The latest Preview version of Outlook 365 for Windows includes a cloud storage option for settings. Which settings are being saved? Customers have long wanted the ability to share Outlook settings, especially Signatures, across different installations of Outlook. That’s now coming though the vital details aren’t easily available. In recent
It’s easy for forget when your Microsoft 365 (Office 365) plan is up for renewal or even which plan you’ve purchased. These are vital points if you want to avoid being overcharged for Microsoft 365 renewals, which is what Microsoft will do if you’re not careful. Go to https://office.com and
A new Windows 10 update includes fixes for some Office related bugs for Word, Excel and Outlook. The patch is called KB4568831 released July 31, 2020 . It’s for the latest Windows 10 May 2020 release (aka ‘2004’ or ‘Build 19041.423’). It’s a large update which fixes many different Windows
Getting a refund on an Office 365 /Microsoft 365 plan isn’t easy but can be possible depending on the reason for cancellation and your local consumer laws. There’s a lot of misleading or out-of-date information on the web, including details from Microsoft itself. Here’s the hard information we’ve been able
Many people talk about what’s possible in getting a refund of Microsoft 365 plan but it’s mostly copied from other social media or forums and some completely wrong. We’ve gone looking for Microsoft’s real rules for cancelling and refunding a ‘subscription’ they are quite different from what’s commonly ‘known’. Zombie
The Immersive Reader features of modern Word 365 are also available in Microsoft Teams and Word Online (browser based Word) to view documents and messages. Look for the Immersive Reader option on the menu for post threads. It’s also available on the View menu for any Word documents opened in
An unfixed Outlook 365 bug can delete messages before you get a chance to see them. Microsoft has been ‘investigating’ for about two weeks with no fix. The only saving grace is that it’s a relatively uncommon use of Outlook and not a default setup. Even so, any bug which
Word 365 and Word 2019 for Mac have the same Read Aloud option that’s in other Word releases. Word 2016 and earlier have other options to speak the words in a document. Word 365 and Word 2019 Read Aloud starts from the Review menu. That opens a control panel with
Customers trying to cancel their recent Microsoft 365 plan might see a totally bogus message which wrongly claims that a cancel and refund isn’t possible. A thread on Microsoft ‘Answers’ includes a web page image from a customer trying to cancel Microsoft 365 Family. Microsoft had auto-renewed the plan but
@mentions can be very handy at ‘tagging’ people into an online conversation but they can also be a damned nuisance. Here’s how to disable @ mention in Outlook 365 for Windows. Microsoft has added @ mentions throughout the Microsoft 365 services including Teams and Office document collaboration. It’s great for
Too many people report problems cancelling Microsoft 365 trial subscription. Here’s the steps to stopping the trial and what to do if cancelling doesn’t work properly. Microsoft has offered a free one-month trial of Office for a long time and for all that time there have been problems. People try
Office-Watch.com is always on the lookout for ways to save money on buying Microsoft Office. Here’s a summary of the tips we’ve discovered over the years. Microsoft 365 Family (with six users) is the main seller and you can buy/renew it for less than the official price. Formerly Office 365
Outlook is finally getting some better start-up and reopening windows options though not perhaps as much as regular users are hoping for. Outlook 365 for Windows is getting an option to reopen windows that were live when the program closed. That means open emails, meetings etc can reappear automatically when
If you’d like to make your social distancing sign stand out, check out some of these examples using animals and objects to explain the distance needed. And we have some more simple template Word signs for our newsletter readers. Here’s a simple example from the Sydney University Veterinary Hospital Use
PowerPoint 365 way back to PowerPoint 2010 all have a ‘text to speech’ or ‘Speak’ feature to read aloud the text in a slide. It’s hiding away behind the ribbon but works fine once you’ve found it. The PowerPoint Speak or Real Aloud feature is similar to the Speak option
Excel can speak the numbers, dates and text in cells. It’s a feature that’s been hiding in Excel since Office 2007 through to the latest Excel 365 for Windows. Speak in Excel is like Word’s Speak but with a few useful spreadsheet options. The audio options are mostly intended for
Getting started with Word’s footnotes and endnotes. Footnotes is one of those Word features that’s been around for a long time and so it often ignored in all the hoopla about new features. In this article we’ll have a close look at Footnotes and Endnotes. In Word there are Footnotes
How to make a computer setup suitable for the elderly or infirm. Something that’s simple ‘turn on and it’ll work’ and needs little or no action by the recipient or their carers. Bill Chubb wrote to us with his solution for keeping in touch with his wife in a nursing
Microsoft has made a major blunder with the July patches for Office. An update can crash Outlook for Windows entirely and the reason for the problem makes the bug especially humiliating for Microsoft. We’ll explain Microsoft’s blunder, what you can do if affected and how to avoid the buggy patch.
Read Aloud is the newer and better form of the old Speak feature from Word 2016-2010. It’s available in Word 365 and Word 2019. Read Aloud has more controls than the older Speak feature and it appears in more places within Word. The voice selection and settings in Windows are
The Excel team has joined the current ‘Cake’ meme with a new Cake() function in Excel. Hilarity ensues … Source: Twitter Ho ho, very funny, it is to laugh. Most people took the message in good spirit with one person implementing it in VBA That code really works. ChrW() returns
Microsoft continues to tinker update the Comments part of Word with yet more changes coming in Word 365. We’ll explain the new Comments view plus look over some of the Comments features from recent years. At last, users get some control over how comments appear. Not a lot of control
2020 will be remembered for many things (big sigh) but from a design viewpoint, it could be the Year of the Icon. Many of those graphics are available either in Office directly or imported from elsewhere – we’ll show you both. Everywhere you go there are signs reminding us of
The Office.com home page is being updated or rather rearranged. The changed page has been described as ‘beautiful’ and ‘great’. The changes are gradually rolling out to enterprise Office 365 customers, presumably consumer Office 365 Home/Personal users will see the change a little later. The current Office.com page looks like
