Microsoft’s advice for Office 365 customers switching to Office 2016 for Windows leaves out some important points. Here’s the real story based on experiences from Office Watch readers across the globe. The Theory According to Microsoft there’s two ways for an Office 365 subscribers with Office 2013 to switch over to the new Office 2016. […]
Outlook users might be having trouble, caused by one of the most recent security patches from Microsoft. The November 2015 security patch referenced MS15-115 is supposed to stop attacks via fonts. Unfortunately, the security fix seems to have broken Outlook’s ability to display HTML formatted emails. Not for all users, but enough to raise many […]
The November 2015 release of Office patches includes a lot more than the usual security updates. There are major changes to Power Pivot in Excel 2013. There’s three separate patches involved. Two of the patches (KB3039739 and KB3039800) are actually part 1 and part 2 of the same update. There were conflicts between Power Query […]
September’s Excel 2013 ‘security’ update is more like a bug patch. As usual, Microsoft has tried to bury the bug news by bundling the fixes with some vague ‘security’ issues. The documentation for the bug fixes is in KB3085502 which is misleadingly titled as a ‘Description of the security update for Excel 2013’. One of […]
Apple users are excited that the iOS 9.1 update includes ‘the finger’ emoji, officially called ‘Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended’. The symbol is already in some Microsoft Windows fonts but it doesn’t look the same as the Apple version. In fact, it doesn’t look the same in the two Microsoft fonts that support emoji! […]
