Microsoft has now provided a fix for the bad Outlook patch we told you about last week, though they’ve done it in a strangely clumsy way. The original patch KB3114409 for Outlook 2010 sometimes caused Outlook to always start in Safe Mode. After this failure of internal testing, Microsoft had to withdraw the patch from […]
Microsoft has slightly backtracked on their OneDrive storage cutback decision from last month. Free accounts were dropped to a lowly 5GB while paid Office 365 accounts were reduced to 1Terabyte from ‘unlimited’ (with no drop in the annual fee). Now free accounts can keep their 15GB limit plus any ‘camera roll bonus’ space after the […]
Pantone, the commercial color company has announced its “Colors of the Year” for 2016. Here’s how to use the latest ‘in’ colors in your Microsoft Office documents. ‘Color of the Year’ is an end-of-year marketing trick by Pantone. It gets the company some free advertising and people talk about colors. As we explained back in […]
Microsoft has again released a bad patch for Microsoft Office and it’s particularly embarrassing. The December 2015 patch called KB 3114409 was supposed to stop a problem where Outlook 2010 started in Safe Mode. Instead the patch did the reverse … it forced Outlook 2010 into Safe Mode. Oh dear. Note: this applies to Outlook […]
Word has a simple way to let you change standard text within a document – it’s called document properties. These are settings or constants that are hidden in the document ‘meta-data’ and can be inserted into the document. One document property is called ‘Subject’ which can have a value like ‘Plan for summer holidays’. If […]
