A teenager from Auckland, New Zealand has won the World Microsoft PowerPoint championship for 2018. Tristan Mona beat over 760,000 other competitors from 100 countries in the finals held in Florida, USA. He’s the first person from ‘Ennzed’ to win a coveted Microsoft Office Specialist title. For his troubles, Tristan
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
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
Microsoft’s second quarter 2018 results came out with some pleasant surprises for the financial analysts. Both earnings per share and overall revenue beat market predictions. No wonder MSFT stock price went up 4 percent after the results went public. Office commercial products and cloud services revenue increased 10% mostly driven
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
The Information is reporting that Facebook is considering moving from Office 365 to Google Apps for their 27,000 employees. The report from two sources would mean a “180” by Facebook which moved away from Google to Microsoft Office 365 only two years ago. Follow us on Facebook, it just takes
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
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
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
Transform to Web Page is a new Word Online feature which promises more than it delivers. The deliberate implication of ‘Transform to Web Page’ is that you can save the document to web page to be hosted anywhere. It’s actually a link to Microsoft Sway, another online service. You can’t
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote are always available for you, even if the main Office for Window/Mac are broken or missing. Office Online is the alternative that you have as a standby when regular Office fails or isn’t available. As long as you have a browser and decent Internet connection,
For the first time in a decade, Microsoft is making substantial changes to the Office ribbon interface. But not to worry, the changes don’t appear to be enough to put anyone off Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. The existing ribbon is retained, that’s an important point that’s not emphasized enough
Modern Excel can grab information from multiple files in a single folder. Just open the worksheet, refresh the query and it’s up to date! This article is a condensed version of just one chapter in Real Time Excel – the new 2nd edition has a lot more detail and example
As usual, Microsoft has released non-security updates and bug fixes for Office 2016 and Office 2013 on the first Tuesday of the month. A few caught our eye: Late last year, Microsoft was caught out leaving a horribly vulnerable Equation Editor in Office for 17 years. A new patch restores
