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• Ten stunning features in Microsoft Word

  Posted on October 2, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Microsoft Word has been around for so long, it’s easy to forget how great it really is.

  If you ask Microsoft about great Word features, they’ll drag out a list of recent innovations (starting and ending with “AI” and plenty of “cloud” in between). My own “stunning features” are things we take for granted, with some tips to make better use of them.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.40.0, 2023-10-02).

  Microsoft 365 Art, Collaboration, Indexes, Newsletters, Styles, Voice input, Word

• New fonts and templates, but with traps

  Posted on September 4, 2023 at 02:45 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.36 • 2023-09-04

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Whenever you start a new document by clicking “Blank” (or “New”) in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook, you’re almost certainly using Microsoft’s default templates and fonts.

  Microsoft has started pushing changes to those starting “blanks” for Microsoft 365 in a very special way that adds little compatibility traps for Office 2021/2019 as well as earlier versions.

  You’ve probably heard about the change in default templates and the arrival of the new Aptos font family. What I’ll explain here is the true scope of those changes and how they are quite different from past Office template and font changes.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.36.0, 2023-09-04).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Microsoft 365 Aptos, Cloud Fonts, Excel, fonts, Microsoft Office, Newsletters, Outlook, PowerPoint, Styles, Word

• Microsoft 365: Year in review

  Posted on December 26, 2022 at 02:44 CST by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Let’s take a minute to check the rearview mirror and review what’s happened this year with Microsoft Office. We’ll also peer over the horizon to speculate about 2023.

  There were obvious (and not-so-obvious) changes to Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365. I’ll look at just some of the changes. They might not be the most hyped changes coming from the never-ending road that is Microsoft marketing, and some of them might be overlooked but yet interesting.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.52.0, 2022-12-26).

  Microsoft 365 Clipchamp, Designer, Excel, Microsoft 365, Newsletters, Office 365, PowerPoint, Sketchup, Teams, Word

• Why would you use OneNote at all?

  Posted on November 21, 2022 at 02:42 CST by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  ONENOTE

  

  By Mary Branscombe

  If you’ve never seen the point of a digital shoebox for notes, here are some ways of putting OneNote to use that could change your mind.

  From the feedback I get when I talk about OneNote, it’s clear that there are plenty of devoted fans and heavy users out there. But I also get questions asking why you should use OneNote, and what it’s good at.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.47.0, 2022-11-21).

  OneNote Excel, Newsletters, Notes, OneNote, Organization, Word

• MS Word and Google Docs now play nicely together

  Posted on August 19, 2019 at 01:15 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  PRODUCTIVITY

  By Lance Whitney

  Just because you need to edit and share documents with someone who uses Google Docs doesn’t mean you have to renounce Word. It’s easy to work in both worlds. Here’s how.

  You’ve always used Microsoft Word to create and edit your documents. Over the years, you’ve become comfortable with its many tools, capabilities, and peccadillos. But now you need to collaborate with others who rely on Google’s productivity apps.

  Does that mean you have to adopt Google Docs as your default word processor? Not at all!

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.29.0 (2019-08-19).

  Office News AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Collaboration, Google Docs, sharing, Word

• Office 2016 patch KB 3114389 may be causing Word and Outlook to crash

  Posted on March 27, 2017 at 14:55 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I just got a report from an old friend, GW:

  KB 3114389 may be causing Outlook to crash. We are pulling it now to check, it might be linked to software or an ATI graphics card.

  It’s Office 2016 (not 365).

  Can you confirm?

  Office Patches/Security KB3114389, Office 2016, Outlook, Word

• Microsoft’s latest Word security hole, KB 2953095, is part of an on-going embarrassment

  Posted on March 25, 2014 at 21:46 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Has everybody forgotten that RTF – the sticking point in the latest zero-day, and dozens of zero-days before it – was invented and controlled by Microsoft?

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Office Patches/Security 0day, KB 2953095, RTF, Word, Zero Day
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