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View all →July 23, 2018
How To Fix Track Changes in Microsoft Word 16 for Mac Reverting to “Author” [VIDEO]
Is your author or user name showing as "Author" in your Microsoft Word for Mac when you edit & track changes & not your actual user name? Here's how to fix!
Read more →January 19, 2018
How To Create a “Work” Menu in Office 2016 & Office 365 of Pinned Documents
In previous versions of Microsoft Office for Mac, you were able to create something called a "Work" menu. In Office 2016/Office 365, you can no longer do that. But, there is a way to use similar functionality to get the same results. It's easy and this article shows how to do it.
Read more →March 6, 2015
How To Fix Repeating Black Boxes in a Row in Microsoft Word
How to fix repeating black boxes that appear in a row on Microsoft Word. What causes them and how to stop them from happening.
Read more →November 8, 2012
How To Find Where Outlook Stores Temporary Attachments – Ones that Don’t Appear in “Recent Items” in Microsoft Office
Here's the scenario. You receive an email attachment in Microsoft Outlook. You open that attachment directly from the email message, make a bunch of edits (and perhaps save them along the way) and close your Office document. Then a while later, you want to go back to that document, only to find that it does not appear in your "Recent"…
Read more →November 8, 2010
A Convergence of Offices – Office for Mac 2011 & Office 2010 for Windows
I must admit, I’ve been pretty lucky when it comes to getting early access to the latest versions of Microsoft Office. Earlier this year, I participated in a program set up by Microsoft called “Office 2010 Real Life Stories”. Leveraging the success of that program, I was able to get involved in the tail-end of the Office for Mac 2011…
Read more →January 21, 2010
Microsoft Wants YOU to Test Out Office 2010 Beta on a Loaner Laptop
A very cool program from Microsoft just came across my email and I thought that it was important to share with my readers. Essentially, with this program called the "Microsoft Office 2010 Real Life Stories", you are loaned a laptop PC (a Dell Studio 17 running Windows 7) that has Office 2010 Beta installed on it and all that you…
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