A long-standing bug in Microsoft Word quietly breaks your document navigation when you place Heading styles inside a table. The Table of Contents shows all your headings correctly, but the Navigation Pane silently drops any heading that lives inside a table cell. The same broken behavior ripples into PDF Bookmarks and the Insert Link dialog. […]
As long time space and SF nerds, Office Watch can’t resist putting the look of 2001: A Space Odyssey into Word documents and PowerPoint slides. We’ll show you how to make a ‘close match’ using just the fonts and features in Microsoft Office. We’ll also explain the details behind that choice and some alternatives, both […]
Character Map is a Windows feature that’s very useful for Microsoft Office users. It lets you insert symbols and, importantly, find them which is not possible within apps like Word. Windows Character Map has been around for as long as we’d like to remember and it’s mostly done right. If only the equivalent in Office […]
Google has a color selector among the many features in their home page. It’s free, works in any browser and it’s easy to copy color codes into Office. Search for ‘Color picker’ or https://www.google.com/?q=color+picker then move the two circles to choose the exact color and shade you want. The HEX and RGB color codes are […]
Microsoft 365 does an online licence check at least every 30 days. If your device will be offline for weeks, how can you make sure you have a full 30 days licence before disconnecting from the Internet? Here’s how to update your Microsoft 365 licence before going offline. Office 365 / Microsoft 365 software and […]
