How easy is it to switch from the one-time purchase/perpetual licence version of Office 2016 to the Office 365 annual payment / ‘subscription’ version? You might think that the switch is no big deal but it’s not just about how you buy Office 2016. The perpetual licence version is installed and run quite differently to […]
Microsoft has released to their ‘Fast Track’ some improved Translation features in Word 2016 for Windows. The new Translator is cloud powered and will eventually flow to all Office 2016 ‘subscribers’. Yes, even Office 2016 for Mac! The new features replace the existing Research Pane and Mini-Translators. It’s only for Microsoft Word, not other Office […]
Here’s how to control what Outlook does when it gets a Read Receipt request with an incoming email. The setting is at File | Options | Mail | Tracking, just below where you set the options for outgoing Read Receipts. That’s Outlook for Windows, see below about Outlook for Mac. The choices are: Always send […]
A new vulnerability in Word was discovered and patched by Microsoft earlier this month. Again, the source was an RTF (Rich Text Format) document. There’s still a widespread myth that RTF files are ‘safe’ supposedly because RTF’s can’t contain macros. That’s FALSE. .RTF documents aren’t designed to accept code, they are hacked in many, many […]
A table bug in Word 2016 for Windows was caused by not one but two different software patches with customers expected to wait up to two months for a proper fix. The trouble started with 8 August 2017 patch and continued a month later with the 5 September 2017 patch. Either of these patches could […]
