Here’s just a few of the security breaches that caught our eye from a total of 63 security flaws patched in this months dump of fixes from Microsoft. Including five ‘zero-day’ bugs plus another 20 Edge browser security bugs fixed earlier in November. We’ve included links to more detail and specific patches for each version […]
An Office Watch reader has added his own suggestions for important parts of Microsoft Word history (and Office) that Microsoft has forgotten and would like paying customers to ignore in their revisionist history of Word. All these remarks result from Microsoft’s increasing demands for more money from customers. Lot’s of little changes all focused on […]
There are two different types of Microsoft Office you can buy retail and that difference makes hundreds of dollars difference you buying Office 2021 back to at least Office 2007. It can be hard to know which type of Microsoft Office you purchased – and it really matters to what you pay and what you […]
The word ‘grok’ is back in the news, thanks to Elon Musk. As long time Word users and classic science-fiction readers, we naturally wanted to see if Word’s spell check recognized the word. In other words, does Microsoft Word grok the word Grok? Grok is a word made up by Robert Heinlein for his classic […]
Insert the Tower 🗼 (Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower) emoji, symbol or stock photo into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The emoji is commonly called ‘Eiffel Tower’ in the west but it was originally intended to show the Tokyo Tower. That’s why some emoji are colored […]
