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   TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 17 October 2016

   TidBITS Staff

   Microsoft Office 2016 15.27 and Office 2011 14.6.9 -- Microsoft has
   issued version 15.27 of its [1]Office 2016 application suite with
   improvements to Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint. The OneNote
   note-keeping app (also available as a free standalone app from the
   [2]Mac App Store) now corrects spelling mistakes by using suggestions
   from the spell checker and enables you to find and fix accessibility
   issues in your notes with Tools > Accessibility Checker. For Office 365
   subscribers, PowerPoint now lets you trim unwanted content from the
   beginning or end of audio or video files, and you can use CONCAT or
   TEXTJOIN to shorten text formulas in Excel. On the [3]security front,
   both Office 2016 and Office 2011, which Microsoft has updated to
   [4]version 14.6.9, resolve memory corruption vulnerabilities. ($149.99
   for one-time purchase, free update through Microsoft AutoUpdate,
   [5]release notes, 10.10+)

   [6]Read/post comments about Microsoft Office 2016 15.27 and Office 2011
   14.6.9.

   OmniFocus 2.7.2 -- The Omni Group has released [7]OmniFocus 2.7.2,
   reverting a change made in version 2.7 that made TaskPaper text the
   default pasteboard format (see '[8]OmniFocus 2.7,' 22 September 2016).
   The task management app gains a new Copy as TaskPaper menu item that
   includes full TaskPaper details and copies the children of a selected
   item if they are visible. The update also includes the TaskPaper tags
   @autodone and @parallel tags when copying, fixes problems with column
   visibility, eliminates several crashes, and ensures that syncs
   triggered over the local network using Bonjour no longer show as
   'Received Push' in the logs. ($39.99 new for Standard and $79.99 for
   Pro from the Omni Group Web site, $39.99 for Standard from [9]Mac App
   Store (with in-app purchase option to upgrade to Pro), 29.6 MB,
   [10]release notes, 10.10+)

   [11]Read/post comments about OmniFocus 2.7.2.

   Typinator 6.11 -- Ergonis has released [12]Typinator 6.11, a
   maintenance release for the text-expansion tool that fixes several
   bugs. The update provides a workaround for an issue that caused the
   abbreviations to stick around after expansion for some users in macOS
   10.12 Sierra, fixes a cursor-positioning problem in Microsoft Word,
   resolves an expansion problem in Mellel, improves the reliability of
   long-distance cursor moves, and adds support for the Shouxin input
   method for Chinese. ('¬24.99 new with a 25 percent discount for
   [13]TidBITS members, free update, 8.0 MB, [14]release notes, 10.6.8+)

   [15]Read/post comments about Typinator 6.11.

   TextExpander 6.1 -- Smile has released [16]TextExpander 6.1, adding the
   capability to use fill-in snippets with Apple's Dictation. The
   text-expansion utility also improves the Snippet Editor by enhancing
   drag-and-drop support, lets users preview a snippet before expansion
   with the new Preview button, speeding up the load time, and restoring
   Bold and Italic menu commands. The update also eliminates a fatal save
   error when the server invalidates a stored token, correctly handles
   HTML tags in fill-in defaults, and fixes localizations of Include in
   Inline Search. TextExpander 6.1 is available via a monthly or annual
   subscription, but Smile continues to offer [17]TextExpander 5 as a
   standalone app for $44.95 ([18]TidBITS members receive a 20 percent
   discount only on the purchase of version 5). ($40 annual subscription,
   $20 upgrade subscription, free update from version 6, 6.5 MB,
   [19]release notes, 10.10+)

   [20]Read/post comments about TextExpander 6.1.

References

   1. https://products.office.com/en-us/mac/microsoft-office-for-mac
   2. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id784801555?mt=12&at=10l5PW
   3. https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS16-121
   4. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54014
   5. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3193438
   6. http://tidbits.com/article/16830#comments
   7. http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus/
   8. http://tidbits.com/article/16778
   9. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omnifocus-2/id867299399?mt=12&at=10l5PW
  10. https://www.omnigroup.com/releasenotes/omnifocus
  11. http://tidbits.com/article/16828#comments
  12. http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/
  13. http://tidbits.com/member_benefits.html
  14. http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/history.html
  15. http://tidbits.com/article/16829#comments
  16. https://textexpander.com/
  17. https://textexpander.com/textexpander-standalone-apps/
  18. http://tidbits.com/member_benefits.html
  19. https://textexpander.com/help/desktop/releasenotes.html
  20. http://tidbits.com/article/16825#comments

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