You might be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft Office isn’t so much software as a ‘trojan horse’ allowing hackers the opportunity to destroy, copy or ransom your valuable information. That’s overkill, of course, but each week there’s yet another new attack on millions of computers relying on Microsoft Office. If
Microsoft has previewed new Office features targeted at students and teaches, however many are good for the wider public too. For example, Dictation is coming to Word for Windows, Word Online, PowerPoint for Windows, Outlook Desktop, OneNote Windows 10, and OneNote Online with support for at least nine languages. Source:
So many patches for Microsoft Office and Windows in this month’s package of bug fixes. Few parts of Windows or Office aren’t patched this month, either directly or indirectly. According to Microsoft there’s ‘only’ 56 patched security holes in their products, this month alone. In reality there’s a lot more
When you update your Outlook rules with Exchange Server, why does it take so damn long and you have to wait? Each time you change your email processing rules, Outlook for Windows/Mac has to update the server. But it takes an unreasonably long time, even when there’s only a few
Here’s how to merge the travel details in your Tripit itinerary into your Outlook calendar. Just like our previous Tripit article, Tripit tips for Microsoft Outlook Tripit isn’t involved in this piece in any way. There’s no money or consideration in exchange for this article. Outlook software can link to
All the ‘End of 2017 news reviews’ reminded us of the great ‘Covfefe’ debate. President Trump made a tweet typing error, adding the previously unknown ‘covfefe’ to the language. It’s believed to be a mistype of ‘coverage’ though neither the President nor his staff would admit that. Word 2016 for
Tripit is an online system for managing your travel which includes live updates on flight information, seat assignments and other goodies. Here’s how you can make Outlook work better with Tripit, or similar systems. Peter finally tried Tripit after his friend, Phil, reminded him about the service for the umpteenth
Crossover, the Windows emulation for Mac computers, has released v17 which adds support for Office 2016 for Windows. With Crossover v17, the default compatibility has changed from Windows XP to Windows 7. That’s a big improvement and opens the way for a lot more recent programs to run like Quicken
How can you filter the Outlook contacts list to show just the Contact Groups or not? You can’t … amazingly there’s no direct or easy way to separate out the two types of contacts: individual or groups. Look along the Search tab for Contacts and there’s many options but not
Here’s how to convert a list of contacts into an Outlook Contact Group. Often, the need for a Contact Group isn’t obvious from the start. We realize that we’re sending emails to the same people over and over again and they really should be in a Contact Group. How to
There’s a simple little option buried in Outlook for Windows that will make your life a tiny bit easier. An Outlook Life Hack, if you will. We’ve added a bonus Outlook shortcut with a warning. When typing a list of email recipients you have to separate each with a semi-colon.
Microsoft’s mail hosting Outlook.com now comes with extras for Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers, as we foretold a while ago. In short, the ‘Premium’ $50/$20 a year Outlook.com is dead. The Premium benefits are now available to all Office 365 Home and Personal users. If you’re one of the
There are interface changes coming to Outlook for Windows and Mac which Microsoft quietly previewed recently. As usual, interface changes are accompanied by the same vague promises and jargon. Long standing Office users will find a lot of what follows to be tiresomely familiar. We’re told this change will ‘increase
Apple has introduced a new image and video format for iPhone and iPad, here’s how to handle it in Microsoft Office documents. .HEIC image files are made by default in some Apple devices with iOS 11. Microsoft Office and Windows don’t support the new format yet but there’s workarounds available
There’s a new Office security bug that can be exploited with just an email or calendar invite as well as the more common infected Office document. The new Office exploit uses the long-standing DDE system which allows Office documents to ‘talk’ to each other. Until told otherwise, best to assume
Who knows how long Outlook has been sending supposedly encrypted emails with a plain text readable version included? Microsoft isn’t telling their customers, presumably hoping we won’t notice. SEC Consult discovered a serious breach in Outlook’s email encryption system. Secure messages were being sent with a plain text readable version
Outlook for Mac is a disk space hog but the macOS has a way to recover some of that. Mac computers can have relatively small hard drives like 128GB or 265GB which Outlook 2016 for Mac can gobble up. Unfortunately, Outlook for Mac, even the latest Outlook 2016 doesn’t have
Here’s how to control what Outlook does when it gets a Read Receipt request with an incoming email. The setting is at File | Options | Mail | Tracking, just below where you set the options for outgoing Read Receipts. That’s Outlook for Windows, see below about Outlook for Mac.
A new bit of spam or phishing got past our multiple spam filters and into our Outlook 2016 Inbox. It’s a good example of what check in an unexpected message. The message uses the name and link from a real law firm but they’re not to blame. It appears to
We’re delighted to announce that our champion Office 2016 ebook has been updated, yet again, to include new and added features for the main Windows version of Microsoft Office. A bit like Office itself, Office 2016: the real startup guide is updated to keep pace with the improvements in Office
Microsoft has released another version of Office 2016 for Windows to be tested by insiders. This one is bought and installed from the Windows 10 Store. Naturally Office-Watch.com dived in to check it out. At the moment, only some Windows Insiders and users of Windows 10S can get Office in
Outlook for iOS and Android has a of plugin with support for animated GIF’s which is very strange indeed. Gfycat has released a plugin for Outlook iOS and Android that lets you choose animated GIF’s to insert into your messages. Source: Microsoft/Gfycat You can add animated GIF’s to emails from
By Mayurakshi Mohapatra Adding a picture to an Outlook contact is a good way to make the contact more identifiable. If you are bored seeing the initials or boring graphic next to the Outlook contact name, no worries, at all. Outlook lets you add, change or remove an existing picture
Here’s the latest hacker email we’ve received, a good example of a phishing and infected Word document email. We’ll use it as an example what to watch for and avoid. This message got through various anti-spam filters to arrive in the Office Watch managers Outlook 2016 Inbox. Which brings us
