There are changes coming for Office 2010 and Office 2013 for Windows plus Office 2016 for Mac on 13 October as Microsoft makes their online services incompatible with older versions of Office. We’ll explain what’s happening, to whom and the effects. What’s happening? Some older, less secure connection methods will be dropped from Microsoft hosted […]
The names of genes are being changed just to stop Excel confusing them with dates during the import process. We’ll explain two ways Excel already works to avoid the geneticist’s problem. Genes named like MARCH1 and SEPT1 which Excel converts into dates when imported the wrong way, usually directly via a CSV text file. Office […]
Why does Excel change what people type or import, sometimes in ways they don’t want? It’s the General cell format that messes with what you type or import. It’s the default cell format ‘General’. It’s top of the Formats list and most of us haven’t given it a second thought. Microsoft short explanation is ‘No […]
Microsoft Office 2010 ends support later this year but there’s no need to panic. Here’s what to do, when to change from Office 2010 and what to replace it. Office 2010 countdown [ycd_countdown id=”31774″][/ycd_countdown] Office 2010 ends support on Tuesday, 13 October 2020 All the Office 2010 programs will keep working. No change there. Tuesday, […]
PowerPoint 365 way back to PowerPoint 2010 all have a ‘text to speech’ or ‘Speak’ feature to read aloud the text in a slide. It’s hiding away behind the ribbon but works fine once you’ve found it. The PowerPoint Speak or Real Aloud feature is similar to the Speak option in Word. Speak button can […]
