Office 2016 for Mac users with Office 365 subscriptions have some new features heading towards them. They are now available for ‘slow ring’ insiders and will eventually be released publicly. Many of the innovations are similar to features recently added to other Office products. Office 2016 for Mac version v15.25
A worrying number of wireless keyboards from major companies can be hacked to grab passwords and other info from you. Keyboards from companies like Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Kensington and GE are vulnerable and there could be many others not tested. The broad problem is that the wireless connection is ‘in the
Microsoft has released their Excel REST API, a way for developers to use Excel functions within their programs. This might not seem like a big deal to most people but it open up the possibility of very interesting programs and apps in the future. It’s possible for a app to
Introduction If you want to delete a record in a form bound to a single table that is not linked to another table, you can just select the record and press the Delete key, or use two simple commands in VBA code. However, if the form’s source table is linked
You can add a calendar of Olympic events to your Outlook calendars to help schedule your TV watching. As usual, people have converted the Rio events into a computer readable format that can be imported into calendar programs like Microsoft Outlook. There’s no official web calendar from either the organizers
Office 365 customers have various choices for installing Office for Windows or Mac. The default is Office for Windows 32-bit. The Office 365 web site gives you Windows or Mac options plus language variant depending on the computer you’re using (i.e. it picks up the operating system and language from
There’s a security hole in Internet Explorer, the Windows 10 Edge browser and Microsoft Outlook that Microsoft knows about but apparently won’t fix. It’s a long standing bug called Xml eXternal Entities (XXE) but it’s become news again because hackers are using it to grab Microsoft account logins. Microsoft encourages
Office Insiders are starting to get a look at some new features coming in Office for Windows. At the moment these features are for the beta testers (aka Office insiders) and come with little help and no support. Here’s what’s coming, with our look at them in practice. Researcher in
If you want a copy of Office 2011 for Mac on your Office 365 subscription, you’ve only got until 22 September 2016 (about 6 weeks away) to get it. On your Office 365 account install web page there’s an option Install previous version. Click on that link to get Office
There’s only a day to go before the free upgrade to Windows 10 ends. After that you’ll have to pay US$119 (UK£99) to get Windows 10. How to Geek has a useful guide to reserving a free copy of Windows 10 now for use later. There are various ways to
Windows 10 ‘Anniversary’ update is being released, free, to the public next week. Be ready for this major change to Windows 10 with Windows 10 for Microsoft Office users. Our popular ebook has been fully and extensively updated for the Anniversary edition of Windows 10. The book is available NOW,
Outlook Windows/Mac blocks images linked in emails, so does Gmail (in browser) as an option. Why? And why is it best to leave the block on except when needed? The image block does seem to be a nuisance. Outlook shows rectangles where images should go and a message you can
About the special ‘Hidden info’ image included in Office for Mere Mortals. As part of an article on Outlook security Office-Watch.com made a special ‘image’ that displays, within an email, some system information sent by Outlook to the Internet. This image was included in Office for Mere Mortals for Monday
The Q4 earning report for Microsoft is out with continued good news for Office 365 and Office. There are now over 23 million Office 365 consumer subscribers, up from 15.2 million a year ago. That’s in addition to the business users including new arrival, Facebook. There are now 90,000 ‘partners’
Facebook has announced that it’s moving all their 13,000 employees to Microsoft Office, specifically Office 365 with Exchange Server hosting for mail, calendar and contacts. Facebook will continue with it’s own collaboration systems. Every week there’s another announcement of an organization switching to Office 365. Office Watch sees them all
This months security patches for Windows and Office include two very concerning bugs. There’s a patch for a security bug in the Print spooler. That’s the software which sends documents to your printer. The flaw allows external print drivers to be installed on a network printer. Because print drivers are
A new Sophos report on vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office reveals some of the underlying business behind trying to infect computers. We often talk about hackers making special documents or files then trying to trick you into opening those files and infecting your computer. The term ‘hackers’ is misleading because it
A clever Belgian guy has figured out a way to make a lot of money out of Microsoft Office. Sadly, it’s probably illegal, definitely improper and Microsoft has stopped it. We’ve talked about two-factor authentication and recommended it for anyone with a Microsoft Account, especially with Office 365. ‘2Fac’ makes
” I get emails with smime.p7s attachments. What are they? How do I open one? Should I be worried? “ Firstly, don’t worry if you see a smime.p7s email attachment. It’s nothing to worry about and it’s not something you can open. Smime.p7s is a digital signature which can be
A few readers have noticed our articles about Outlook attachment blocks with mentions of ‘Level 1’ settings to both add and remove file extensions. Outlook has a second level of attachment protection called, amazingly, Level 2. There are no file extensions setup by default so most people don’t notice Level
As well as removing file types from Outlook’s extreme protection, you can also add ‘banned’ file types. It’s done in a very similar way to unblocking ‘Level 1’ attachments. The Outlook attachment blocks can be added in the Registry at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\<version>\Outlook\Security The <version> of Outlook is Outlook 2016 16.0 Outlook 2013 15.0
In any ideal world, there’s just one action necessary to update your copy of Office for Windows. We don’t live in an ideal world. In the Research pane, mostly used for Translation but also other lookups, there may be a small link at the bottom ‘Get updates to your services’.
Office 2016 for Mac is getting some new features, first to Office for Mac Insiders and then to all Office 2016 for Mac users on an Office 365 plan. Mac customers even get a useful feature BEFORE Office for Windows … that doesn’t happen very often. Shared Files A new
The current US Presidential campaign is, how shall we say, ‘interesting’ to put it mildly. And now Microsoft Word has been drawn into political controversy … not for the first time either. Office-Watch.com prefers to stay well away from politics in any country but this is directly about MS Word
