.1 and
Here’s a list of the non-security aka bug fix updates to Office 2016 for Windows, released for July 2018. These updates should come to you automatically via Microsoft Update or you can patch individually from the links provided. Here’s Microsoft’s list with their explanation of each update. Office 2016 Excel
Part of the July 2018 updates to Office is a change to the Segoe UI emoji font but Microsoft is keeping the details a mystery. Segoe UI emoji is a Microsoft Office font which includes many standard Emoji characters though the emoji don’t look the same across different devices or
Just a few non-security or bug fix updates for Office 2013 for Windows and Office 2010 for Windows. These updates should come to you automatically via Microsoft Update or you can patch individually from the links provided. Here’s Microsoft’s list with their explanation of each update. Office 2013 Excel 2013
A clever use of Excel is at the end of a paperless class attendance system used by a Filipino teacher. Michael Angelo posted on Facebook how he’s switched to a paperless system for his classes. The same system can be used for classes, one-off events or even to track physical
How to type the degree symbol (Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, latitude, longitude) into Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Degree Symbol codes Decimal: 176 Hex: 00B0 Web: ° ° ° Word The degree symbol ° has an inbuilt shortcut in Word. Ctrl + @ or Ctrl + Shift + 2 followed by
A new Office ‘Garage’ option is ‘Student Tools’ an extra ribbon featuring the tools Microsoft thinks are most appropriate for students. It’s only available to students in USA, Australia or New Zealand for Office 365 for Windows or Office 2016 ProPlus. Word Student Tool Garage is where Microsoft tries out
A source of envy for Windows users has been the quick preview feature on Mac computers. That envy has gone now that there’s two apps that add the same feature to Windows 10. Seer and QuickLook both do the same thing and while they are useful, both lack an important
Office Online is a slimmed down version of Word for Windows or Mac. What’s possible in a browser interface is impressive from a technical point of view but it will never compete with Word for Windows or even Word for Mac. Anyone familiar with Office for Mac or Windows should
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote are always available for you, even if the main Office for Window/Mac are broken or missing. Office Online is the alternative that you have as a standby when regular Office fails or isn’t available. As long as you have a browser and decent Internet connection,
A private April 2018 Gartner report confirms what Office-Watch.com has been saying for years. Microsoft is forcing customers away from perpetual licence/one-off software purchases and into software rental like Office 365. As reported by Gregg Keizer at Computerworld, Microsoft will continue ‘encouraging’ customer to annual fees by limiting access to
While North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, was busy in Singapore, his government hackers were busy with new malware called TypeFrame and delivered by, you guessed it, a Microsoft Word document. Typeframe has eleven different elements bundled with a Word document. As usual, the hackers send the document and try
The ASUS Zenbook Pro series comes with a snazzy touchpad which doubles as an extension toolbar for Microsoft Office. Source: ASUS Instead of a blank touchpad, it’s a small high-res touchscreen that can display icons or even full videos (play Lawrence of Arabia on a tiny, tiny screen!). For Microsoft
Microsoft has announced that the community support forums for Office 2013 and Office 2010 are ending next month, July 2018. The Community Support Forum are online forums where Microsoft staff and volunteers answer questions from Microsoft customers. From July 2018 Microsoft won’t be responding to queries in these forums: Office
Office 2011 for Mac is just one of many programs that won’t work at all on the upcoming MacOS release ‘Mojave’. That’s not a surprise for anyone who follows Apple’s policy announcements. Many years ago, Apple warned that they’d eventually stop supporting 32-bit programs with 64-bit applications becoming the required
Microsoft has announced that a perpetual licence version of Office for Mac will be released later this year. Office 2019 for Mac will come out alongside Office 2019 for Windows. Both are for non-subscriber / perpetual licence customers only. Anyone with Office 365 ‘subscription’ doesn’t need to bother with these
For the first time in a decade, Microsoft is making substantial changes to the Office ribbon interface. But not to worry, the changes don’t appear to be enough to put anyone off Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. The existing ribbon is retained, that’s an important point that’s not emphasized enough
Modern Excel can grab information from multiple files in a single folder. Just open the worksheet, refresh the query and it’s up to date! This article is a condensed version of just one chapter in Real Time Excel – the new 2nd edition has a lot more detail and example
Criminal have found another way to (mis)use Microsoft Office and infect computers using the latest ‘zero-day’ hack. You may know that Adobe’s Flash was a popular add-in for web pages to display multi-media content. But Flash was very insecure and unstable so it’s been mostly replaced with other secure systems.
As usual, Microsoft has released non-security updates and bug fixes for Office 2016 and Office 2013 on the first Tuesday of the month. A few caught our eye: Late last year, Microsoft was caught out leaving a horribly vulnerable Equation Editor in Office for 17 years. A new patch restores
Two Indian banks clamped down use of unlicensed Microsoft Office, leaving staff to use calculators or open-source alternative spreadsheets. Mid-Day.com reported that Bank of India and Saraswat Bank had some licenses for Microsoft Office but not enough for all the computers the bank had allocated to staff. Branches were instructed
Both Windows and Office send an astonishing amount of data from your computer to Microsoft. Here’s how to see what’s being sent. The Diagnostic Data Viewer shows, as it happens, what your computer is sending to Microsoft. The tool does NOT give you the choice to not send your private
Later this year, you’ll be able to buy an Office 365 annual ‘subscription direct from the App Store on a Mac. Buying through the App Store will be a bad move for any Mac users. That was one of the lesser noticed announcements at Apple’s WWDC 2018 conference. The whole App
