This is a good time to renew Office 365 Home with prices about as low as we’ve ever seen them. It’s possible to save $40 or 40%. There are also some good deals on Office 2019 packages. The official and automatic renewal price for Office 365 Home in the USA
It’s not specified in this press release but the announcement means a change in the financial data source for Excel 365’s Stock data type. ” 16 October 2018 Collaboration brings financial data to the masses with simple, direct access to trusted financial data within Microsoft Excel, MSN Money and Bing.
We like Excel 365’s new Stock data type but it’s far from perfect. It’s vital that you make sure you’re tracking the correct stock and exchange by checking the ticker code. Microsoft has been having a difficult time ‘data wrangling’. They rely on outside contractors to supply the price and
Give Stock or Geography linked data types a try in Excel 365 for Windows. It really is a great innovation and will be better once Microsoft sorts out the data issues. Getting started At its simplest, type in the name of a company and click on Data | Data Types
Excel 365’s new Stock data type has the potential to be really great. Here’s how to report problems to Microsoft so they can fix them. Real people read the bug reports, especially for a new and developing feature like Linked Data Types. The bug reports help Microsoft staff identify problems
A truly interesting new Excel feature is now going public. Stock and Geography are the first two Linked Data Types (LDT) that bring stock prices and geographic info direct into Excel 365. Stock data type gives you information on stocks and indexes from over 60 global stock exchanges. No messing
Microsoft has released four security patches that all Outlook for Windows need to protect from newly discovered bugs. The patches apply to Outlook 365, 2019, 2016, 2013 and 2010 for Windows and are available today. The four Outlook security bugs are related. They involved a hacked .RWZ file that could
A previously theoretical way to misuse Office documents to infect your computer is now ‘in the wild’ and Microsoft isn’t interested in stopping it. Last week we told you about a new way for Office documents to get malware onto your computer. Cymulate discovered that the Online Video feature could
A little side-trick for converting text dates to Excel dates is replacing the text separator. Excel lets you replace text within the selected cells only. If the text dates are in the correct order (e.g. m/d/y ) but use the wrong separator for your Windows regional setting (e.g. m-d-y ).
Cymulate is reporting how embedded video in Word or other Office documents are another way for criminals and hackers to infect your computer. It’s yet another example of how Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents can be used to get malware onto computers to steal data, becomes bots or other nasties.
Speed Running, a gamers pastime has come to Microsoft Word. Finding ways to type the numbers 1 to 100 in the fastest time. If you’re unfamiliar with speed running, as we were, it’s playing and recording a pass through a game aiming to complete as fast as possible. Someone came
Changing an Excel formula into the values is amazingly easy. It’s just a copy and special paste. Another way to think of it is deleting the formula but leaving the results in the cells. Select the cells. In this case from our article on converting text cells into Excel dates.
The 2018 Scrabble World Championship is over. How does the Microsoft Word spell check fare against the Scrabble champs? Microsoft Word has slightly different dictionaries for many English language variations (US, UK, Australian etc). Word’s English dictionaries different from the official Scrabble dictionary. Among the words in the final rounds
A judgement from the US Court of Appeals turned on the Word Count feature in Microsoft Word and how it differs from the rules for court submissions. Most courts have rules about the length of submission which, in this case, were accidently exceeded. The plaintiff is representing himself (‘pro se’)
Adding or subtracting months in Excel is easier with the Edate() function. As you probably know, Excel uses whole numbers to calculate dates. Add 1 to an Excel date adds a day. How to add a whole month? How to make Excel jump a whole calendar month? For example from
Coming to Word 365 for Windows are more Ink Editor gestures plus a pop-out pane to explain the gestures available. Ink Editor is on the Draw menu. It’s a way to use a digital pen to edit existing text. For example, draw a squiggly line through some words to delete
Microsoft Office for Windows is gradually changing the software name to Office 365 . It’s being done slowly, almost by stealth but it’s happening. Keen eyed readers have noticed a gradual change on the Microsoft web site and software. We first mentioned it back in August 2018 but the software
We’ve added more to Real Time Excel, our comprehensive guide to adding the latest information into Excel easily and automatically. Real Time Excel already has in-depth coverage of Linked Data Types, a new and truly interesting addition to Excel for Windows. On 15 October 2018 we added a bit more
A New York Times article about parents writing their kids college entrance essay reminded us of a forgotten feature in Microsoft Word. A feature of modern ‘helicopter parenting‘ is helping, if not entirely writing, essays for their children. The article How I Know You Wrote Your Kid’s College Essay by
An Australian university has developed a font that will help you remember what you read. It sounds like an April Fool’s joke, but the font is real and works in Office for Mac or Windows. Sans Forgetica was made at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Unlike most fonts, Sans Forgetica
Adding email, calendar and contacts Live Tiles to the Windows Start Menu would seem like an obvious thing to do. Here’s how you can workaround to do it. On the Windows 8 and 10 large Start Menu are ‘Live Tiles’ which are updated to show the latest information. Some of
From today, 1 October 2018, Office 365 licencing rules change in a way Microsoft has never done before. Redmond announced the change a few weeks ago but now we can see the new Office 365 licence rules working, with a few unanswered questions. The change won’t affect your current Office
Insiders (Fast or Slow) will start seeing a major change to the date information they get from the Excel Stock Data type. All Excel for Windows ‘Insiders’ can try out the Stock and Geo data types. They are a new way to get external information into Excel without the hassle
A fun new font using famous logos for letters also demonstrates where Windows 10 and Windows 11 color font features become useful with Microsoft Word. Brand New Roman is a fun mashup font made up of famous logos. It looks best in color so it’s handy that Windows 11/10 supports
