Look inside the changes Microsoft made to the Office VBA blocking / Mark of the Web documentation More VBA macro blocks coming to Office, detailsMicrosoft reverses Office macro blocks without telling customersBlocking Office VBA macros resumes but why? Which made us wonder what’s changed in the documentation. Surely, it’s a big revision to have caused […]
Microsoft has resumed rollout of their new Office macro blocking system after the feature was mysteriously suspended a few weeks ago. But why? Microsoft hasn’t explained why they stopped the new macro blocks and their reason for restoring the feature is both incomplete and nonsensical. The new system totally blocks Office documents with macros and […]
The inverted or Spanish exclamation mark ¡ is available in Microsoft Word, regardless of language setting. There’s even an in-built shortcut. ¡ is most commonly used in Spanish for the start of an exclaiming sentence. As far back as the 1660’s there have been attempts to introduce ¡ inverted exclamation to denote irony. Despite its […]
One of the many small, but annoying, limitations in Office for Mac is the Insert Symbol feature. In Word for Windows it’s quite developed with a list of recently used characters: Or open up the main dialog to scroll through many more symbols or jump to exactly the one you want. But Word for Mac […]
Microsoft Word’s collaboration features are changing, again, with Track Changes cards appearing for each edit in a document with a preview option in Word 365 for Windows. Track Changes cards are already in the browser-based version of Word. They are now coming to Word 365 for Windows and Mac. With Track Changes on, any edits […]
