Microsoft has released its monthly security patches for January 2015 but no fix for the broken patch from last month! All the talk has been about Google’s disclosure of a security flaw in Windows just before Microsoft released a fix for the problem. Lots of accusations flying both ways on
Of course, you can’t fully send emails from Outlook if the computer isn’t connected to the Internet … but it’s surprising how many people don’t know they can write and click Send any time – whether the computer is connected to the Internet or not. We often use the relatively
By Helen Feddema Access versions: 2007-2013 Level: Intermediate Introduction Word has a sophisticated Table of Contents feature that automatically creates a table of contents from designated headings in a document. Access reports don’t have such a feature, but I managed to create one using VBA code, custom database properties and
The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting has released the emails of Governor Jeb Bush during his tenure as Florida’s governor. That’s of interest to us since the information is available in its original Outlook data file form. Before anyone gets angry with us … we are not making any political
One of the automatically installed patches for Office causes a new bug! Ouch. The new bugs aren’t common but even so, they are embarrassing. You can find the details under the Knowledge Base article headed ““Cannot insert object” error in an ActiveX custom Office solution after you install the MS14-082
When you type or paste a web link into Office, it normally converts it into a web link automatically. But occasionally that feature doesn’t work right. We found one example when researching the famous artist Roy Lichtenstein and one of his best known works. Click on the image to see
John Harcourt-Rigg writes …. “Could you tell me why Microsoft do not offer a similar discount programme for users of Microsoft Office 365 that users receive in USA. That is a discount for: Serving Members, and retired Military Veterans Australian VETS have served side by side with USA veterans in
These days, Outlook Categories are saved within the PST data file. If you move the PST to a new computer, the categories will move too. Exchange Server saves categories with each user mailbox and they show up automatically when you login (even with Outlook Web Access). Backup and Restore Even
Microsoft has really made Office 365 more compelling by raising their online OneDrive storage from 1 Terabyte to Unlimited for Office 365 subscribers. If you have Office 365 Personal, Home, University or Business account, the OneDrive storage limit will be effectively removed entirely. For Home subscribers, shared among several people,
We’ve already looked at Microsoft Office document properties features. They are fully featured in Word and have limited availability in Excel so now we look at PowerPoint. PowerPoint has little document automation. Word users are often surprised to discover that even basic field codes don’t exist in PowerPoint. As a
We’ve already told you about document properties and how useful they are in Word. We also complained about the poor support for properties in Excel. You can add and edit document properties in worksheets much the same as in Word documents. Go to File | Info in Excel 2013 (Prepare
While delving into the details of Office document properties, we found some curious anomalies. They aren’t major but worth keeping in mind if you use document properties in Word documents. When you enter a document property it should just add the text and the same document property will show the
Microsoft Office has Ebola … meaning it’s in the supplied dictionaries for Word 2013, Word 2010 and Word 2007. As a proper noun, the disease name has a capital letter. Without it, Word marks it as a spelling error. The surname Pooley isn’t in the dictionary and, as we’ll see,
Document Properties is one of those long-standing parts of Office that is worth another look. It can be quite useful and not always in the ways that Microsoft intends. At first, document properties looks like a fixed and rigid feature with limited use. However it can be used in much
While Microsoft Word lumbers along, there’s some interesting and genuinely creative word processors out there. We’re not talking about direct rivals to Microsoft Office 2013 like OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Kingsoft Office Free, Google Docs, iWork or earlier versions of Office. Instead we’ll look at software that takes a very different approach to
In this article we’ll go over some of the, still, little understood ribbon features before looking how to get rid of the ribbon entirely. Yesterday I met a guy who absolutely hates the Office ribbon and wanted tips on how to get rid of it. I didn’t see his Office
Microsoft has announced the existence but not availability of a new part of Office, Microsoft Sway. https://sway.com/ Sway is a new way to make a web based presentations with text, images, video, social media integrated. It certainly looks interesting. We think of it as a 21st Century version of PowerPoint,
In addition to the new 10GB file limit in OneDrive, Microsoft is rolling out two other improvements that may be of interest to Microsoft Office users. Share from Explorer Coming to Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 ‘soon’ is an addition to the right-click menu in Explorer. ‘Share a OneDrive link’
Microsoft has increased the maximum size for a single file on OneDrive to 10GB. That’s a sensible change since Office 365 customers now have a Terabyte (1,000GB) available online. The 10GB limit applies to files transferred via the desktop or mobile apps. Uploads via web browser seem to remain limited
Microsoft has made it easier for students to get a free copy of the Microsoft Office suite with a major streamlining of their existing Student Advantage program. How to get the free Office The student (13 years and older) has to be enrolled at a school which has MS Office
More than a few Outlook users have seen this error message “The Microsoft Exchange administrator has made a change that requires you quit and restart Outlook” Problem is, the Microsoft message is lying! All too often Outlook users restart Outlook, even restart the computer, but the same message keeps appearing.
In Windows 8.1 for Microsoft Office users we have an entire chapter on the OneDrive features – the good and the bad. We include the policy and registry settings necessary to disable OneDrive entirely in Windows 8.1. But is it a good idea to entirely remove OneDrive features? Microsoft does
Eventually we all need to find a deleted document or a past version of an existing document. You never know when it’ll be needed or for which document. There’s many options available for keeping older versions of a document or file, most of them you have to setup in advance.
A few months ago we told you about Office Mix, a way to put PowerPoint presentations online. Microsoft has given us several attempts at sharing presentations online. Office Mix is probably the best integration of PowerPoint slides and some features only possible online. For a plain showing of PowerPoint slides
