Microsoft has announced their own virtual machine version of Windows and Office desktop that you can run from anywhere called Windows Virtual Desktop. WVD is a virtual Windows machine which runs on Microsoft’s Azure cloud servers. Users access that machine from their own computer using Remote Desktop software. Many organizations
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Office apps for Windows 10 have been sidelined by Microsoft with no new features planned. Bad news for anyone still using a Windows Phone. The Windows 10/Mobile apps will continue to work but no more features are planned. This ‘no more features’ decision appears to
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
Microsoft is extending availability of cloud services like OneDrive, Skype for Business and MS hosted Exchange for Office 2016 perpetual licence customers including Office 365 ProPlus At the moment, Office 2016 single-payment and Office 365 ProPlus would be blocked from OneDrive, Skype for Business and Microsoft supplied Exchange Server after
The Windows clipboard is quite limited but there’s a better one hiding inside Microsoft Office for Windows. It can collect more items, paste in any order and be cleared when you like. We’ll also show how to keep the sometimes annoying pane out of the way. You’re about to hear
A new report from Sophos shows how hacking via Office documents has changed of lot in 2018 with new attacks coming much faster than in the past. Microsoft’s assurances that a security bug (sorry ‘exploit’) hasn’t been used ‘in the wild’ doesn’t mean a lot. Office document hacks made in
After a lot of talk and promises, Office Insiders are getting a look at the proposed Outlook for Windows single-line or Simplified Ribbon for Office 365 customers. As usual, there’s good news and bad news in the interface change. Though it’s early days and there’s still time for changes. Don’t
The upcoming license changes to Office 365 Home, Personal and University is another step in Microsoft’s move to selling services not software. From 1 October, Office 365 Home, Personal and University users can install Office software on unlimited machines. For full use of the software you’ll have to sign-in to
Outlook has only one date and time related feature in email messages. As you may know, Outlook’s email editor is really Microsoft Word with limited features. On the Insert tag there’s a Text | Date & Time option which opens the same dialog as in Word. Update Automatically inserts a
Each Word document has various hidden data fields and some are called mapped content controls. They let you set some text or date in a document which is automatically repeated any other place in the document that has the same control. Mapped Content Controls are an alternative to other ‘repeating
A small collection of non-security patches for Microsoft Office in September 2018. As usual, all these updates should come to you automatically. Non-subscriber / perpetual licence users can download individual patches if necessary but auto-update should handle it for you. Outlook 2016 The update for Microsoft Outlook 2016 introduces the
The new Office 365 licence system makes you sign-in to Office software from each device. How can that work if your computer is offline and can’t connect to the Internet? See Significant improvements in Office 365 Home, Personal and University and Office 365 now counts your sign-ins not installs Several Office Watch subscribers
The upcoming changes to Office 365 mean a big boost for Office 365 Personal customers. They’ll get a lot more for their annual fee to Microsoft. At the moment, Office 365 Personal allows a single user to install Office on (quoting Microsoft). “1 PC or Mac, 1 tablet and 1
Lots of praise for Microsoft’s changes to Office 365 Home, Personal and University allowing anyone to use up to five Office instances at any one time. As usual, there’s a downside that’s lost in all the hype. These changes are another example of why Microsoft is pushing annual rental for
The Office 365 licensing change should let virtual machine users try out more test versions of Office than in the past. From 1 October 2018, Office 365 customers can install Office on as many computers/devices as they like. The licence limit switches to the number of Microsoft account logins from
The upcoming release of Office 2019 for Windows or Mac has some Office 365 customers wondering when they’ll be able to get Office 2019. That’s easy: Office 365 customers already have Office 2019 and a lot more! Office 2019 for Windows or Mac is a separate version of Office from
Microsoft has announced some truly important improvements in what you get with Office 365 Home, Personal and University plans. The Home plan will be available for six family members instead of five. How Microsoft calculates use of Office software is changing and for the better. All these changes apply from
Microsoft is rearranging, rerouting, it’s ‘Roadmap’ for the future of Office into a merged ‘Roadmap’ for Microsoft products including Windows and Office. The Office 365 Roadmap is joining with Windows, Azure and other products to become the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (more like a multi-lane superhighway with complex interchanges) Artists impression
Microsoft has released their Whiteboard app for Windows 10. While it’s better than last year’s preview app it has a lot of problems and a fatal flaw which makes it impossible for anyone except those with a childlike trust in Microsoft. We were harsh about the preview version, it was
If you get an error message when trying to activate Microsoft Office, settle in for a difficult time. Microsoft doesn’t make activation easy to understand, let alone fix activation problems. Office activation is where newly installed Office software is authorized by Microsoft’s servers. Without activation the software only has very
When you buy Microsoft Office there’s no CD or DVD with the software to install. The vital thing you’re getting is the Product Key. The Product Key is that the 25 character code which unlocks or activates the software. This applies to both Office 365 ‘subscriptions’ or single-purchase Microsoft Office packages.
The latest Office 2016 Insiders release version 1808, Build 10730.20030 shows off some upcoming additions to Outlook, Access, Project and Visio Outlook – block forwarding in meeting invitations When making a meeting invitation in Outlook, go to Response Options and deselect ‘Allow Forwarding’ to stop that invitation being forwarded to
