Q: On one of my Access reports, strange light grey bands print here and there. What causes them, and how do I remove them? A: This is most likely because of the Access default setting for Alternate Back Color for group headers and footers in reports. Alternate row shading is an excellent feature for the […]
Microsoft has released a preview/beta version of Office 2016 to effectively all comers. Here’s how to get it. The Preview version comes with the 2016 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, OneNote and Publisher. Office 2016 requires Windows 7 or later. Similar memory and drive space requirements to Office 2013. Office 2016 Preview cannot […]
Barry G writes “Peter, nice work waking up Microsoft about the broken link in Outlook 2013. Now they should look at the Outlook 2010 link which isn’t broken but it’s quite useless”. Barry is right, the Outlook 2010 link to ‘View social network providers available online’ does no such thing. The link currently goes to […]
It took many weeks and repeated public shaming but Microsoft has finally fixed the social connectors link in Outlook 2013. The ‘Connect to another social network’ link now works – well sort of. Microsoft’s problem, and the reason why the link went to a ‘Page not found’ error, was the lack of social connectors. Redmond […]
A reader asks how to install OneNote (available free from Microsoft) with the older versions of Office like Office 2003 or Office 2007. OneNote 2013 is available free from Microsoft as are versions for Mac, Apple and Android. Any attempt to mix versions of Office should begin with installing the older software (in this case […]
