Thunderbirds are go! They live on in Microsoft Office, ready to serve as a retro look in your Word documents or PowerPoint slides. The passing of Gerry Anderson was sad news. Mr Anderson enthralled millions of kids (and more than a few adults) with his groundbreaking shows like Captain Scarlet
Outlook’s AutoComplete seems simple and useful. It’s certainly useful but it’s hardly simple and occasionally it’s been downright dangerous or embarrassing. AutoComplete makes it too easy to send an email to the wrong address. We’ll look at AutoComplete, how it works, the pitfalls and the few settings available. First we’ll
Here’s some suggestions for making a Word, Excel or Powerpoint document smaller. Also useful for Outlook emails. We’ve had readers occasionally asking how they can ‘shrink’ a document until it’s under some arbitrary size limit. Why even worry about the file size of documents? Much of the time, the file
There are web links or .ics files that let you add an appointment direct to your Outlook calendar without retyping. Airlines and some theater and concert events offer them at the end of online booking. They are simple to use but there’s also tricks to make them even better. We’ll
There’s a limitation in Word’s Table Styles; no individual cell styles within a Word table We’ll explain the problem and several options to workaround it. Along the way it’s a chance to dig into some interesting parts of Word and Office and make them do things that might not have
It’s time to collect some feedback and questions from Office Watchers for a little Microsoft Office 365 myth busting, or not. Even after eight years of ‘subscription’ or annual payment Microsoft Office there are still misunderstandings about some parts of how modern Office works and how ‘subscription’ Microsoft 365 software
It’s possible to save even more on Microsoft Office 365, software downloads and ebooks. Here’s how. Microsoft, like many online retailers, charges US state sales tax for virtual products like Microsoft 365 subscriptions or Office 2021. That can add up to 7.5% to the cost of an Microsoft 365 subscription,
Garage, Microsoft’s test lab, has released FindTime, a new way to arrange meetings via Outlook. With FindTime, you can check other people’s calendars to find free time for an appointment. Propose some times via email for people to vote on and see the results. Source: Microsoft This might seem familiar.
Amazon is selling Office 2021 Home and Student for $50 off the regular price. There’s also a discount on Home and Business (including Outlook). Office 2021 is the latest perpetual licence or non-subscription version of Microsoft Office. It was released only a few months ago. Office 2021 Home and Student
Amazon is offering Microsoft 365 Family for the standard price of $106 but throwing in a $50 gift card to sweeten the deal – making the net price $55.99 for 12 months instead of the usual $99.99. But you’ll have to be quick. The deal is still working on Wed.
The Omicron variant is spreading across the world and so are questions about how to pronounce the word. A simple job for Microsoft Office 365’s Read Aloud. Just type Omicron into Word then go to Review | Read Aloud or choose the word and press Ctrl + Alt + Space
If you’re the owner of a Microsoft 365 Family plan how can you find out who the plan is shared with and control their access? Microsoft 365 Family plans can be shared among six people, after a while it can be hard to remember who you’ve shared with and exactly
The Coming Soon pane in Office 365 is supposed to help people use upcoming features. For the interface changes, the pane is just marketing waffle and misdirection straight from an advertising copywriters desk. Click on the Coming Soon megaphone shows this pane with the option to “Try the new experience”
The look of Microsoft Office 365 for Windows is changing with new features beyond the simple design changes. Here’s what you can do with the new look, mostly changes to the Quick Access Toolbar and important changes to Office default settings. Note: what you see in Office 365 might not
Drop Caps are very old fashioned, there’s space left for them in the oldest printed books in the world, the Gutenberg Bibles. You can do the same thing, a lot more easily, in Microsoft Word. In this Office-Watch.com article we’ll go beyond the simple ‘how to’ for Drop Cap. There’s
PowerPoint videos have more options and work better if they aren’t streamed from an online source like YouTube. How can you copy an online video to a separate video file, saved on your computer? To download or ‘rip’ a YouTube video, you have to enter the world of YouTube downloading.
Microsoft Word can print the selected parts of a document, not just the whole document, Select the part of the document you want to print. Word won’t let you print separated selections (made using the Ctrl key). Go to File | Print (or Ctrl + P) and from the Settings
In 2013 they discovered a new Prime number but not for Excel. The GIMPS project has discovered a new prime number – that’s a number that can only be divided by itself and one. The new arrival is a bouncing bonny number 257,885,161-1 which is 17 million digits long. Prime numbers
NewEgg has a promising 15-month deal for Microsoft 365 Family charging $69.99 instead of over a hundred dollars. It’s a good deal and, we’ll show you the trick to save another $10 on their headline price. Office Watcher, Richard H, sent us a tip about a good Microsoft Office deal.
Trying to login to Microsoft can get into a strange loop being told “there’s already an account” but then “That Microsoft account doesn’t exist.” for the same address! Amazingly both messages are right but not well worded. How can a Microsoft account login (email address) both exist and not exist
Outlook can setup an Out of Office response, depending on the type of email connection but there’s a better way that works for everyone. ‘Out of Office’ or ‘Vacation’ autoresponses will automatically reply to incoming messages. Clever systems have options like different messages for people inside or outside an organization
The new look Office 365 and Office 2021 is rolling out and the complaints are coming thick and fast. We’ve been working thought the messages we’ve received and tried to figure out the problems and possible solutions. Missing Quick Access Toolbar? It might seem like the Quick Access Toolbar QAT
Walmart’s $70 deal for 15-month of Microsoft 365 Family has gone but there are still two other offers available to extend or start a Microsoft 365 Family plan. As often happens a very good offer for Microsoft 365 Family doesn’t last long before it’s replaced (using the same link) with
There’s a lot more to Undo than just reversing the last thing you did in Microsoft Office The UNDO command is surely one of the greatest time-saving inventions of the digital age. According to Jensen Harris, the head honcho of the Microsoft Office User Experience Team back in 2008 ,
