For anyone who isn’t a subscriber to Office 365 — Microsoft’s cloud-based, regularly updating suite of productivity apps — the company has launched Office 2019. It’s the latest annual update to the venerable collection of office software. Largely what it does is bring many of the features Office 365 users have gotten over the past … Continue reading
Microsoft is constantly updating and tweaking Office 365. It’s what you’d expect from an always-evolving online app. But it can be tough to keep a handle on what’s happening in the world of Office 365, so it’s nice to see monthly roundups of everything that’s new. MSPowerUser has the full rundown on August’s changelog. From … Continue reading
Microsoft has announced in a blog post that device limits for Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal customers will soon be a thing of the past. That means you’ll be able to use the online software suite on any device you want, including those belonging to friends and family members. From the blog: The … Continue reading
Here’s some great news to anyone who does interviews or records class lectures for notes: Microsoft will soon introduce an AI-driven feature that automatically transcribes video and audio files. We have yet to see the feature in action, so it’s anybody’s guess as to how foolproof the feature will be. Even so, it should save … Continue reading
Clippy was an animated paperclip that would appear in the corner of your Word documents and intrusively try to help you use the software in any way it could. People hated the thing, so Microsoft nixed it in 2001. But with a new addition to MyAnalytics, Microsoft is having another go at using software to … Continue reading
Starting next month, some Mac users with subscriptions to Office 365 won’t be getting any new features for the online software suite. Microsoft has announced that new feature updates will only be available for Mac users running the Sierra or High Sierra operating systems. Microsoft announced the change in a support document .”As of the … Continue reading
He’s 15 years old, and he just won $10,000 in the Microsoft Office World Championship. We’re talking about Kevin Dimaculangan, the teenager who performed better than any other at the yearly competition for creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. From Fortune: When Florida high school student Kevin Dimaculangan heard last year that one of his teachers was … Continue reading
An Office account might seem an unlikely target for scammers when credit cards and bank accounts are also potential targets. But the reason a crook might want to get into your account is to gain leverage over you with any sensitive documents they find. A new phishing attack has surfaced that uses Dropbox as a way … Continue reading
Office 2019 will be here before long, which begs the question: What kinds of features, updates, and changes can users expect from the next edition of the software? The Spectrum has published a full rundown on everything we know so far about Microsoft Office 2019. It covers the likely new feature, including Word’s dark theme … Continue reading
Microsoft recently introduced an updated version of its Accessibility Checker in Office 365. When enabled, the tool monitors your document in real time to make sure it’s accessible to people of all abilities. TechRepublic has some suggestions for making your documents accessible to as many people as possible. From TechRepublic, here are some of them: … Continue reading