The Microsoft 365 Workplace Discount Program (WDP) cuts 30% off Microsoft 365 Premium, Family and Personal for employees of companies and government agencies that buy Microsoft volume licenses with Software Assurance. Formerly the Home Use Program, the WDP is now simple to claim: enter your work email, verify, and link
Microsoft lists a Microsoft 365 Canadian military discount in its own legal Terms and Conditions, sitting right beside the well known US Military Appreciation Subscription. There is just one problem. Nobody can actually buy it. CANEX, the Canadian Forces Exchange System named directly in Microsoft’s terms, says it has no
New Outlook is slower and far hungrier for memory than classic Outlook, and new testing shows just how bad the gap is. Click a new email notification in Windows 11 and new Outlook can take around 10 seconds to show that message, while classic Outlook opens it almost instantly. New
Excel lets you pick which AI model Copilot uses, and the list keeps growing: various GPT options, two Claude Opus and the heavyweight Claude Fable 5 (maybe). If you do not understand the difference, you are not alone. This plain English guide explains what each Copilot AI model for Excel
Copilot in Word, Excel and PowerPoint lets you pick which AI model handles each task, but the menu is confusing and changes all the time. So what is an AI model, why does Microsoft offer several, and which Copilot model should you actually choose? This plain English guide explains the
The Excel SUMIF function adds up only the numbers you choose, not everything in a range. Plain SUM() totals every cell with no filter, which is fine until you need the sales for one person, one month or one product. SUMIF fixes that by letting you set a condition first,
Outlook gives you two built in ways to reuse email text, and neither one is good enough. Mail Templates can build a whole new message but cannot help with replies. My Templates saves reusable snippets but strips out all formatting, so no bold, no headings, no links, no images. If
Outlook gives you two built in ways to save reusable email text, and both are frustratingly limited. My Templates only stores plain text, with no bold, links, images or tables. The other way works for new messages but not replies. So if you send the same content over and over,
Looking for the best AI for spreadsheets? We asked the four major AI sites, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot, to build the same spreadsheet and the results split cleanly down the middle. But Claude and ChatGPT show an instant spreadsheet preview with every answer, so you can check
If you bought Office 2019 for Mac outright, circle July 13, 2026 on your calendar. On that date Microsoft flips your paid apps into “reduced functionality mode,” really a kill switch that lets you open, view, and print in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook but blocks all editing and new
Microsoft has been crowing about its latest AI innovation, Microsoft Scout. Scout is the company’s newest AI agent, and it works very differently from Copilot. A lot of the hype is vague and full of Redmond’s latest favorite buzzwords. Here is a plain English explanation of what Microsoft Scout does
The much anticipated Copilot “Move to Ribbon” option has finally arrived in Microsoft 365 for Windows, and unlike the Mac version, the Copilot button really does return to the ribbon. The good news is that the choice is sticky, so it applies to all future Word documents instead of being
The Microsoft 365 military discount is one of the best kept secrets in Microsoft pricing, and there are actually two of them. US and Canadian service members, veterans, and their families can buy the full Microsoft 365 Family plan for far less than the $129.99 civilian price, year round, with
Microsoft’s much hated Copilot button finally has a way to get out of your way, and we’ve found the first real world example running on a live machine. The promised “Move to Ribbon” choice has arrived in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but it’s not quite what Microsoft pledged. Instead of
Copilot inside your Microsoft 365 apps can’t reliably tell you which version, build, or platform it’s running on. Ask Copilot which Microsoft 365 version you have and you get one of two answers: a vague “I don’t have access to that,” or a confident reply that’s flat wrong. That’s not
The FIFA World Cup 2026 runs from June 11 to July 19, spanning 16 host cities across the US, Canada, and Mexico with 104 matches spread across four time zones. Keeping track of every kickoff time is a perfect job for Outlook’s calendar, which automatically converts match times to your
Section breaks are the hidden cause behind some of Word’s most frustrating layout problems: random extra pages, headers that change unexpectedly, and pages that refuse to switch from portrait to landscape. Most Word users have never heard of section breaks, let alone seen one, because Word keeps them invisible by
Excel formulas translate automatically when you share a workbook across languages, and most users never know it’s happening. Whether a colleague opens your file in French, German, Spanish, or Italian, they see the formula names in their own language. This quiet translation system is why an Excel workbook built in
Every Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file you save is actually a ZIP archive packed with small XML files. That means you can crack open any .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx file using nothing more than Windows Explorer or a free compression tool, no special software required. Whether you want to see
A bug in Windows 11 25H2 is silently redirecting A3 print jobs to A4 when printing through Microsoft’s Universal Print service. You select A3 (or other non-default size) in the print dialog, the job goes to the printer, and default size A4 comes out instead. No error message. No warning.
Microsoft Word knows more slang than you might expect. Words like zillion, jillion, squillion, gazillion, bazillion, and oodles are all recognized as correct spellings in Word’s US English dictionary, so you won’t get the dreaded red squiggly line if you drop one into a document. Word’s thesaurus even offers alternatives
Every year after the Scripps National Spelling Bee, we test the winning and finalist words against Microsoft Word’s spell checker to see how many get the dreaded red squiggly line. In 2026, Word had its worst performance ever, recognizing just 4 out of 21 words correctly for US, UK, and
Microsoft Word has not gone ‘woke’. Despite press stories claiming Word enforces ‘politically correct’ language, the truth is far less dramatic. The Inclusiveness grammar checks behind the headlines are optional, off by default, and have been part of Word since before 2020. They flag words like mankind, postman and showgirl
Microsoft Word 365 has a new overpaste feature that turns selected text into a clickable hyperlink in a single paste, no dialog box required. Instead of pressing Ctrl + K, pasting the URL, and clicking OK, you can now copy a link, highlight the text you want to convert, and
