Microsoft has released ‘Skype for Meetings‘ a new multi-person video conferencing service which is available free with more features to Office 365 business plan customers. Before you get too excited there’s lots of conditions and hidden tricks in this latest announcement. We count at least six conditions * either in the fine print or when […]
So far, we’ve focused on how to protect yourself from infected emails and attachments which arrive via email into Outlook. What about documents that arrive on a USB memory stick, instant messaging or other means? There are both virus check and preview options available, similar to Outlook. Windows Defender comes with all recent versions of […]
Programmers and developers have an Outlook Reading/Preview pane option, but there’s a catch. Windows Preview Handlers http://previewhandlers.codeplex.com/ has preview plugins for a range of programming source code. It gives some contextual colorization to the code, making it easier to read. ActionScript .as ASPX .aspx C# .cs CSS .css Diff .diff, .patch DOS .bat, .cmd JavaScript […]
Office for Windows insiders have been promised text highlighting in PowerPoint 2016. The lack of highlighting has been a notable omission from PowerPoint for some time. Word has it in spades, Excel has some highlighting options too. The highlighting tool appears on the Home tab, Font block … just where you’d expect it to be. […]
Microsoft is rearranging the Office development teams to start a fundamental change in the way Office works. Julie Larson-Green, Microsoft Office’s Chief Experience Officer and long-time Redmond executive has talked about moving Office from a ‘document’ base to a ‘task‘ base. At the moment, we use Office through specific programs – Word, Excel or PowerPoint. […]
