For a long time, Microsoft has quietly fixed bugs in Office, which is a good thing. Not so good is their habit of hiding news of these fixes. If you’ve been suffering with a particular bug, it’s hard to know when or if it’s been fixed. Among the January 2016 fixes are these (using Microsoft’s […]
Microsoft Office has many benefits for its millions of users and there’s scientific evidence that Office features can make you appear smarter … truly. Simpler words make you seem smarter It’s an old student trick to use bigger words in an effort to impress the teacher but it doesn’t really work. A 2005 study compared […]
Not all appointments are ‘one off’, many happen on a regular basis. Outlook lets you add these ‘recurring’ appointments just once and they’ll appear in your diary each time. There’s even allowance for exceptions when the regular event is cancelled or changed. Outlook’s recurring appointments can handle pretty much all repeating patterns you’ll need. They […]
There are many Miracast adapters available but the best is the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter. If you get one, the hidden trick is to update the firmware. Miracast is a system for wirelessly connecting a computer to a remote screen for both video and audio. A Miracast dongle plugs into the HDMI socket of any […]
Office for Android has been given some useful upgrades in a January 2016 update. Overall Share documents using WeChat and QQ apps. These are interesting choices because both are chat services mostly for the mainland Chinese market. Use the Share option to send a document or link via any compatible service installed in the devices […]
