Microsoft is expanding their public testing program for Office Insiders and adding options to accept changes quickly or slowly. Microsoft ‘Insiders’ programs let the public become testers of upcoming software with the risks that come with using somewhat untested programs. Strange as it may seem to many, there are people who are prepared to spend […]
A quick look at importing data into Excel. Excel has sooo many ways to import information into a worksheet. Go to Data | Get External Data to see the selection. There are options to grab information from other databases, cloud services, web page tables etc in a variety of ways. The import can be ‘once […]
When typing or importing data into Excel, the program tries to set the cell type (number, date etc) based on simple rules. This is the default ‘General’ cell format at work. But Excel’s guesses aren’t always right. We humans insist on typing or importing data that doesn’t comply with Microsoft’s expectations. To put it another […]
Outlook.com users might strike a problem connecting with Outlook for Windows or Mac which looks like a password problem but isn’t. Outlook.com may put a security block on your account. Most likely this happens if you login from a different location or country. To protect you, Outlook.com will restore the account only when a one-time […]
Microsoft has released a 30 second ad to promote the Surface 4 computer and denigrate the iPad. The video makes some good points about Surface’s ability to run full Office for Windows and the important external ports for USB and video. It boasts that the Surface has a keyboard just as the iPad Pro now […]
