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Teams for Mac Spellcheck Not Working

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Teams for Mac Spellcheck Not Working KB ID 0001842

Problem

I’m running Teams for Mac (Microsoft Teams Classic) and this has happened a couple of times now. My spelling is terrible, so I tend to just type furiously and then go back and fix my spelling mistakes. As with all ‘office based’ application it helpfully underlined all the typos in red, then USUALLY I can right click and correct them.
Each time it breaks I can see what has been misspelled but the right click menu does not appear, like so

Solution: Teams for Mac Spellcheck Not Working

The first time this happened I simply changed languages from English (US) to English (United Kingdom) and the problem went away. But it returned today.

I had to run the following command (Warning: This will drop all your Teams personal settings and you will need to re-authenticate). Firstly quit Teams if it’s still running, then execute the following command, (in Terminal)

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rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams

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Launch Teams, if required re-authenticate and (if required perform MFA) Teams should restart. Now your spellcheck should work.

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Ads.txt Broken (https://linkprotect)

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Ads.txt Broken KB ID 0001811

Problem

Here at PNL we had a problem with the sites ads.txt file recently. My ad vendor was telling me that it was being corrupted and my host was adding links that looked like I was behind a Barracuda. As I build the server from the ground up I knew this NOT to be the case.

Solution: Ads.txt Broken

The first thing I did was check the file I uploaded (from my LAPTOP before it was uploaded) and…

Which was exactly the same as when I checked the online version. So I was pretty sure I’d uploaded a broken one, I asked for a ‘known good working one‘ When the Engineer on the call said “Sometimes when these files are send via email a Barracuda will alter them”.

Penny Dropped

When I checked, I’d replied from my work email and the good folk at Newormedia had replied to that address, and indeed my coporate email  address is behind a Baracuda. I asked them to send the file to my personal address, and hey presto!

Here’s a before and after for clarity

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Massive shout out to Kawal at Newormedia!

Outlook (for macOS) Notifications Stopped Working

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KB ID 0001684

Problem

Like most of us I spend my working day based around Outlook calendar meetings and entries, I’ve even got birthdays and anniversaries in there. So recently when the notification pop-ups stopped working, it was a potential problem. Occasionally I could hear the notification ‘sound’, but I had to open outlook and change to the notification window to see them. When you are as absent minded as me, that’s a recipe for disaster.

I don’t know if it was a macOS update or a Microsoft Office update that had broken it, (or if I’d done something stupid myself!).

Solution

I tried a few solutions but this is the only one that worked. Click the ‘Apple Icon’ (top left) > System Preferences > Notifications > Scroll down and select Outlook > On your keyboard press the ‘Delete/Backspace’ key, to remove Outlook > Close system preferences.

If Outlook is open close it > Open Outlook > At the notification prompt > Click ‘Allow’.

The problem ceased.

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Google Chrome – Cannot play embedded .wmw or .mpg/.mpeg

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KB ID 0000184 

Problem

I’m a big fan of Google Chrome, i’ts fast, and clean, and it does exactly what it says on the tin! I had noticed, I had a problem playing embedded video though.

As I use this format on PeteNetLive it was my only gripe, (well that and syncing bookmarks, but I cured that with Xmarks). Took me a bit of searching but I got it fixed in the end.

Solution

1. Download THIS (Yes I know it says Firefox – trust me!).

2. Close all your browser windows.

3. Run the file you downloaded above.

4. Now you can play embedded video.

 

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iPhone Lockscreen – Camera Icon Stopped Working ?

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KB ID 0000595 

Problem

A while ago Apple put a shortcut to the camera on the iPhone’s “Lock Screen” that you could access by quickly pressing the home button twice, (you can also access the iPod controls this way). Then you can use your “volume up” button to fire the camera shutter.

This is a good feature if (like me) you have a PIN number on the phone and you need to take a photo in a hurry (e.g. a PC has just gone BSOD and you need to get the error message).

But for a while I’ve not been able to use this feature, If you press the camera icon it simply bounces up and down.

Solution

It turns out Apple have simply changed the way it operates. Press the home button twice (as before), but this time don’t press the camera icon “Tap and Sweep” it upwards.

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