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,
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
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
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
There’s joy and celebrations in the streets of Maine as their Oxford Comma dispute is settled. Even Microsoft Word approves the new law! The missing comma only cost $5 million plus legal fees. A quick follow up to our 2017 story about a legal dispute around the lack of an
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
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,
After a seven month testing period, Microsoft Office desktop programs are available for Windows 10, especially Windows 10 S users via the Microsoft Store. Until now, the cheaper Windows 10 S machines could only run the ‘Mobile’ or UWP apps not the full-featured Office desktop programs. Now Word 2016, Excel
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:
While Microsoft is busy patching for the Spectre/Meltdown chip flaws there’s another serious and more easily abused security flaw in Word. It’s fairly simple and not yet detected by any of the anti-virus programs. It’s called ‘SubDoc’ and was discovered by Rhino Security Labs who have gone to the extent
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
Microsoft’s Word Comments feature has popped up in the news again over the break, this time to embarrass Milo Yiannopoulos, a former Brietbart commentator. Mr Yiannopoulos is in a legal battle with his publisher over a proposed book and some of the court papers are now public. What’s catching attention
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
Microsoft has finally admitted what was obvious to everyone else, that the DDE part of Office is dangerous and should be disabled. The latest patches have finally provided a way to disable the DDE feature in Office, either completely or in part. Something that’s looooong overdue. Sidebar There are two
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
