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Pretty much the same here in Australia.  We use Tap & Go for any purchase without needing to enter a PIN, originally up to a maximum of $100.  When Covid-19 hit, this limit was raised to $200 – shops did not want their staff handling cash which had been who-knows-where.  Above $200 you can still tap, but the terminal will ask for a PIN.

Cheques here are pretty much old technology.  They are still usable, but rarely used.  I have not received or written a cheque for years.  Any payment due to me (such as tax return, medical insurance refund) goes directly into my bank account.  Any invoice I receive will include the vendor’s bank account details and I can do an online transfer from my account to theirs via my PC browser (I never do anything financial via my phone).

We also have a facility called BPAY (which I think comes from “bill pay”)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPAY.  Regular billers (such as utility companies) have a Biller Number and they assign to each customer a very long Reference Number (essentially a customer number).  You log in to your bank account and can opt to make a payment via BPAY.  Once you have entered BPAY details for a particular vendor, the bank stores the details so you don’t have to enter them again for subsequent payments.  BPAY has become more popular since many shops and other vendors started passing on to customers the “merchant fee” charged to them by CC companies (there is no fee to payers for using BPAY).

It has been a long time since I paid cash anywhere.  While I still carry some bank notes in my wallet for emergencies (the moths really fly out when I open it!), I don’t carry coins anymore.  Vending machines, parking meters and parking stations (in my experience) all accept Tap & Go.

LH

Edit:  Just found out that the $200 Tap & Go limit was indeed temporary, and has now gone back down to the original $100 limit.

Also we apparently don’t do mobile cheque depositing via phone (although you can do this via an ATM), mainly because nobody much uses chequing anymore, so not worth the banks’ effort.

 

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I have only recently come to OneNote for a specific purpose, to replace the Journal function in MSO Outlook which was deprecated some time ago and is gradually getting harder to access (no doubt it will completely disappear at some stage).

My main issue with OneNote concerns the table format I need.  I currently have four pages in use (in the one notebook), all formatted as tables.  The problem is that the rightmost column of these tables in which I store (sometimes lengthy) text entries, does not wordwrap at the right border of the table.  Instead it just expands that column of the table out to the right and I have to drag the border back to where I want it and manually add newlines to the text.  Columns to the left seem to wordwrap OK.

Is there any way to fix the rightmost column border and get the text to wordwrap at that border?  I appreciate that an auto-expanding column may be useful in some cases, but I just find it frustrating.

Another issue is more of an annoyance.  I understand that OneNote auto-saves – but how often?  Other programs auto-save, but also allow you to manually save (usually Ctrl-S) at any time.  OneNote does not seem to offer this option.  After entering something long or complex, being able to save immediately via Ctrl-S gives me confidence that the new data is safe.  In fact, I find myself doing Ctrl-S by force of habit in OneNote even though it probably does nothing.

Thanks.

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I too use POP3 to access my Gmail account using Outlook 365.  It stopped working for me a couple of months ago – up until then all the advice I received said that I didn’t have to do anything since I was on Outlook 365.  Not so.

I think that Gmail only continued to work on 365 if you used IMAP (in fact when setting up an Outlook 365 connection, Outlook assumes you are using IMAP – you have to intervene manually to change to POP3).

I read through all the Google references about this, but they were (to my aging brain) as dense as mud.  And the references were circular – one would point to another which would point back to the first one.

There were mentions about upgrading to 2FA, but I couldn’t see how this would work in practice.  Outlook logs in to Gmail periodically throughout the day – how would it apply the second factor on top of the usual password each time?

Anyway after about a week I was getting nowhere, so I decided I had nothing to lose, and I went ahead and set up 2FA.  But before I could access email again, I had to obtain a password for the Outlook app (unique to my PC and that Gmail account).  I think maybe it needed 2FA just to verify my setup in order to grant the app password.

In any case, I got the app password, used it to replace my existing password and suddenly I was back in business!  Everything works again as it always has.

So in summary, despite confusing documentation (to me at least), it all boils down to two basic steps:

1. Implement 2FA;
2. Use it and your old password to obtain an app password, then use that to access your Gmail account.

If you have more than one Gmail account accessed via Outlook, I expect that you will have to do this for each account.

HTH,
LH.

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Just found this by Diane Poremsky: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/i-received-an-email-from-google-with-title-on-may/4c62a835-2f82-4be4-97fd-e6e3170c2e62

Outlook 2019, 2021, and 365 all support oAuth2, so you don’t need allow less secure apps enabled – other apps will need 2-step authentication enabled.

So it seems that I don’t have to do anything as 365 is already supported (which is what I originally thought).  Which begs the question: why send me an email specifically quoting my GMail address and suggesting that I had to do something?  Could it really be that they were harking back to my old Win7 system with Office 2010 which I replaced several years ago?

Anyway, we’ll see on 30 May (or actually 31 May in my part of the world).

(Not sure if I have done the above quotation correctly, so please excuse if it comes out wrong!)

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Just tried removing my gmail account from Outlook 365, and then adding it again as a new account.  It went through the usual process including asking for my password.  The only password I had for this account was the old one, so I entered that again.  Now I am back to where I started.

I use POP3, the only option that works for me.  Have always done so, even though IMAP seems to be more fashionable these days.  But among the other options were “Microsoft 365” and “Google”.  Don’t know what “Microsoft 365” does, but I did try the “Google” option (instead of POP) on the offchance that this might have been how to “Sign in with Google” – it said “Getting things ready”, then hung for about 30 seconds (blue circle), then the whole process terminated without any outcome indication.  So I just went back to “POP”.

Maybe Paul T has the right idea – wait until 30 May and see what happens.  Although I don’t like the prospect of losing access to emails via Outlook and having to resort to webmail (all my work is centred on Outlook and Office).  Surely I can’t be the only Outlook user with a gmail account who has received the email from Google?

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I have a gmail address which I access through Outlook 365 (which is up to date with last month’s updates).  I recently received an email from Google saying that from May 30 my gmail address (which it quoted specifically) will no longer support my Outlook connection because it considers Outlook to be “less secure”.  Then, further down, it says that I should switch to “Outlook 365 or any other email software where you can sign in using Sign in with Google“.

I am very confused.  The email contains links to some Google websites that just seem to refer to each other without explaining exactly what I need to do (if anything).  My Outlook 365 does not contain any option to Sign in with Google that I can find, and I don’t use 2FA (or “two-step verification” as they call it, which I assume is the same thing).

The email seems to want me to take some action to keep accessing my gmail address through Outlook, while suggesting that Outlook 365 meets their requirements.  Seems contradictory.

One possibility: before switching to my current Windows 10 machine 2-3 years ago, I used Outlook 2010 on a Win 7 machine.  Haven’t used it since.  Perhaps that’s what this email is about?  Would they remember that far back?

I could take a punt that Office 365 will keep working after May 30, but I don’t want to risk it while I am unsure.

I went through something similar a year or so ago with my Yahoo email addresses – it was a nightmare (for my aging brain at least).  Now it seems to be happening again!  Any advice appreciated.

Sorry if this has wandered a bit off topic.

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Same here, but with MS365.  Wondered what was going on!

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Correction:  “WINLIB.DLL” should have been “WWLIB.DLL”.

 

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So the build shown in the File/Account display belongs to the .EXE file (eg, WINWORD.EXE) and the File/Account/About dialogue refers to an associated .DLL ??

In my MS365 suite (up to date), the former build is 20132 and the latter (for Word WINLIB.DLL) is 20128 – so this seems to make sense.

But all my Office programs (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word) show the same pair of builds: 20132 and 20128 respectively, and never seem to change between monthly updates.  All the .DLL files that I could find for the Office products (other than WWLIB.DLL) seem to have builds of 20008!

What am I missing?  What is the real build for my MS365 install and its individual apps – 20132 or 20128?

Thanks in advance.

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Susan,
Thanks for your response.  The TenForums thread is mainly concerned with the size of a particular window – the Registry Editor window.  However, one posting in the thread caught my eye: “close Window with CTRL + Top Right Cross to exit and that will set the default size”.

Doing this with a few application windows seemed to work, but as the problem seems to be random I will have to monitor it over a few days (and maybe with a reboot in between).  However, you would have to do this on an app-by-app basis.  I was hoping that there was a global setting that would allow all apps to open their windows to the size and location as they were when last closed.  If such a thing exists, it would no doubt be a registry setting.

This was the way it used to be pre-Windows-10 (and maybe also in early Win 10 releases).  I got Win 10 on a new PC – I think it was Win 10 2004, but I am not sure now.  And I can’t remember if this problem was in existence then (I suspect not).  I can’t be the only one to have this problem (or maybe I am) – so there must be a simple solution (he said, hoping :-).

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Charlie,
Thanks for the response.  I checked the properties of several app windows – they were all set to “Normal Window”, and the other options were Maximized and Minimized as you said.

“click on View at the top left and then go down to Refresh and click on that”
Didn’t quite follow that: if you mean “View” menu, not all applications have such a menu, and where they do the menu items are different depending on the app; if you mean the left end of the title bar, clicking on that drops a menu that includes items: Restore, Maximize, Minimize and Close.  Maximize and Minimize do what you would expect.  Clicking Restore takes the window from Maximized to, in my case, the small 2″ square box or thin top-right strip.  Restore is then disabled, but you can double-click in the title bar to toggle back and forth between maximized and the smaller window.  In any case, I didn’t find a “View” item with a “Refresh” option.  Would you please mind clarifying?

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Worked for me (FF 96.0.1.8848). And I am on the other side of the world! However I noted that switching between the four CAMs I would sometimes get the error message you reported. All I had to do was click the CAM button one or more times (usually once was enough) to get the live pictures back.

Tried it also on Google Chrome (97.0.4692.71). For me, it failed to display any of the CAM pictures (just the error message), no matter how many times I clicked any of the CAM buttons. So it seems that it is not a Firefox problem – more likely a glitchy setup at the website.

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I installed the latest update to 20H2 yesterday.  I also use PDF-XCHANGE as my default application for PDFs.  After the update, it is still the default.  I use Firefox as my default browser, with Chrome on hand should something not render properly in Firefox.  After the update, Firefox is still the default.  I did not use the old Edge, and I am not planning to use the new version.

It’s early days yet, but so far all the files that I have opened have used my default programs.

 

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The “04” in “v2104” means April.  It was released in early April.  Now that we are into May, I am expecting v2105 to be released shortly.

With MSDEFCON now at 4, I installed MS 365 v2104 yesterday with no problems (so far), followed later in the day by the April Win 10 20H2 updates (no problems there either, so far).

Following the installation of each MS 365 monthly update, I disable updates until the next time MSDEFCON goes to 3 or above.  Then I re-enable updates and select Update Now.

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