Recent investigations have revealed some worrying truths about the risks in opening OneNote notebooks, a surprising fact about .one files, some bad news and good news. Criminals are increasingly sending out nasty OneNote .one files in emails, taking advantage of another Microsoft security ‘blind spot’. OneNote Embedded File Abuse from Nicholas Dhaeyer at NVISO Labs […]
The ‘speech to text’ Dictation feature is now in OneNote for Mac. Look on the far-right of the Home tab for the Dictate button. Click on it to make the little Dictation toolbar appear. Our book Dictation and Read Aloud in Office explains Dictation and other Office speech features from the beginning and in detail […]
No cloud service is perfect, no matter what the company says. Here’s what you must do to protect yourself from breakdown of your OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams or Microsoft 365 cloud storage. Microsoft pushes use of OneDrive to store all your documents and images. That suits Microsoft’s strategy but isn’t necessarily a good thing for customers. […]
Insert the Exploding Head 🤯 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. How Exploding Head 🤯 emoji looks Windows only has Exploding Head 🤯 in the Segoe UI Emoji font, either color or black. To me the black version looks more like a bowl than […]
The Transcribe option in OneNote for Windows lets you get a “speech to text” written transcript of either a live recording or an already saved audio file. It’s an extension of the existing Transcribe feature in Word on the web (in a browser) and works the same way. That’s not entirely a good thing because […]
