First Look: The New Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter

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Back in late 2014, Microsoft released what we now know to be the best Miracast dongle in the market, the cunningly named Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter. Well, they’re back with a new version, and while I’ve been using it for the past week, it’s still a bit early for a final verdict.

The culprit, as it turns out, is the pre-release Windows Insider builds of Windows 10 Mobile which seem to be wrecking havoc with what should be a more seamless experience. The issue is one that Microsoft has apparently documented: The full-screen trackpad-like Continuum control you get in Windows 10 Mobile is jittery, making it hard (sometimes impossible) to select things on the wirelessly-connected display.

The Windows 10 Mobile version of Groove, running fullscreen via the new Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter

So let’s not worry about that one too much.

From a high level, there’s seemingly not much new with this second version of the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter. It looks and works much like its predecessor, but with one notable change: Where the original adapter had a longish (OK, 2.5-inch) “body” behind the HDMI end of things, the new version has smaller “bodies” on each plug (HDMI on one side, USB on the other), ostensibly because this will make for an easier fit in the slim space behind many HDTVs. (Microsoft also provides a short USB extender so you can reach an out-of-the-way USB port.)

Microsoft Wireless Display Adapters: The new one (on top) and the original model (bottom).

Beyond that, nothing seems to have changed. But that’s why this is a “first look” and not a review: I need to let my Windows 10 Field Guide co-author Rafael Rivera get his hands on this thing and find out what Microsoft really changed under the covers. As you may know, Rafael maintains the definitive list of Miracast adapters, and the original Microsoft adapter is still the best choice. But Rafael has theories about how Microsoft might be enhancing (even extending) Miracast with this new dongle, so we’ll see how that pans out.

In the meantime, and with the exception of Windows 10 Mobile, for which I think we can blame quirks in the Insider builds, the new Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter works as expected.

Testing with my Surface Book, connectivity is fast and reliable. You can use the Connect tile in Action Center to utilize the HDTV connected to the adapter as a secondary display, and you can use the Project pane (WINKEY + P) to determine whether that second display duplicates what’s on the built-in display, extends that built-in display, or replaces the built-in display.

With a compatible Windows 10 Mobile handset, you can of course use Continuum—in fact, have to use Continuum—rather than the old remote display capabilities we had with Windows Phone OS (and still have with lesser Windows 10 Mobile handsets). This provides a two-screen experience where you see a Windows 10-like desktop on the connected HDTV and your normal Windows 10 Mobile UI—or, that trackpad-like screen—on the phone. Again, this wasn’t working well for me, because Insider program.

It’s worth noting, too, that Miracast works with Android as well. To test this, I fired up my Nexus 6P and … nothing. Researching this, I see that the Nexus 6P is not included on Google’s list of Miracast-compatible devices, though older Nexus devices do make the cut. With the 6P, I can see all of the Chromecast devices in my home. But not Microsoft’s Miracast adapter. (I believe Google is essentially pushing customers to Chromecast here.)

Because packaging is always interesting.

So I tested it instead with my wife’s Samsung Note 4, which has a Screen Mirroring option in the notification slide-down. This works as expected—and just like using Miracast with non-Continuum-capable Windows phones—where what you see on the phone’s screen is replicated on the remote display too. The performance was excellent.

If you are using it with Windows 10—on a PC/tablet or on phone—you will need to get the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter app, which you can use to configure and update the adapter. (This is true even on Windows 10 Mobile, which has additional controls around Continuum.)

Assuming that the new Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter works as well—from a performance and latency perspective—as its predecessor, this one should be a no-brainer: It costs less the original and is better designed to fit in the tight spaces behind many HDTVs. But I will need to see what Rafael uncovers—and make sure it really does work well with Windows 10 Mobile—before I can say for sure. For now, this one gets a qualified thumbs-up. But I intend to use it a lot more in the future to be sure.

Microsoft Announces the February Updates for Office 365

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Once again, Microsoft has announced a sweeping set of Office 365 updates that span the business and consumer versions of the service. This months updates are for Office Mobile for Windows 10 PCs and tablets, Android, iPhone and iPad, as well as Office 2016 for Windows and Mac.

Yep, just keep track of this stuff is nearly impossible. But here’s what’s new (excluding a few things I previously wrote about):

Annotate with ink on Office Mobile for Windows 10 PCs and tablets

Word, Excel and PowerPoint Mobile on Windows 10 PCs and tablets is picking up new tools in the Draw tab so you can use your finger or pen to naturally write, draw and annotate. This feature is coming first to Office Insiders, Microsoft says.

Pin documents to Start on Windows 10 PCs and tablets with Office Mobile

Now, you can pin Word, Excel or PowerPoint Mobile documents to the Windows Start experience. Just tap and hold on any document name in the Recent list and choose Pin to Start.

Insert camera images using Office Mobile for Windows and Android

You will be able to capture images with your device’s built-in camera and insert them directly into Office Mobile documents. This will ship first for PowerPoint for Office Insiders (on both Windows and Android) and will be coming soon to Word and Excel.\

Office for Mac updates

Office 2016 for Mac is being updated with Morph for PowerPoint, the ability to customize the Quick Access toolbar in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and a faster new updating scheme.

Add, remove, edit, backup, restore Stored User Names and Passwords in Windows 10

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The Stored User Names and Passwords in Windows lets you securely manage user names and passwords as a part of your profile. It lets you automatically enter saved user names and passwords for various network resources, servers, websites and applications, to authenticate yourself. In this post we will see how to add, remove, edit, backup, restoreStored User Names and Passwords & Credentials in Windows 10/8/7.

Stored User Names and Passwords

To directly access the Stored User Names and Passwords Control panel applet, via WinX menu, open Command Prompt (Admin), type the following rundll32 command and hit Enter.

rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr

The Stored User Names and Passwords box will open.

Here you will be able to see the saved passwords and user names.

To add a new credential, press the Add button and fill in the required details as follows:

To delete a saved password, select the credential and click on the Remove button.

To edit a password, click the Edit button. Here you will be edit the details.

It could be a Windows logon credential or a Website or Program password.

It is always a good idea to back up the stored user names and passwords. To do this, click on the Back up button to open the following wizard.

Select and browse to the back up location, click Next and follow the wizard to its completion.

Should the need arise, you can always restore the backup, by clicking on the Restore button and browsing to the backup file location and selecting it.

Microsoft Office 2016: Word, Excel, PowerPoint Quick Start Guides

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Microsoft released Office 2016 earlier this year with some interesting Office 365 features, apps and improved user-interface. While the new Office apps come with a simpler interface, some still might need the user guides. In this post we will learn about some official Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2016 Quick Start Guides.

Microsoft Office 2016 Quick Start Guides

Soon after releasing the latest version of Office 2016, the company has posted some Microsoft Office Quick Start Guides for an introduction to the basics in each of its apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for your Windows PC. The guides are available for online read as well as for download in the form of PDF files. You can either download these guides on your PC or check them online.

Word 2016 – Quick Guide

The Microsoft Word guide posted by the company includes every small detail like creating a new document, finding recent files, customizing Word, changing the format document and style, reviewing and tracking the changes in your document and lots more. The guides include each and every aspect of Word, may it be the basic features or the rarely used ones. With proper screenshot for every single feature, this quick guide is very helpful for the new users of Word.

Excel 2016 – Quick Start Guide

Not every Windows user is acquainted with the MS Excel and its features and this Excel Quick Start Guide is especially for such users. The guide include every single feature of MS Excel including how to create a file on excel, view recent files, insert functions, build formulas and much more. This guide helps users to get most out of the latest MS Excel 2016 and its improved features.

OneNote 2016 – Quick Start Guide

This quick guide focuses on OneNote 2016 and its features. It gives the detailed instructions about how to use OneNote, create notes, access them anywhere on any device, tag selected notes, creating hyperlinks, organize the notes in tables, save the notes automatically and share them with others, and more. The guide also lets users know how to work collaboratively on OneNote 2016.

PowerPoint 2016- Quick User Guide

Get the detailed user manual and instructions about the latest version of PowerPoint 2016 from this Quick User Guide. Right from the instructions about how to create a PowerPoint presentation to change the layout, keep the slide notes handy, format shapes with precision, to share your work with others, everything is mentioned here in this Quick User Guide.

All of these guides are very elaborated and come with real helpful screenshots, showing each and every feature in detail. These Quick User Guides by Microsoft are available for download in the PDF file format or also available in Sway versions. Also the company has released the Office 2016 Quick Start Guides for Mac and Office Mobile Quick Start Guides.

How to Display or Format Number as Currency in Excel 2016 on Windows 10

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Microsoft Office Excel 2016 in Windows 10 can be configured to display a number with the default currency symbol. In addition to the options for currency symbol, the format The format has options for the number of decimal places and negative number handling too. The case in point here is how you add a currency symbol before a number in the cells since, simply typing a symbol sign at the beginning of a currency value will not recognised as a number.

Let’s see how to do it.

Format Number as Currency in Excel

Excel users wanting to display numbers as monetary values, must first format those numbers as currency.

To do this, apply either the Currency or Accounting number format to the cells that you want to format. The number formatting options are visible under the Home tab of the ribbon menu, in the Number group.

Next, for displaying a number with the default currency symbol adjacent to it, select the cell or range of cells, and then click Accounting Number Format Button image in the Number group on the Home tab. (If you want to apply the Currency format instead, select the cells, and press Ctrl+Shift+$.)

If you would like to change other aspects of formatting for your selection,

Select the cells you would want to format.

Next, on the Home tab, click the Dialog Box Launcher adjacent to Number. See the screenshot below.

Then, in the Format Cells dialog box, in the Category list, click Currency or Accounting.

Thereafter, under the Symbol box, click the currency symbol that you want. If you do not wish to display a monetary value, simply chose the None option. If required, enter the number of decimal places that you want for the number.

As you make changes, it will reflect in the number in the Sample box, indicating changing the decimal places affect the display of a number.

How to revive your Windows 10 installation with System Image Recovery

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In a recent series of blog posts, I've shown you how to reset your Windows 10 system using the Keep My Files option and the Remove Everything option. While the latter will allow you to essentially start from scratch and the former will allow you to install a new copy of the operating system while retaining your data, you may also want to create a backup of your full system—data and applications—just in case you encounter a catastrophic hard disk failure. If you do, you'll be glad to know that the tried-and-true System Image tool still exists in Windows 10. As long as you have created a system image of your hard disk, you can use the System Image Recovery tool from the Recovery Drive to restore your entire system in the event of a hard disk failure. In other words, if your hard disk goes south, you can purchase a new one and use the System Image Recovery tool to restore your system to the state it was in when you created the image.

Now, keep in mind that for this type of backup to be truly effective, you need to regularly create new system images so that you'll have a recent version of your system if you need to recover it.

In this article I'll show you how to use the System Image Recovery tool from the Recovery Drive to restore your hard disk. As I do, I'll show you how to create a system image on an external hard drive.

What you need

More about Windows

To run the System Image Recovery tool as I'll describe in this article, you'll need to have created a Recovery Drive as I showed you in the article Be prepared: Create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive. You'll also need an external drive or a set of optical discs on which to create a system image of your hard disk. (Unfortunately, you can't create a system image on a USB flash drive.)

You can find 1TB and 2TB external hard disks in brick-and-mortar and online computer stores for under $100. For example, at the time of this writing, you can pick up a Seagate 1TB external USB hard drive at Best Buy for $59.99 or a Western Digital 1TB external USB hard drive on Amazon Prime for $53.99.

For this article, I'm using a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 1 TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, which I picked up Best Buy several years ago.

Creating a system image

As I mentioned, to use the System Image Recovery tool you must have created a system image of your hard disk. So I'll begin by walking you through that process.

To create a system image in Windows 10, you'll start by accessing the Backup And Restore (Windows 7) tool. To do so, select Settings from the Start Menu/Screen. When the Settings screen appears, select the Update And Security tile, choose the Backup tab, and select Go To Backup And Restore (Windows 7), as shown in Figure A.

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Figure A

Accessing the Backup tab from the Start screen is easy.

In a moment, you'll see the Windows Backup And Restore (Windows 7) tool. Select the Create A System Image command on the left side of the screen, as shown in Figure B.

Figure B

Select the Create A System Image command to get started.

When the first screen in the Create A System Image wizard appears, you will need to choose where to create the system image. For my example, I am going to create the system image on an external hard disk, so I selected the On A Hard Disk option, as shown in Figure C.

Figure C

On my test system, I'll create the system image on an external hard disk.

Click Next, and you'll be prompted to confirm your backup settings, as shown in Figure D. On this system, two other sections of data will be backed up in addition to the main partition: the EFI System Partition and the Windows Recovery Environment (System). As you can see, the system is indicating that the image will take up 50 GB of space.

Figure D

The Confirm Your Backup Settings page shows you which drives will be backed up.

When you're ready, click the Start Backup button and the backup operation will commence, as shown in Figure E.

Figure E

Click the Start Backup button to launch the backup operation.

Once the backup is complete, click the Close button. Now that you have a System Image backup, you're ready for an emergency situation.

Launching System Image Recovery

In the case of a hard drive failure, you can restore Windows 10 by running the System Image Recovery tool from the Recovery Drive. After your system boots from the Recovery Drive, connect your external hard drive containing the system image backup. When you get to the Choose An Option screen, select the Troubleshoot tile as shown in Figure F.

Figure F

When you are prompted to choose an option, select the Troubleshoot tile.

From the Troubleshoot screen, shown in Figure G, select the Advanced Options tile.

Figure G

From the Troubleshoot screen, select the Advanced Options tile.

When the Advanced Options screen appears, select the System Image Recovery tile as shown in Figure H.

Figure H

From the Advanced options screen, select the System Image Recovery tile.

At this point, you'll be prompted to choose the operating system that you want to recover, as shown in Figure I. It may seem redundant to select the OS when performing a system image recovery operation, but you must click the Windows 10 tile to get started.

Figure I

Click the Windows 10 tile to start the recovery process.

The recovery process

As soon as you click the Windows 10 tile, you'll see the Re-image Your Computer wizard. The tool will immediately locate the external hard disk containing the system image, as shown in Figure J. To continue, click Next.

Figure J

The Re-image Your Computer wizard will locate the external hard disk.

The Re-Image Your Computer wizard will now open the screen shown inFigure K. This screen provides several options.

Figure K

The second screen in the Re-Image Your Computer wizard provides you with a number of options.

If you're restoring to the same hard disk, you don't need to select the Format And Repartition Disks check box. (For my example, I selected the check box just to see whether that changed the process in any way. Other than possibly adding a little time, the steps and the end result were the same.)

If you're restoring to a new hard disk, chances are that the Format And Repartition Disks check box will be selected by default and will be unavailable. If that is the case, there is nothing to worry about as long as the new hard disk is of the same or greater capacity than the old one.

If you have multiple drives you can click the Exclude Disks button and choose the drive(s) you want to leave untouched. You can also click the Advanced button to open a dialog box that offers two additional options. The Automatically Restart check box will be selected by default and you can choose to enable a disk check operation as a part of the procedure. (If the options in this dialog box are unavailable, you may have to install drivers for the disks you're restoring by clicking the Install Drivers button.)

When you click Next, you'll see the confirmation screen of the Re-Image Your Computer wizard, as shown in Figure L. To continue, just click Finish.

Figure L

To complete the Re-Image Your Computer wizard, just click Finish

Almost there. But we still have to work through one more confirmation, shown in Figure M. Just click Yes to get started.

Figure M

Click Yes in the final confirmation dialog box.

In a moment, the restore operation will begin and you'll see a progress bar that keeps you apprised of the status of the restore operation, as shown in Figure N. Depending on how big your hard disk is, the restore operation can take a few hours.

Figure N

A progress bar shows the status of the restore operation.

When the restore operation is complete, you'll be prompted to click the Restart Now button. If you happen to be away from your desk when this occurs, your system will restart on its own, as shown in Figure O.

Figure O

If you're not at your desk when the restore operation is complete, your system will restart on its own.

When, your system restarts, you'll see the familiar logon screen.

10 Things: How to use Word templates effectively

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Templates let you reuse the same structure and styles in numerous documents. Unfortunately, templates are misunderstood and underused because successfully implementing them requires a bit of specialized knowledge. In this article, I'll share a few tips that will improve your template experience.

Specific instructions are for Word 2016 but differences in earlier versions are insignificant. There's no downloadable demonstration file for this article.

These tips also apply to Word 2003 templates, which you'll create and access via the File menu. You'll find most options via the Options command on the Tools menu.

1: Create templates from scratch

When you apply a template to a document, Word applies the template's styles and structure to the new document. Everything in the template is available in the new document. This inheritance is good but can have unexpected consequences if you base a template on an existing document.

There are two ways to create a template:

• You can open a new document, modify it as needed, and then save the file as a template file.
• You can save an existing .docx document that contains all the styles and structural components you want in the template as a template file.

The latter approach can offer unpleasant surprises because you don't always remember everything that's in the existing .docx file. In contrast, a template built from scratch contains only those elements you purposely added. For this reason, I recommend that you create a template from scratch and copy styles from existing documents into the template. (I'll show you how to do that in a minute.)

2: Leave Normal.dotx alone

Because of the inheritance behavior inherent in templates, I recommend that you not alter Word's Normal.dotx template. Every change you make will end up in subsequent files, including templates. You might think that's what you want, but in truth a small change can have unintended consequences that are difficult to troubleshoot months down the road. I advise that you leave Normal.dotx in its out-of-the-box condition as much as possible and create custom templates as needed.

Many users customize Normal.dotx and never suffer for it, so it's a rule you can break if you work alone and understand the potential for errors. Documenting your changes is a good idea.

3: Eliminate location angst

Users often worry about where Word saves template files. It's not a secret, but Word does attempt to corral templates to create a more seamless experience for you. When you choose Word Template (*.dotx) from the Save As Type dropdown, Word automatically stores the template in a designated folder (Figure A). You can save the template someplace else, but I don't recommend doing so; let Word handle things for you and you'll experience few (if any) problems.

Figure A

Word stores templates in a special folder.

4: Change the default folder

If you must control where Word saves your custom template files, change Word's default template folder setting as follows:

1. Click the File tab and choose Options.
2. In the left pane, choose Save.
3. In the Save documents section, change the Default personal templates location folder (Figure B).
4. Click OK when you're done.

Figure B

You can change the default template folder.

Changing the default folder keeps Word in the loop so that implementing templates continues to be a seamless process. If you manually save a single template to a different location (which I don't recommend), that template won't be easily available to you as other templates are.

5: Apply a template

The best time to apply a custom template is when you create the document using the New option (on the File tab). Word displays two template categories: Featured and Personal. To choose one of your custom templates, click the Personal tab and then click the custom template you want to apply. Word opens a new document based on the specified template.

After applying the template, all the styles in the template are available in the new document. But don't ignore the Featured templates. You might find exactly what you need and save yourself a lot of time.

6: Use the Personal list

Word lists files you've saved in the default template folder (#4) in the Personal templates (#5) list. If you don't see a specific template listed and you want easy access via the Personal link, you must save that template in the default folder. I'm repeating myself—but for the best template experience, you must let Word control the process.

7: Copy an existing style

You can build a style from scratch or you can copy it from an existing document. Simply select a paragraph that carries the style you want to copy and copy that paragraph to the Clipboard. Then, access the template file and paste the styled content from the Clipboard into the template file. Select and delete the content and save your template file. The style remains in the template file even though you deleted the styled content. Note: This copy tips works for all files, not just template files.

8: Copy many styles

Copying a style provides a quick way to get an existing style into a template, but it would be tedious if you wanted to copy several. To include multiple existing styles from a template, use the Styles Organizer as follows:

1. Click the Styles group dialog launcher to open the Styles pane.
2. Click Manage Styles (Figure C).
3. In the resulting Manage Styles dialog, click the Import/Export button to display the Style Organizer (Figure D).

Figure C

Click the Manage Styles option.

Figure D

Copy styles from one file to another.

The list on the left displays styles in the current document; on the right you'll see styles in the active template. Users often find this interface confusing because it's so flexible. You can close one or both files and open others—or not. In a nutshell, you want the file that contains the styles you're copying and the template to which you're copying those styles. Select the style you want to copy (in the source file) and click Copy to copy that style to the template file.

9: Change the applied template

If you apply the wrong template or you need to apply a template to an existing document (instead of doing so when you create the document), do the following:

1. Click the File tab and choose Options. In the left pane, select Add-ins. From the Manage dropdown, choose Templates (Figure E) and click Go. Or if the Developer tab is available, you can click it and then click Document Template in the Templates group. (This is an easy way to learn which template is currently applied as well.)
2. Click Attach and Word displays locally stored templates.
3. Select the template you want to apply and click Open.
4. Checking the Automatically Update Document Styles option (Figure F) will update styles in the current document with styles in the template of the same name.
5. Click OK.

Figure E

It's easy to attach a new template.

Figure F

Update styles automatically.

Attaching a template after the fact won't modify manual formatting. In addition, styles in the current document with no like-named counterpart in the template won't change.

Don't confuse the purpose of the Automatically Update Document Styles option with the Automatically Update option for styles. The latter option updates the underlying style to reflect manual formatting changes.

This option triggers one of Word's most misunderstood behaviors so I recommend using it with great care and informed intent. Otherwise, you may find all your similarly styled content updated when you meant to update only the selected text—and you might not know how to undo the change.

10: Insert the template name

If you work with multiple templates, you might find it handy to print the template name in a document. You can do so by inserting a field, as follows:

1. Position the cursor where you want to insert the template name.
2. Click the Insert tab and choose Field from the Quick Parts dropdown (in the Text group).
3. In the Field Names list, select Template (Figure G).
4. Choose a formatting option and check the pathname option as required.
5. Click OK.

Figure G

You can display the template's name in your document.

Bonus tip: Manage multiple users

Templates sometimes change for no apparent reason. This usually happens in a corporate environment where templates are stored on a server for everyone's use. Here's a simple example of what can happen:

• Joan creates a letter based on Letterhead2.dotx.
• Later, John does too, but he updates a style or two in Letterhead2.dotx.
• Joan opens her letter later and finds the formatting has changed.

That's because Joan's letter reflects the changes John made to the underlying template, Letterhead2.dotx. Fortunately, there are ways to manage templates used by multiple users. The best way is to train users not to alter templates. Unfortunately, users make changes without realizing it. To avoid problems, make templates read-only as follows:

1. Use File Explorer (or My Computer) to locate the template file on the server.
2. Right-click it and choose Properties from the context menu.
3. On the General tab, check the Read-only option (Figure H) and click OK.

Figure H

To protect a template, make it read-only.

Anyone can make a template read-only to protect it from unwanted changes. If you need to modify the template, simply repeat the process to uncheck the Read-only property before opening the template.