WinFuture is reporting that Office 2016 for Windows will be officially released on 22 September 2015, quoting a screen shot from an internal Microsoft site. Source: Microsoft (allegedly) via WinFuture. An interesting bit of news, if true, but it raises some questions. Does the date matter? Does Office 2016 for Windows matter much at all? […]
Computer security company, FireEye, is reporting that a ‘malicious Word document’ is being used to infiltrate governments in Asia, especially India. China is named as the probable source of these attacks over the last four years using a hack called ‘Watermain’. Since this report involved Microsoft Office, Office-Watch.com was interested. But the more we looked […]
The latest Office 2016 preview has upgraded the existing collaboration features to include ‘real time’ co-authoring. If you’re having a touch of ‘déjà vu’ right now … it not your imagination. Microsoft has announced document collaboration so, so many times over the years. But each time the press falls for it and parrot the Microsoft […]
If you get Error #5152 when running code that saves a file, check whether there is a date formatted with slashes (2/15/2010) in the file name. Slashes are not permitted in file names, so you will get this error when trying to save a file including a date in this format. To avoid this error, […]
If you import a macro from an Access 2010 or 2013 database into an Access 2007 (or earlier) database, it will look like this in design view: This is because macro format changed between Access 2007 and 2010 (and again between 2010 to 2013, though not as much in that case). The macro may still […]
