A critical security bug in Outlook has now been patched by Microsoft, about 11 months AFTER hackers started exploiting the vulnerability. This is truly a serious security problem and it’s important to update your Microsoft Office now. Even Microsoft rates this problem as Critical, this from a company that normally
A new-ish keyboard shortcut in Excel 365 (Windows/Mac) is very handy for pasting values into a cell or matching the destination formatting. A common Excel task is pasting content into a cell from non-Excel sources (a web page, document, email etc). Until now (and in Excel 2021/2019 etc) is quite
Microsoft is adding zoom shortcuts to Word for Windows and Mac to make Word more ‘browser like’ but to do that they’re changing long-standing keyboard shortcuts. These are keyboard shortcuts you might be using in a web browser and they already work for documents for Word in a browser. Zoom
Some basketball fans at Microsoft have released an Excel workbook to play mens and womens ‘fantasy’ college basketball with friends and family. Excel randomly allocates the 64 teams to your players who can see how the tournament progresses through the shared workbook. Even if you’re not interested in ‘college hoops’,
Excel has five different Pie Charts, here they all are, showing how to use each chart and tricks to make the charts look better. Microsoft has five Excel Pie Charts though one of them is really a donut/doughnut. Find them all at Insert | Charts; 2-D and 3-D Pie charts
There are several ways for an Excel table to be transposed (rows and columns) but none of the online suggestions work very well with tables. We’ve found a solution which transposes one table into a ‘swapped’ table i.e headers become column A and column A becomes the headers. Along the
Here’s an even better way to make an automatic list of tabs in an Excel workbook it works in Excel for Windows and Mac and bypasses some possible traps. Start with our article on Automatic worksheet/tabs list in Excel which explains how to add a list of Excel tabs/sheets with
Function Fn keys on your keyboard, though neglected, have a special role to play in Microsoft Office. Sometimes they combine with Ctrl, Alt or Shift keys to provide certain functions. Here’s how to use Fn keys when they’re on smaller laptop keyboards or totally missing! Plus how Microsoft Office’s help
Here’s a complete list of the Word Function Key features from fast access to Help, jumping around the document, doc panes, spelling, grammar and managing field codes. Let’s discuss in detail the functionality of the F-keys labelled F1 through F12 on your keyboard. F1 – Help, field jump F2 –
Insert the Epsilon upper case Ε, and Epsilon lower case ε symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Epsilon (uppercase Ε / lowercase ε) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. The uppercase isn’t commonly used outside of the Greek language,
The inverted or Spanish question mark ¿ is available in Microsoft Word, regardless of language setting. There’s even an in-built shortcut. ¿ is most commonly used in Spanish for the start of a question sentence. This guide is mostly for people without a Spanish keyboard or who only occasionally need
Make Excel mobile for iPhone or iPad read aloud a workbook. Great for double-checking figures from a printed source. The options aren’t very good but we’ll explain what might be possible. Excel 365 does not have a Read Aloud or Speak feature similar to Word for iPhone/iPad let alone Word
Grab high-res still pictures from movies and videos to insert into Office documents or emails. We’ll show you how to capture or grab a proper, full size, high-resolution still image from a high quality video file then paste that picture into an Office document or Outlook email. Why do this?
It’s now possible to insert a PowerBI report directly into a PowerPoint slide, finally resolving a long-standing customer demand and glaring omission. The PowerBI report has filters and pivots to adjust the display directly. The data is live in both Edit and Slide Show modes. Microsoft calls this Interactive Data
Outlook for Mac is now available to all, no payment or subscription required. It combines email, calendar and contacts in the one app. Anyone with a recent Mac computer can install Outlook for Mac for email, calendar and contacts from the App Store. All the common and most less-common email
Here’s how to replace private or confidential text with ‘filler’ nonsense or anonymous text in a Word document. Handy for getting help with Word formatting or numbering problems where you can’t share the real document to an outsider. This is often a problem for legal workers or others with privacy
Losing recent work on a document is really frustrating so here are a few tips to make Office document saving more reliable, with less risk of loss if the computer or Office programs crash. A few changes to Microsoft’s defaults can mean lower blood pressure for you. Save AutoRecover every
Insert lower case letter with circles ⓐ to ⓩ in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook etc. Officially they are called Circled Latin Small Letters. Circled small letters in different fonts Only two common Office fonts have double circled digits Segoe UI Symbol and Calibri. Here’s how the symbols look in both
The rainbow shape with multi-color effect is possible in text, shapes and images for any Microsoft Office documents including Word and PowerPoint. With a few changes you can make a rainbow for documents or slides. Rainbow Text Effect Insert | WordArt choosing whichever preset is closest to what you want.
A rainbow in Office is a custom gradient effect available for Shapes including WordArt borders and many elements in Word, PowerPoint and other Office programs for Windows or Mac. We have the exact colors, positions and options to use for a great rainbow. All the Office preset gradients are single-color
Here’s how to mask a photo with any Microsoft Office shape or icon and do it with full control over what appears from the original image. We’ve already explained two simple ways to crop a photo to a shape or fill a shape with some options to move and resize
The picture option ‘Set Transparency Color’ doesn’t always work properly in Microsoft Office. We’ll explain the problem and suggest some fixes. When we were making our article “Make a transparent shape to mask a photo in Word, PowerPoint and more” we discovered that the ‘Set Transparent Color’ option didn’t work
Recent investigations have revealed some worrying truths about the risks in opening OneNote notebooks, a surprising fact about .one files, some bad news and good news. Criminals are increasingly sending out nasty OneNote .one files in emails, taking advantage of another Microsoft security ‘blind spot’. OneNote Embedded File Abuse from
Microsoft is expanding their Phone Link feature in Windows 11 to include Apple iPhones. That means call and SMS text messaging from an iPhone can appear on a Windows screen. Phone Link is already available for Android phones. With a connected smartphone Microsoft likes to talk broadly about ‘messages’ and
