Microsoft is boasting about the coming ‘offline support’ for the new Outlook but a look at the detail shows its very limited offline access. The current Outlook desktop apps for Windows and Mac have excellent offline support, meaning you can work on your mail, calendar, contacts even when there’s slow or no Internet access. The […]
Safe Mode is a special way for Office apps to run when things aren’t working properly. Here’s how to use Safe Mode, if Office doesn’t offer it automatically, and what Safe Mode does differently. Safe Mode is useful in situations where you cannot open files in normal mode because the app is crashing, or you […]
Microsoft has fixed a bug in Outlook for Windows which wrongly popped up the notice “Outlook closed while you had items open. Reopen those items from your last session?” When Outlook closes with items open (email, appointment etc.), it should offer to reopen those items when Outlook next starts. The message looks like this: Outlook […]
Use a hidden registry hack to protect your privacy by reducing the amount of private info Microsoft Office apps send to Microsoft. Dr Aleksandar Milenkoski, working for the German Federal Office for Information Security, has produced a report on what information Microsoft Office software sends back to the company. That’s information about when and how Office […]
How to insert the Stethoscope 🩺 symbol/emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Trivia: the stethoscope was invented by a Frenchman who was embarrassed putting his ear upon a lady’s chest to hear her heartbeats. His original was a simple tube, not the dual-ear device we […]
