A rare factual error in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that, amazingly, is related to Microsoft Word. In an item about The White House Calligrapher, Oliver said the job was easy because there’s already a font with the job title in Microsoft Word. And he shows a Word for
Last week we got a peek at the current White House notepaper and could not resist trying to make our own in Microsoft Word. White House notepaper in the President’s hands – 21 Feb 2018 It’s a simple, classic look that anyone can use and adapt to their needs. We’re
Here’s a manual method of replacing text with filler or anonymous words in Microsoft Word Use this when you need help with a Word document formatting problem but can’t share the troublesome .docx because it contains confidential information. Our head honcho, Peter Deegan, had this problem himself. A friend asked
A follow up on the story of the Ghanian teacher who has to draw Microsoft Word on his blackboard to teach the program. He’s Richard Appiah Akoto a 33 year old teacher at Betenase M/A Junior High School in the town of Sekyedomase in central Ghana. A place so obscure,
Microsoft has an unstated policy of degrading perpetual licence Office in favor of the annual payments for Office 365. This is happening in lots of little steps. Nothing major to alienate customers but enough incremental changes to shift the balance in favor of annual Office 365 payments. It’s a form
Think learning Office is hard? Spare a thought for this teacher in Ghana who teaches Word without a computer. He draws Word on a blackboard to teach the program. Source: Ghafla.com It’s an amazing piece of work. Yes, it’s pre-ribbon Microsoft Office, Office 2003 or before. The whole story would
Many of the Office 2019 assumptions and rumors don’t account for the changed business model at Microsoft. Redmond’s dirty little secret is they’d prefer not selling Office 2019 at all. Office 2019 is the ‘perpetual licence’, single payment, fixed feature version of Microsoft Office. Microsoft will release it later this
A new report confirms what most Microsoft Office customers know; there’s more security patches in Microsoft products, despite years of promises. Not just the latest Word, Excel and Powerpoint but even new products like the Edge browser are increasingly vulnerable. An Avecto report shows 87 vulnerabilities in 2017 – a
The Corel patent dispute raises the interesting question, can other developers use the Ribbon interface in their own products? The answer isn’t clear. There was a clear path to follow but Microsoft has managed to confuse the issue. The Ribbon with it’s tabs, buttons, galleries, collapsing view as the window
Here’s how to share Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel or PowerPoint) for viewing or editing via Dropbox. Document collaboration works a little differently in Dropbox compared to OneDrive. There are different methods and limitation for sharing on Dropbox. We’ve already shown how to install Dropbox, enabled the Microsoft Office Online
Dropbox Badge is their document collaboration option that provides Dropbox specific features inside Microsoft Office programs, It works with a refreshingly wide range of Office version. Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Windows and Macintosh. Office 2007 to 2016 for Windows. Office 2011 and 2016 for Mac. It only works
Just in time for Valentine’s Day <g>, Microsoft has released yet another set of patches for security holes in their products. There’s about 55 patches including a particularly nasty Outlook bug and problems with Microsoft new ‘safer’ Edge browser. Microsoft has or will push these fixes out through Windows/Microsoft update.
Based on past experience, Microsoft may offer a ‘free upgrade’ from Office 2016 to Office 2019. Here’s how you might be able to take advantage and get two Office licenses for two computers. An interesting idea from Office Watch regular ‘Ron S.’. All this makes some assumptions, so it’s NOT confirmed,
If you’re thinking of buying the upcoming Office 2019, here’s a possible money saving trick to consider. Another interesting idea from Office Watch regular ‘Ron S.’. Office 2019 is the next ‘perpetual licence’ fixed feature version of Microsoft Office. Microsoft will release it later this year. If you’re not interested in
A jury has found Corel guilty of six patent violations in it’s WordPerfect and QuattroPro products which have breached Microsoft Office related patents. Yes, WordPerfect and QuattroPro are still out there! We were surprised too. The patents relate to the Office interface like the ribbon. In WordPerfect, Corel even goes
BitGlass and Cylance have found some new ransomware called Shurl0cker that managed to fool both Google and Microsoft’s scans to arrive on their customers cloud storage. According to the researchers: “Two well-known cloud platforms with built-in malware protection, Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365, failed to identify the ransomware. In
“Why Microsoft Office is a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush Saga” says one of our favorite podcasters, Tim Hartford. Is he right? Hartford isn’t any random blogger. He’s a respected writer with a regular column in The Economist, a series of wonderfully readable books and a great radio program/podcast,
A small detail in recent Office 2016 previews is a clue to future branding of Microsoft Office. The revised ‘splash’ screen has the line ‘Office 365’ which is new. A small detail but it seems to indicate Microsoft is moving towards separating the branding of the perpetual licence Office (the
Dropbox stores not just your current documents but past versions too. Let’s drill down and see how to dump your files in the Dropbox and what does Dropbox do to make life easy? I have created a folder in my Dropbox named “Projects”. It contains some of my work assignments
If you’re browsing your Dropbox account at their web site, select a document then look at the Open menu for options. Copy to Paper – Paper is Dropbox’s own online collaboration tool. Open in Word 2016 – the Dropbox site has detected the presence of Office 2016 on the computer.
Adding Dropbox to your Word Online, Excel Online or PowerPoint Online place list saves some extra steps. Then you can quickly open, create, modify and saves files to your Dropbox. To add Dropbox to Office Online: Go to OfficeOnline.com (https://www.office.com/), open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint Online. Click Add a place, under ‘Open
Dropbox has integration direct into Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows It’s best to install the Dropbox app (https://www.dropbox.com/install) on your devices. Of course, you can always access the Dropbox website https://www.dropbox.com from any laptop, computer or smartphones and tablets. Once Dropbox is installed on your desktop, you’ll notice a new
The latest Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneDrive apps for iPhone and iPad have some genuinely good and useful changes. iPad users are the main beneficiaries of the changes. If you push past the usual Redmond buzzwords ‘collaboration’, ‘co-authoring’, ‘create’, ‘experience’, ‘delight’, ‘productivity’, ‘from the ground up’ and the ever present
Microsoft has announced better Hindi, Bengali (Bangla) and Tamil online translation using AI enhancements in Microsoft Office, Bing and other online services. The company has dropped their latest buzzwords like “artificial intelligence” and “deep neural networks” but what does it really mean for Microsoft’s customers? Our headline translated into Hindi,
