The Care of ℅ symbol can be typed into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Care of ℅ symbol is one of those useful symbols you’ll never see on a keyboard and have to go hunting for. ℅ is used on envelopes
As a quick example of what’s possible, here’s a quick look at some photo editing options in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook emails. Since it’s Christmas, we’ll use one of the famous Apollo 8 Earthrise images. We’ve already talked about how Apollo 8’s Earthrise, as we know it,
Better to stick with a stable, known Microsoft Office instead of monthly updates with new and changed features. That rational customer approach isn’t understood at Microsoft who push the regular Microsoft Office 365 changes on the assumption that it’s a universal good which suits all customers. Brian X Chen in
Updating Office or Windows isn’t an easy choice, you’re taking a risk no matter what you choose. Star Trek fans know about these ‘no win scenarios’ aka ‘Kobayashi Maru’ At Office-Watch.com we’re often asked what to do about updating and, frankly, it’s hard for us to give a simple answer.
Microsoft has published an almost laughably revisionist version of how Patch Tuesday started and changed over 20 years. Called Reflecting on 20 years of Windows Patch Tuesday, it’s a highly selective and self-serving version of events to put it mildly. Speaking of ‘reflecting‘, you can insert your own ‘cracked‘ or
Microsoft has released a series of short and somewhat informative videos about their Copilot AI features coming to Microsoft Word. There are important details that are easy to miss in the video so we’ve added some still photos of features like changing the tone or style (including poem!), suggested prompts
Outlook for Windows data files (PST or OST) start with a maximum size of 50GB but they can be much, much larger if necessary. Here’s how to do it as we make sense of Microsoft’s out-of-date advice. Outlook for Windows use PST and OST files to save email, calendar, contacts
Microsoft Designer’s Generate Image feature has just received a big boost with the upgrade to Dall-E 3 ‘text to image’. That means a significant improvement in the quality of images made for you in Designer. That means the images made in Designer should now be more realistic, more detailed and
It seems the next version of Office will be out in 2024. If the latest leak from Microsoft holds up, Office 2024 will replace Office 2021. Some images posted on Twitter (X) by techosaurusrex show a screen from Word 2024 as part of a “Office 2024 LTSC Professional Plus 2024”
There’s a way for Microsoft Word to connect shapes with lines or arrows that remain connected when moved. We’ll explain the trick and why it’s needed in Word and Outlook but not other Office apps. As we’ve already explained, in Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher, you can connect shapes with lines
Microsoft Office can make drawings with linked lines or arrows between shapes that automatically change if the shapes are moved. Here’s how Office connectors work and the tricks to make connecting shapes work better. A little known but really useful part of the Insert | Shapes is the ability to
Türkiye is now the preferred name for the country Turkey. Here’s how to easily type Türkiye with the umlaut in Microsoft Office, Word and Outlook on Windows or Mac. It’s also a good example of the limits or traps in Word’s Autocorrect. A common trick for a change of name
Once you know the ‘secret’ shortcuts, it’s easy to type the umlaut vowels ä ë ï ö ü Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü in Word and Outlook but, alas, it’s not the same in Excel or PowerPoint. There are alternatives in Windows and Mac if you’re not using Word. There’s
Type the Satellite Antenna 📡 symbol/emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Satellite Antenna or Dish 📡 symbol can be used for modern television, radio, GPS or wireless broadcasting generally. Can be used with the Satellite 🛰 emoji or icon.
The Washington Post has a ten-tip etiquette guide to which we’ve added our Microsoft Office & Outlook specific suggestions. Check out Danielle Abril’s article at The Washington Post. Her recommendations are necessarily general so we’ll add more technical and specific comments for Office users. Consider not sending an email So
The Editor part of Microsoft Word has a feature that should have been in the Windows and Mac versions many, many years ago. Changing the style of writing that’s being recommended. Word’s Editor pane sometimes lets you choose the style of writing that suits the document. We were delighted to
There’s a really useful Outlook (Windows and Mac) feature that Peter (our Grand Poo-bah or Editor in Chief) uses regularly even though it’s hidden away in Outlook menu: Resend. ‘Resend this message’ opens a new copy of a sent message with all the same details filled in (To, CC, Bcc,
One bit of Microsoft hardware isn’t cool – literally. Their ‘Xbox Mini Fridge’ has been given a ‘Shonky*’ award by an Australian consumer group. The mini fridge used as much power as a full sized model yet could barely cool a drinks can in tests CHOICE (the Aussie equivalent of
Microsoft noted the 40th anniversary of Microsoft Word with a typically glossy and highly selective history plus some vague platitudes about the future of Word. Their graphic does show how far Word has come from its early days. Of course, plenty has been skipped over in this sanitized history. Like
If you know where to look, Microsoft Designer can make graphics big enough for a Microsoft Word page or PowerPoint slide in Microsoft Office, instead of the default social media sizes. We’ll explain how to resize to larger page formats including the missing page sizes. A concern with Designer is
Often you need to switch between windows of the same program, so there should be a quick keyboard shortcut to do that. Here are your options in Windows or Mac. Whether you’re moving between Word documents, Excel workbooks or PowerPoint decks or Outlook emails, the need is the same. You
Someone send you an audio or video file but it won’t play? There’s free software that can play any video, audio or music file, pretty much. VLC is a free, reliable and widely used audio and video player https://www.videolan.org/ it’s available for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and Linux. You
Insert the Satellite 🛰 emoji or icon into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. How Satellite 🛰 looks in different fonts. In Windows fonts only Segoe UI Emoji and Segoe UI Symbol have the Satellite emoji. As usual the Apple version
Word lists have more power and, let’s face it, confusion hiding under the menus. How to start a new list, continue a previous list, reset the numbering and trying to figure out how a list numbering has been messed up. Many questions arising from our article on Word Autonumbering. Many
