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
Although the internet has become an essential part of business, not all businesses have shifted over to the cloud-based Office 365. Some are still using standard old Office software that’s not powered by the cloud. Those businesses are the target market for Office 2019 for Mac, coming sometime in the second half of this year. … Continue reading
Office has gotten a refresh that changes a number of things about the suite of productivity apps. A reporter for The Wall Street Journal finds these changes mostly for the positive, bringing the long-running software bundle a more modern, usable interface. To help you sort through the new interface, he’s posted a video that shows … Continue reading
When it comes to changes to Microsoft Office, evolution is the key word. Being a suite of apps that’s been around since the 1980s, the software is always in a state of evolution–and never more so than now. One of the biggest changes coming to Office is Fluent Design, a new, simpler, better-looking interface that lets … Continue reading
Skill Set Navigation allows students to move directly from one interactivity to the next in SIMbooks, Lessons and SIMpaths. Once the student has opened a new Show Me, Guide Me, or Let Me Try interactivity in a SIMbook, Lesson, or SIMpath, the Skill Set Navigation feature will be displayed in the upper right corner of … Continue reading
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Business customers are the first to get a glimpse of Office 2019. That’s because Microsoft has just released a preview of the next incarnation of the productivity suite. The preview includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Project, Visio and OneNote, but only for Windows 10, and only for customers who aren’t running Office 365. From … Continue reading
The world is an imperfect place, and sometimes things go wrong. This even applies to your Office documents. So if you’re struggling to open a document, or your Office apps keep crashing the moment you try to start them up, you may want to enter Safe Mode to get your information out or to see … Continue reading
Microsoft Office may have been kicking around on computers since the 1980s, but even though we’re a few decades removed from those glory days, knowing your way around the software suite is no less necessary than it’s ever been. The Daily Beast has a rundown of three reasons you still need Office skills in 2018. … Continue reading
The internet can be a dangerous place. Hackers and generally bad people often try to get into your accounts to access sensitive information or to lock down your computer and demand payment to regain access. To make your Office files and emails more secure against hackers and bad guys, Microsoft has begun offering file protection … Continue reading