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AutoSave and AutoRecover sound like the same thing, but in Microsoft Office they do very different jobs, and only one of them is a real save. If you use Word, Excel or PowerPoint every day, knowing the difference is the line between recovering a crashed document and watching hours of work disappear. This guide breaks […]

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The latest Microsoft 365 update has broken Quick Steps in classic Outlook for Windows. If your Quick Step contains an action that can’t be applied to the selected message, the whole button turns gray on the ribbon and refuses to click. The bug arrived with Outlook 365 classic for Windows version 2512 build 19530.20138 and […]

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Microsoft is again making Copilot annoying for their Microsoft 365 customers by adding a Copilot ‘bug’ into the workspace of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  We explain how it works, why Microsoft is doing this and the little choice customers have to get rid of it. If you haven’t already, you’ll soon see this bug (Copilot […]

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Office Watch’s new ebook Write better & faster with any AI is out today. The plain English guide to using AI well and wisely. You stay the author. AI does the heavy lifting: generating options, suggesting structure, rewriting for tone, summarizing and expanding. If you’ve tried ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude or Gemini and the text reads […]

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The original example is a good demo of Copilot in action, making a useful sheet in a few minutes instead of an hour or more.  It quickly does the job and with the Lambda() code it can be extended to other sheets or rows in the current workbook. But it’s very much a ‘one-off’ fix […]

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