There’s only one Office patch this month. Given Microsoft’s bad track record on patches, especially over the last few months, we can only hope that this patch is bug free. The patch itself is ‘déjà vu all over again’. It fixes yet more ways for a hacked Office document to let people access your computer. […]
We’ve improved and expanded Organizing Outlook Email to fully include Outlook 2016. As usual with updates to our ebooks, the update is free to past purchasers of the 3rd edition. Among the many updates, we’ve added sections on the new attachments features in Outlook 2016. Also the Clutter feature for Exchange Server customers. There’s about 20 […]
Microsoft has joined with Harman to announce a project to link your car with Microsoft Office in the cloud. Sorry to pour cold water on all this but the announcement doesn’t include any products. In fact, there’s little of substance in the press release. We can look forward to having an internet connection in your […]
In theory, Outlook can handle almost any number of folders or items but in practice there are performance limits, especially if you’re using Exchange Server / Office 365 hosting. See Outlook extremes – how big and long can you go with Outlook? for more details. The limits are: Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013: 100,000 items per folder […]
With Outlook 2007 SP2, Microsoft introduced a ‘hard’ limit on the size of outgoing emails using SMTP (ie POP or IMAP connections). This limit isn’t related to any limit imposed by the mail host, it’s a somewhat arbitrary value chosen in 2007 and not changed since. It’s still the limit in Outlook 2010, 2013 and […]
