Office 2016 for Windows will soon support scalable vector graphics (SVGs). Preview/Insiders can try them now and it’ll be available to all Office 365 subscribers in 2017. That means you’ll be able to make your documents look even better with vector-based SVG files that won’t pixelate when increased in size.
A story in the UK’s Daily Telegraph got us thinking about some of the traps when buying Microsoft Office with a new computer. The Telegraph reader bought a new computer and was told by staff that Office 2007 wasn’t supported on the new computer. The reader was sold, as a
Here’s a ‘no fuss, no muss’ way to grab the latest exchange rates and use them in Excel. No need to lookup a rate and type it in, let Excel do all that work for you. You might expect Excel to do this out of the box. After all, Microsoft
Microsoft has announced that they’ll stop updating the Outlook spam filter (“Smartscreen”) at the end of this month – on 1st Nov 2016. This might be a worry, but not a disaster, for most Outlook users and we’ll explain why. What’s Happening From 1st Nov 2016 there will be no
Microsoft is gradually adding to Office some interesting new Ink related features; Replay and Math. Rewind and Replay Until now drawings or ‘ink’ in Office documents has been static and fixed, much like real ink. OneNote Mobile for Windows 10 is the first Office app to make ink additions animated.
A new report shows that Excel is causing errors to creep into genetic studies because of data conversion problems. Excel tries to figure out the type of information you are typing or importing into a worksheet. Those rules work most of the time, but not always. If Excel converts a
Sometimes we wonder what happens in Microsoft development meetings because the software we get from those discussions seems so out of touch with reality or even sense. Today’s example comes from Outlook for Windows and it’s curious ‘one way’ translation feature. Office for Windows has good language translation options, though
It’s that time of year again and Office-Watch.com has a little fun seeing how Microsoft Word’s dictionary compares to the winners of the Scripps (US) National Spelling Bee. Surprisingly, Word did better in 2016 than past years, despite the words being harder. Still, no chance of Word reaching the finals
How to take advantage of Microsoft’s greedy little trap for Office 365 subscribers. When you setup a new Office 365 ‘subscription’ you’ll probably see this offer on the My Account page. ” Turn on automatic renewal and get an extra month free” Enjoy uninterrupted access to your Office applications and
Microsoft has today dropped their promise of ‘unlimited’ OneDrive storage for Office 365 customers. Their lame excuse for the reduction is an insult to their customers. “Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away” What Office 365 subscribers (Home, Personal and University) now get: 1TB of OneDrive storage, down from ‘unlimited’ storage.
Editing an image in Office is not a way to hide the original details or redact a photo. Images in a document can be fully redacted by replacing the image with black box (or other full color block). But what if only want to hide/redact part of the image? That’s
The US Scripps National Spelling Bee is over for another year with another tie between two amazing young people. Both winners are impressive to us mere mortals but also compared to Microsoft Office. As we have for the last few years, we’ve made a list of the championship words to
The latest financial disclosures from Microsoft show that the move to annual ‘subscriptions (rentals) mean a price increase to customers of up to 80%! This is a long way from the common media narrative, based on dubious calculations, which says that Office 365 ‘subscriptions’ are better value. Microsoft CFO is
ZDnet is reporting that an ebay merchant is offering an Office 365 Personal subscription for $29.99. The ebay item is here and we’re wary about it. Many have been sold (1,154 as we type this) and there’s good feedback both for the merchant and the Office 365 purchases. An Office
Back in 2014, Microsoft made Office 365, including Office software, available to many US students. The same program is now available globally. If the school buys Office software for their faculty and staff, the students get free Office 365 accounts. The program now covers, among many, 1.1 million students in
Microsoft has released its results for the last quarter of 2014 (aka Q2 2015) with their push towards Office 365 subscriptions/rental annual fees growing strength. According to the company, there are now over 9.2 million people who have moved from the ‘single pay’ Office option to the heavily pushed Office 365
Microsoft has expanded the beta testing of Microsoft Office for Android to anyone with a compatible device. Not just the approved beta testers. But there’s a catch … you need a compatible Android device and not all Android tablets will qualify. Office for Android needs: An ARM based device (most
On the TV show ‘The West Wing’ news stories the administration wanted the public to overlook were released on ‘Friday Trash Day‘. In the real world, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has another term for the same practice. The NSA calls it ‘Christmas Eve’. It was on the afternoon of
Slow, but surely, the online version of Microsoft Office gets better. Word online will never have everything that Word for Windows or Mac does, but it’s becoming more viable for occasional users and as a backup in case your usual software fails. It also adds some interesting features that’s aren’t
A friend is expecting a parcel via Fedex and got the email shown below, so they wondered if it was really from the courier company or not. This particular email got past both the Gmail and Outlook spam filters. We thought it was a good example to use of the
John Harcourt-Rigg writes …. “Could you tell me why Microsoft do not offer a similar discount programme for users of Microsoft Office 365 that users receive in USA. That is a discount for: Serving Members, and retired Military Veterans Australian VETS have served side by side with USA veterans in
UPDATE: we’ve totally updated this article see How to get a refund of Office 365 With the release of the ‘free’ Office for iPhone/iPad apps with many editing features, there’s probably some unhappy Office 365 subscribers out there. If you bought Office 365 for the editing features in Office for iPad
We’ve already mentioned that the ‘free’ Office Mobile apps (for iPhone, iPad and soon Android) actually have some features that are only available to Office 365 subscribers … but what? The editing options available in the current apps is quite extensive and surprisingly generous. For most people, they’ll be able
Microsoft is having a good laugh having just fooled journalists and customers all over the world with their announcement of ‘free’ Office for iPad and iPhone. It’s not free at all. For as long as Office-Watch.com has existed (19 years now) we’ve known to closely read Microsoft announcements and press
