Today’s story from the UK Parliament raised the interesting fact that there’s a difference between Lipreaders and Lipspeakers. Being Office nerds we wondered if Microsoft Word’s dictionary knew about the two words. Let’s start with the basics … The difference between a lipreader and a lipspeaker A lipreader is deaf
Microsoft’s own Bing search engine was giving prominent place to a link which explains how to pirate Office 2019. It’s a curious display of algorithmic and corporate independence, All you had to do is search for ‘Office 2019 download’ on Bing to see information that Microsoft definitely does not approve
Musicians with Excel skills might like to try Excel MIDI an Excel file with a simple sequencer that plays MIDI music. Made by ruiseixas from Portugal, Excel MIDI is an Excel worksheet downloadable from SourceForge. It’s an .XLSM file so you’ll have to enable VBA content to let it work.
If you’re sending meeting requests or invitations there’s an important Outlook option to check. Normally, Outlook within a company, uses Microsoft’s own method for including meeting details. That’s OK ‘in-house’ where you can be sure everyone has Outlook. But you don’t know what people outside the organization use to manage
Pantone has announced its Color of the Year for 2019 but before you run off to grab color swatches, here’s how to get it in Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. The color of 2019 is <drum roll> ….. Living Coral … As usual what’s more amazing than the
Icons are a relatively new part of Office 365 for Windows/Mac but can they be used in emails that go to people not using Office 365? SVG graphics are widely supported in web browsers but not all email programs know what to do with these new images. What do they
Office Watch reader, Meredith M. asks a question we’ve heard many times before. Why can’t you buy individual Office programs instead of paying for an Office bundle with programs you don’t need? “My issue: I need ONLY Word, Excel and Access–but I NEED them. I know that I cannot buy
It’s an old scam but apparently still profitable for criminals. Fake phone support pretending to be from Microsoft to ‘help’ fix virus or other non-existent problems with Office or Windows. They’ve been happening for years but seem to be getting a revival lately. What you need to know Microsoft will
Office 2019 is different in licencing and enforcement from earlier perpetual licence versions of Office. Your Office 2019 could be cancelled if Microsoft decides it’s a pirated or illegal copy. Software activation or authorization is now an ongoing process. From time to time, Office 2019 and Office 365 checks with
Here’s three more Office 2019 scams to avoid. They are plainly illegal sales of Microsoft Office that might work but Microsoft can cancel the licence at any time. Two of them are on Amazon or Ebay, sites that customers should be able to trust and are supposed to prevent these
Dig a little into PowerPoint for some slide printing choices. They apply to printing slides only, slides with notes, outline or handouts. See also: Print part of a Word document Print selected pages or sections of a Word document in any order Print selection and other choices in Excel The choices
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
Microsoft has raised the prices of Office 2019, but there are still ways to beat the price rise. As widely expected, Microsoft upped the retail price of Office 2019. The official price increases are up to 10%. Office 2019 Home & Student remains at the same price, $149.99, keeping the
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 Office Home Use Program (HUP) is a cheap way to buy Office 2019 but there are some downsides. Your money might be better used for an Office 365 Home or Personal plan. The Home Use Program product is very limited in both features and how many computers you can
We clear up some of the misunderstandings about the MS Office Home Use Program (HUP), one of the cheapest ways to buy Microsoft Office. In our article Home Use Program or getting Microsoft Office for $15 we explained how many companies can let their staff buy Office 2019 for Windows
The cheapest legal way to get Microsoft Office is the Home Use Program (HUP). It costs just $15 each for Office 2019 Windows or Mac. Like many Microsoft deals, it’s not as good as in the past, but it’s still cheap and worth considering. Many people qualify for the Home
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
