Microsoft has updated the test version of Office 2016 with some changes in features. Most likely, Office 2016 has been updated automatically, you can check from File | Account and make sure the version is 16.0.4201.1006 or later. Excel Charts The most interesting part of the update are the new Excel charts. We’ve devoted a […]
The biggest complaint about Excel in recent years has been the lack of innovation in charts. There’s many interesting and useful charting options available in other software and web services. Poor old Excel’s charts are looking tired. Excel 2016 changes that with six new chart formats. They are the first truly ‘exciting’ thing to see […]
After a short preview period, Microsoft has publically released Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android phones. They are available to everyone for free and are a handy companion to ‘real’ Office for Windows or Mac. Office 365 subscribers get some extras but most of the core features are available to all comers. There are three […]
Last year, the UK government announced that they were using the Open Document Format (ODF) rather than Microsoft’s similar Office Open XML (docx etc.). Let’s look at how that can be done in Microsoft Office. When you install Microsoft Office, the default document types are set to Microsoft’s preferred formats; docx for Word, xlsx for […]
The Bank of England has now banned Outlook’s Autocomplete feature after an embarrassing email misaddressed incident. We’ll look at Autocomplete and its various traps for the unwary. The Bank (the equivalent of the US Federal Reserve) have a secret contingency plan for the UK leaving the European Union. Well, it was a secret until the […]
