The city council of Barcelona, Spain has decided to ditch Microsoft Office and eventually Windows in favor of open source alternatives. As a local commissioner put it “the presence of the IT giant Bill Gates in municipal computers will be progressively reduced by the end of this municipal term of
Microsoft is releasing a new version of Windows 10 that works with ARM chips instead of the usual Intel processors. That’s a major change which affects Office users lured by the promises of ‘Always Connected’ devices. Which MS Office should you choose with these new machines, if any? Always Connected
Making your first PivotTable can be scary so here’s a quick ‘How to’ to get you started and past the scary bit. It’s a PivotTable starter article for anyone who hasn’t dived into PivotTables already and before we start with the tricks and tips for this important part of Excel.
Here’s how to send one or all emails from Outlook for Windows/Mac with a Read Receipt. On the Outlook for Windows ribbon | Options tab there’s a ‘Request a Read Receipt’ option. Outlook for Mac Read Receipt Outlook for Mac it’s also on the Options tab Read and Delivery receipts
Microsoft has announced a new version of Office for release in the second half of next year. Here’s what we know and what we don’t about the ‘year away’ Microsoft Office. One-time or perpetual licence only This Office bundle is for one-time or perpetual licence buyers of Office only. People
Matt Nelson at Specter Ops has found a new way for hackers to use Excel to access your computer. Even disabling VBA won’t fix this security hole. It uses a technique called ‘Lateral Movement‘ within Microsoft’s DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model). Matt explains it all in great detail but for
Yet again, Microsoft sent customers a faulty Office update which needs fixing. This time it’s Office 2016 perpetual licence customers affected or, strictly speaking, anyone who has installed Office from a .msi file instead of ‘Click to Run’. Click to Run is the standard option for Office 365 subscribers,. The
Here’s how to delete whole pages or rearrange the page order from a PDF document without paying for PDF editing software. A lot of people never need PDF editing software. Making PDF’s is easy using Microsoft Office or the ‘Print to PDF’ feature in Windows. Simple editing, like deleting pages
Why are there no Windows 10 Live Tiles that work with Microsoft Outlook? Why doesn’t Windows ‘play nice’ with Outlook, when they are made by the same company? Live Tiles are those animated blocks on the Start Menu which, in theory, can display latest messages, contacts and calendar items. The
Word 2013 has a new non-security update for our Dutch friends … but what it does is a mystery. In typical Microsoft fashion, all they’ll say is that KB3213567 “… improves some translations for the Dutch version of Word 2013. “ which could mean almost anything. It doesn’t appear to
Microsoft’s promotion of a new OneNote for Windows 10 feature is, to put it politely, misleading. The updated app doesn’t do what the hype promises. You can’t insert a meeting from ‘Outlook’ and not ‘Outlook 2016’ as Microsoft alleges. Hype vs Reality is something all Microsoft customers are familiar with,
Microsoft published a blog post about all the great things added to Office 365 in April 2017. Naturally, many overworked journalists took the bait and there’s been a lot of similar stories across the media. Microsoft’s PR department must be very pleased with themselves. So much free, unquestioning, publicity. It’s
Microsoft is taking a lot of heat over their Docs.com and the leaking of private information. Redmond isn’t entirely to blame, though they could have handled the issue much, much better. Office Watch explains the problem and what to do about it. Private information on docs.com like credit card details,
The Google Docs apps have a useful option for making new documents, worksheets and presentations that are Microsoft Office compatible. JR Raphael at ComputerWorld pointed out the option in the Google Docs app for Android, we poked around to find the equivlalents in Google Sheets and Google Slides Under Settings there’s
We’d love to use the Signal messaging app. It’s very secure without going to extremes and it’s free. So why doesn’t it get used at Office-Watch.com? Simple – there’s no file transfer feature. You can exchange texts and make phone calls but that’s it. Even WhatsApp now lets you transfer
The Office for Android apps can now access a wider range of cloud storage options including Dropbox, Box, Egnyte and Tencent with more to come. We’ve mentioned before Microsoft’s Cloud Storage Partner Program which allows non-Microsoft providers to get a link inside the Office apps. It’s something that would have
The ‘Get Office’ app for Windows 10 has received a considerable upgrade to make it more than a billboard to sell Office 365. It’s now (or will be) an ‘Office hub’ for access to all things Office. Recent documents, the programs themselves, Office 365 account settings plus help and training.
Microsoft is boasting that Office 365 is now available in eleven more countries, though that’s a bit of hype. The ‘new’ countries where you can buy Office 365 plans are: ” Bhutan, Cambodia, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Laos, Maldives, Martinique, Mozambique, Myanmar and Vatican City “ Some of these might catch your
Maybe Microsoft thinks that all ‘foreigners’ are stupid or don’t understand technology? Their Outlook ‘concessions’ to the EU regarding the LinkedIn buyout are laughable. LinkedIn, the large social media site, is being bought by Microsoft for $26 billion but faces opposition from rivals. Salesforce, in particular, is fighting the merge
Our extended coverage of Word’s AutoText feature uncovered some peculiarities and annoyances but mostly the yawning gap between the ribbon/menu options and the field code features. What you see on the menu, drop down lists and options for AutoText aren’t reflected in the AUTOTEXTLIST field code. AUTOTEXTLIST makes a little
There are long-standing but hidden parts to AutoText that’s worth checking out – the field codes. Two Word field codes apply to AutoText: {AutoText } – inserts or updates the named AutoText field automatically. {AutoTextList } makes a menu of some or all AutoText entries to select from. These field
We’re not sure what has got to Microsoft in Britain but they’re offering some excellent prices on Office 365 annual ‘subscription’ at the moment. Around 40% off the regular price for renewals and new customers. The usual prices for Office 365 in the ‘Mother Country’ are: Home (5 users/licences) £79.99
Officially there’s one way to insert common or reused text into a Word document – but really there’s two options, depending you on your need. We’ll show you both! We recently told you about Quick Parts and AutoText to be used in Outlook emails, now let’s look at those same
Several readers have asked for a fix to an annoyance in Outlook’s handling of AutoText for emails and replies. They’d like to have different AutoText menus for each Outlook account. Many people have multiple email accounts for different roles in our life. An individual has a personal email account plus,
