Schedule or delay sending an email more reliably than using Outlook desktop apps. Even better, itâs incredibly simple to do in Gmail, Outlook.com or any Exchange Server mailbox including Microsoft 365 hosted mail. Weâve explained how to use âDelayed Deliveryâ in Outlook desktop apps and also the many problems with
“ I need to see the entire message that was sent to me, headers, MIME parts, the lot. How can I do that in Outlook?” – Gary G, Taupo NZ. The short answer is, you can’t, with a possible exception. That’s not the answer you’ll see elsewhere on the Internet
You can delay sending an email in Outlook. It’s a handy trick that can help make sure your message is read. Hereâs how to schedule send an email plus the many traps, complications and a long-standing Outlook bug. A Washington Post article headed The one simple trick to make sure
2023 is the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese calendar. Thereâs plenty of rabbit, bunny and other New Year related images, icons and Chinese character ć in Microsoft Office plus advice on the right colors to use for Chinese New Year graphics. Chinese New Year is on 22 January
Microsoft has quietly added a few extras to their Clipchamp video editor for Microsoft 365 customers. Weâll show which premium filters and effects for free, now available just for having a Microsoft 365 consumer plan. When we say Microsoft âquietlyâ added these extras, we mean it. Thereâs been no announcement,
The US State Department is changing from Times New Roman font for documents to Calibri. There are good reasons for the change though, as usual, there are objections and a little Microsoft Mystery. Calibri is the current default font in Microsoft Word and other Office apps. Itâs been the default
Office 2021 is the current ‘perpetual licence’ or non-subscription version of Microsoft Office for consumers and small businesses, here’s details of what’s new, prices, shorter support time and why Microsoft doesn’t want to sell Office 2021 at all! It’s what Microsoft calls a ‘perpetual licence’ version. A single payment for
Microsoft has quietly announced that features are being withdrawn from the standard Teams plans and will only be in the higher-priced âTeams Premiumâ plan. The change is controversial because itâs a late change to the features in Teams Premium by taking away existing options from other paying customers. Microsoft knows
Excel 365 for Windows is getting more functions only for Data Models with PowerPivot. Â Data Analysis Expression (DAX) functions are useful for exploring large datasets. There are a few UTC time/date functions weâd like to see made available to all Excel users. A full list of the new DAX functions
Finding out the current UTC / GMT time in Excel is possible with a little VBA magic. We’ve included a full working example. Excel has two functions to give you the current date TODAY() or current date and time NOW() but it’s the local time as set on your computer.
Finding out the computers local time zone offset in Excel is possible with a little VBA magic. We’ve included a full working example of how to get the ‘nn hours from GMT’ setting from Windows into Excel. The need for the current UTC/GMT time and offset is becoming more important
Insert a Compass đ§ symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Compass đ§ uses Segoe UI Emoji In Windows, the Compass đ§ symbol is in the font: Segoe UI Emoji. Depending on the app and use, itâll appear in color
A clever and different year planner with a progress thermometer is now available for download as an Excel workbook. The days remaining in the year are visible with weekends shaded and each day of week shown. At the bottom is a clever use of Excelâs Chart features to make a
Famous London streets signs are selling for big bucks ⊠or you can make your own in Word or PowerPoint for nothing. A sale of genuine London street signs by Westminster City Council included one for Abbey Road that sold for £37,200 (US$51,000). We thought that was a lot and
Some ânot allowedâ or âprohibitedâ symbols, they can be used in Word, PowerPoint, Excel or Outlook. No Smoking, No Phone, No Children, No Drinking, No Pedestrians, No Bicycles, Not Drinkable Water or Mute. The Unicode symbol list includes red circle with diagonal to stop, smoking, children under 18, Mobile Phones,
How to bulk convert old documents (.doc .xls .ppt) into the newer Office formats (.docx .xlsx .pptx etc.). Microsoft has never produced a simple bulk conversion tool for the masses, much to the annoyance of users and network administrators. Redmond probably made that choice for their own self-interest but some
Type the micron ”, micrometer or mu ÎŒ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Stuart H has an AutoCorrect suggestion: ” I need to use the symbol ÎŒ for micron (1/000 mm) and use mu for this. “ The Micrometre / Micrometer is one-millionth of a meter. The ÎŒ
Here’s some power selection tricks in Microsoft Word for text, tables, pictures and more. You might think that selecting text and other things in Word is simple. Â Like many things in Office, there’s a lot more available than the simple methods that we all learn. There are quick ways to
Sometimes there’s more than one way to do something in Microsoft Word like having four blocks of text on a page with images or text breakout with flowing columns of text with a side-bar or break-out. “How can I do a magazine-like layout with four blocks of text, one in
Here are the best ways to get results from Microsoft Forms into an Excel workbook. Sadly they aren’t the elegant and efficient ways available in modern Microsoft Excel 365, 2021 or 2019 for Windows. Weâll explain how to get Microsoft Forms results into Excel for better filtering and analysis. Then
I said there are at least six tricks with the Excel Name Box and that’s before you get into using named rangers and objects. The Name Box lets you select a cells and give them a name or jump to an existing named range. Itâs the same as going to
