There are better ways to move about a document than scrolling up and down. Word has some nifty navigation tricks that’ll have you moving around a document like a city bicycle courier! We’ll skip the more obvious ones that are covered in most texts and explain the navigation tips less
The Edinburgh International Festival is just one of the August festivals in the city. They have some methods of adding their show information into Outlook but with some traps along the way. On the My Festivals page for each account, use the ICS Calendar Link to get a list of
If you love drama, comedy or music then you’d love Edinburgh, Scotland during August. It’s a busy, busy time with so much going on that you’ll need your online calendar and Outlook to keep track of everything. In this and other articles, we’ll give you a practical guide to managing
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has some help adding your Fringe bookings into Outlook with some tricks and traps they don’t mention. Overall The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has an excellent site and apps with an online calendar for each customer and a feature to download booked events into Outlook. It would
A North Carolina woman and her son are accused of sharing their discounted Microsoft Office access with her ex-husband, a clear breach of the Home Use Program. Source: WLOS, “your Western Carolina News Leader” We’ve been talking about the Home Use Program for many years. It’s a heavily discounted Microsoft
Here’s how to make a custom ribbon tab in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook and how Microsoft has left customers shortchanged for the last decade. We’ve already talked about customizing the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) for certain documents. You can make the QAT adapt according to the document you’ve
There’s an amazing collection of Apple device (iOS) and computer (MacOS) you can use on PowerPoint slides or a Windows desktop. ‘nucleam’ put the collection up on Google Photos. They range from the most recent for iPhone back to the early days of iOS 3. Some are famous images, a
The truly interesting Excel live Stock price and Geography data feeds have reached the next release stage, ‘Monthly Channel (Targeted)’ better known as ‘Slow’ Insiders. Stock and Geo data types are now in Excel 2016 for Windows, Office 365 subscribers who have chosen the ‘Monthly Channel (Targeted)’ Insiders release. Version 1807
Remember Office Mix? It was Microsoft’s effort to make PowerPoint slide more interactive and online. What happened to it and why hasn’t it been properly replaced? Mix is one of those Microsoft ventures which they encourage Office customers to spend time and money on. Redmond promises their wholehearted support for
Not all Word documents need the same tools. Some special documents are easier to make with tools added to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) just for the occasion. Changing the Quick Access Toolbar has been around since Office 2007 but it’s less well-known that you can change it for certain
Microsoft Teams is primarily a cloud and web-based service with software or apps available for the main platforms. Teams features appear to be introduced first to the browser based Teams then added to apps later on. We’ve had considerable trouble with the Teams apps during testing. Perhaps that because of
When you first go into Teams it’s a confusing jungle of terms and options. As usual, Microsoft assumes we’ve all been born knowing how their software is arranged. It’s not as difficult as it looks … once you get the structure or logic of Microsoft Teams. Wrap your head around
There’s a somewhat confusing range of parts inside Microsoft Teams, here’s a guide to things like Teams, Channels, Chats, Wiki and other goodies. In How Microsoft Teams fits together we explain the Microsoft Teams structure from an teams. The Best Way to learn Microsoft Teams Dive in and try it. Teams
It’s taken Microsoft some time but their collaboration service Teams is now available for free to all comers. The popular collaboration service, Slack, built its business on their free offering. Many businesses adopted Slack after discovering their staff had setup Slack groups of their own. A lot of short term
We’ve said for a long time that buying direct from Microsoft is the most expensive way to buy their hardware or software. Redmond has found another way to trick more money from customers buying a Surface product. When you choose a Surface Go from the Microsoft Store, Microsoft adds TWO
Google has updated their Drive app to support preview of Microsoft Office documents with password encryption. Here’s how it works online and in the Google Drive app. In early 2017 the browser-based part of Google Drive let you preview password protected Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Only preview of Office
Patch Tuesday included the usual bug fixes for more security holes in Microsoft Office plus an important Adobe PDF reader update. The Microsoft Office updates should be applied automatically but the Adobe Reader might need a manual update, instructions below. Windows bug fixes are available for Windows 10, 8.1 and
Here’s a list of the non-security aka bug fix updates to Office 2016 for Windows, released for July 2018. These updates should come to you automatically via Microsoft Update or you can patch individually from the links provided. Here’s Microsoft’s list with their explanation of each update. Office 2016 Excel
A clever use of Excel is at the end of a paperless class attendance system used by a Filipino teacher. Michael Angelo posted on Facebook how he’s switched to a paperless system for his classes. The same system can be used for classes, one-off events or even to track physical
How to type the degree symbol (Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, latitude, longitude) into Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Degree Symbol codes Decimal: 176 Hex: 00B0 Web: ° ° ° Word The degree symbol ° has an inbuilt shortcut in Word. Ctrl + @ or Ctrl + Shift + 2 followed by
Think you know Excel? A 14 year old high school student from Florida has beaten 350,000 contestants and 147 finalists to be become the 2018 US National Excel Champion. Kevin Dimaculangan from Dunbar High School is now going to the World Championships in Orlando, Florida at the end of July. His win
Another long-standing hackers trick still works with Microsoft’s much hyped Office 365 email security. ZeroFont is a simple way to hide text that might trigger a security alert. Source: GIF animation from Avanan Office 365 has been an increasing target for hackers, especially as more people and organizations sign-up for
A new Office ‘Garage’ option is ‘Student Tools’ an extra ribbon featuring the tools Microsoft thinks are most appropriate for students. It’s only available to students in USA, Australia or New Zealand for Office 365 for Windows or Office 2016 ProPlus. Word Student Tool Garage is where Microsoft tries out
A source of envy for Windows users has been the quick preview feature on Mac computers. That envy has gone now that there’s two apps that add the same feature to Windows 10. Seer and QuickLook both do the same thing and while they are useful, both lack an important
