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Reminder: Students and teachers can get Microsoft Office 365 at no cost.

Posted on October 10, 2021

This is just a reminder that students and teachers can use Microsoft Office 365 for free thanks to an awesome program called Office 365 Education.

In a nutshell, if you meet the requirements of the program, you can download and run MS Office 365 on your PC, Mac and mobile devices without having to lay out any cash whatsoever.

There are no complicated hoops to jump through to sign up for the Office 365 Education program. In fact, all that’s required to qualify is a verifiable and valid school-supplied email address.

Truth be told, you don’t even to have go through your school to sign up since you can easily do it yourself once Microsoft has verified the email address you use to apply for the program.

This is what you’ll get if you qualify and sign up for Office 365 Education: [Read more…]

Q&A: Can I save Microsoft 365 files to my computer instead of OneDrive?

Posted on April 20, 2021

Question from Marge: I’ve used the desktop version of MS Office for years, but I recently switched to Microsoft 365.

It took me a few days to get used to it but I believe I’m going to like it ok. There’s one thing that I need help with though.

Every time I create a new document in any Microsoft 365 app and tell it to save the file it always saves it to OneDrive.

I don’t feel comfortable using online storage, for several reasons. Is it possible to make Microsoft 365 save my files to my computer’s hard drive instead of to OneDrive? [Read more…]

Microsoft adds Ransomware protection to Office 365 Personal users’ OneDrive storage

Posted on April 6, 2018

Ransomware is a type of virus that encrypts all the data on your computer’s hard drive or SSD and then demands that you pay a ransom to a hacker in exchange for the decryption key.

In other words, it holds your files and data hostage until you pony up the amount demanded for the ransom.

And the danger is very real. In fact, ransomware attacks are now one of the most common types of malware attacks being perpetrated on the public. [Read more…]