Microsoft has made a major blunder with the July patches for Office. An update can crash Outlook for Windows entirely and the reason for the problem makes the bug especially humiliating for Microsoft. We’ll explain Microsoft’s blunder, what you can do if affected and how to avoid the buggy patch. Outlook for Windows tries to […]
The Excel team has joined the current ‘Cake’ meme with a new Cake() function in Excel. Hilarity ensues … Source: Twitter Ho ho, very funny, it is to laugh. Most people took the message in good spirit with one person implementing it in VBA That code really works. ChrW() returns the character with that Unicode […]
2020 will be remembered for many things (big sigh) but from a design viewpoint, it could be the Year of the Icon. Many of those graphics are available either in Office directly or imported from elsewhere – we’ll show you both. Everywhere you go there are signs reminding us of the new life we have […]
Word 2016, Word 2013 and Word 2010 for Windows all have a ‘text to speech’ or ‘Speak’ feature to read back a document. It’s hiding away behind the ribbon but works fine once you’ve found it. Speak button can be put on the Quick Access Toolbar or Ribbon. Select some text or Ctrl + A […]
Despite fair warnings, Microsoft has allowed an old Excel format .SLK to get past their email security and infect Excel for Windows computers. As reported by Avanan, criminals have found a way to bypass the email security for Office 365 hosted mailboxes (possibly Outlook.com as well), allowing an infected email attachment to reach Microsoft’s customers. […]
