Microsoft launched a new College Offer, giving US college students who buy a new qualifying Windows 11 laptop a bundle worth more than $500 in extras . The package includes one year of Microsoft 365 Premium (with Copilot AI built in), one year of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and a
The new ChatGPT Images 2.0 is worth a look. Instead of jumping straight to pixels, it reasons through your prompt first and can even search the web before generating a single image. If you have ever given up on AI images because the text was garbled, the results were inconsistent,
If you have two lists in Excel and need to know what they share or where they differ, you are in the right place. Whether you are cross-checking a customer list against an invoice log, comparing a product catalog to a stock count, or reconciling two batches of data, Excel
Microsoft has confirmed it will end the Access Database Compare tool in June 2026, removing it from all supported versions of Office including Microsoft 365, Office 2024, Office 2021 plus Office 2019 . The deadline is June 20, 2026. If database comparison is part of your regular workflow for version
Microsoft has overhauled the way it delivers updates to Microsoft 365, replacing its familiar rollout process with a new three-track system called Frontier, Standard, and Deferred. The change launched without warning and currently affects organizations using Microsoft 365 Copilot. If you manage Microsoft 365 for your company, this changes how
Microsoft will stop issuing security updates for Office 2021 on October 13, 2026, roughly five months from now, and there is no paid extension available. After that date, any newly discovered vulnerabilities in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook will go permanently unpatched, leaving home users and businesses increasingly exposed to
Microsoft 365 announcements come thick and fast, but they share a frustrating habit: they rarely tell you whether you actually get the feature being hyped. Whether it’s a sweeping change to how Microsoft 365 updates are delivered, or Copilot gaining the ability to switch on Track Changes in Word, the
Microsoft is ending the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (SAEC) for Microsoft 365 Apps on July 14, 2026. From that date, any organization still using the six-monthly update schedule will be automatically moved to Monthly Enterprise Channel (MEC) updates, whether they want to move or not. This affects business and enterprise Microsoft
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Outlook Lite for Android on May 25, 2026. After that date, the app will open but it will not connect to any mailbox, meaning email, calendar, and contacts all go dark until a user switches to the full Microsoft Outlook Mobile app. The retirement
The Question Exclamation Mark ⁈ is a single character that combines the energy of both punctuation marks into one, perfect for expressing surprise mixed with a genuine question. Whether you are working in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook on Windows or Mac, there are several quick ways to insert it,
Word’s standard Highlight Color button on the Home tab does the job for quick work, but it caps you at a mere 15 colors. The Draw tab’s Highlighter pen is a far more powerful tool hiding in plain sight. Turn on one setting you get the clean word alignment and
Microsoft Word has a built-in setting to enforce or ban the Oxford comma, also called the serial comma, and most people have no idea it exists. Whether you swear by that final comma in a list or consider it unnecessary clutter, Word can automatically flag any sentence that breaks your
Microsoft Word has a built-in grammar setting that decides where commas and periods should sit when they appear next to closing quotation marks. American English puts them inside the quotes. British English puts them outside. The Punctuation Required with Quotes setting in Word’s Grammar options lets you enforce whichever rule
Multi-level lists in Microsoft Word look simple on the surface but hide a lot of complexity underneath. Whether your numbered headings keep resetting for no obvious reason, or you just want to understand why linking list levels to Heading styles makes everything more reliable, this guide cuts through the confusion.
If Word’s Navigation Pane and Table of Contents ever show different things, you’re not going crazy and Word isn’t broken. The reason is a distinction Microsoft rarely explains clearly: Heading styles and Outline Levels are two separate properties that usually go hand in hand, but don’t have to. Understanding which
Microsoft’s Copilot Terms of Use are already under fire for labeling the AI “for entertainment purposes only,” but that headline-grabbing clause is just the beginning. Buried deeper in the fine print are six more warnings that shift legal risk squarely onto you, the user. From indemnifying Microsoft against claims arising
Microsoft has upgraded the Accessibility Assistant in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 to detect color contrast issues on transparent backgrounds, not just solid-colored ones. Until now, if your slide text sat on top of an image, gradient, or layered visual, PowerPoint’s checker could miss real readability problems entirely. The tool now
Google has quietly upgraded its AI Pro plan, bumping the included cloud storage from 2TB to 5TB at no extra cost, while keeping the monthly price at US$19.99. The extra space can be used across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. It’s a well-priced combo of more cloud storage and
The famous Earthrise photo is not what Apollo 8 astronauts actually saw through the window. The widely shared version is cropped, rotated and color-adjusted from the original. In fact, there were three separate Earthrise photos taken during the December 1968 mission, two by astronaut Bill Anders in color and one
Copilot can now make direct edits to your documents in the Word for iPhone/iOS appwithout you ever leaving the app. No more copying text back and forth between Word and a separate AI chat window. Open a document in Word for iPhone, tap the Copilot icon, type what you want
Microsoft’s legal terms do say that Copilot is for ‘entertainment purposes only’ but that doesn’t apply to everyone. We explain that the “Copilot Terms of Use” are different for individuals and businesses, though Microsoft only has itself to blame for the confusion. Microsoft’s own terms of service contain a striking
Your Outlook (classic) PST and OST data files are the heart of your email on Windows. They store every message, calendar appointment, contact, and task on your computer. Most people never think about them until something goes wrong. When classic Outlook crashes, search breaks, or data goes missing, a corrupted
NASA’s Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman was less than 90,000 miles from Earth when he ran into a problem that millions of office workers face every week: he had two Microsoft Outlook’s and both stopped working. About an hour later, ground controllers resolved the issue remotely. If you’ve ever wondered
Microsoft is said to be dialing back Copilot in Windows, so it’s only fair to ask, will Microsoft Office get the same treatment? As Copilot’s promises and over-hype collide with reality, Office users can only hope for better AI that’s not ‘in your face‘. Microsoft now claims it will dial
