Microsoft’s test area ‘Garage’ has released a PowerPoint tool which promises to translate into multiple languages your speech to accompany a presentation. Presentation Translator translates your spoken remarks and posts them as subtitles on the slide deck. Source: Microsoft Source: Microsoft It does more than show subtitles on the big screen. Audience members can use […]
Excel is main focus of this month’s security patches from Microsoft. It’s a familiar story, so Microsoft recycles their stock phrases from similar security lapses in the past. A ‘specially crafted’ document can cause a ‘memory corruption’ in Office. The July 2017 patches fix not one, but two separate design errors in Office. All supported […]
Microsoft proudly added accessibility features to Office 2016 for Windows, in particular ‘Alt Text’. Pity it’s not been refined and fixed once the hype died down. Earlier this year, Microsoft added an ‘Alt Text’ feature to Office which tries to automatically suggest alternative text for visually impaired readers. Right click on an image and choose […]
Images inserted into your Word documents are being automatically uploaded to Microsoft for the accessibility ‘Alt Text’ feature. Even if the image and document are saved on your computer, not cloud storage. It’s a hidden ‘feature’ in Office 2016 for Windows desktop (Office 365 subscribers). Earlier this year, Microsoft added an ‘Alt Text’ feature to […]
Yes, you can make your own ‘Time” magazine cover, to put up in your house, office, den, golf clubs or whatever. Our Eye-Catching Signs with Word includes over 50 Word documents ready to use as signage. Two of them are magazine covers complete with title, border, sub-titles even a ‘date’. You can change the photo, […]
