Once you have the basic setup for the I ♥ or I Love … sign, the fun begins. Making your own variations for a Word document or PowerPoint presentation. Start by making your own I ♥ or I Love … sign based on the original I Love NY logo. Font variations Simply changing the font […]
It’s pretty easy to make a similar I ♥ or I Love logo, in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. It’s even a little easier for Mac users. Check out Making the original I Love NY sign to see how the original logo is put together. The logo looks simple but it’s not. We’ll show you the […]
Here’s the design details of how the famous I ♥ NY / I Love NY logo was made. The font, colors, symbols and how they come together to make an iconic sign imitated all over the world. The logo was created by Milton Glasner in the back of a taxi but these days all you […]
Microsoft is touting Application Guard as a defence against Office 365 macro viruses. What is it and will it truly prevent viruses in Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents? Application Guard is already in the Edge browser and Microsoft has announced that it will be extended into Office 365 sometime in early 2020. They’ve not said […]
We’ve completed our series on ‘Hidden’ options in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. How to hide text, images, cells, slides etc within documents. Hiding is a useful option and avoids deleting content that might be needed later. It lets you make a different version of a document/sheet/deck without the hassle of maintaining two very similar documents. […]
We have recently discussed how to show hidden formatting characters in Word, but it is also possible to hide text and even images in Microsoft Word, as long as you are using Word on your computer. At this stage, Word Online and Word phone apps don’t allow you to hide text. See Find and Remove Hidden […]
Word is very clever dealing with Hidden text, perhaps a bit too clever at times. Here’s some tricks for positioning and formatting with Hidden text. Students quiz (left) and Teachers version (right) from the same document. The answer text is hidden in the student version but there’s still space for their answers. Leaving space where […]
If you want to remove hidden text from your Word document, you first need to find it. For a shorter document, you can use the Show/Hide button to see what’s hidden and delete it manually, but that would be very time consuming for longer documents with lots of hidden passages. Never fear, there are a […]
A new Office app for Android a single ‘all in one’ app for Microsoft Office. We’ve done our own look at the new app, not relying on Microsoft’s hype to check out the Home panel, Actions, Word, Excel and PowerPoint features, PDF viewing and options, ‘image to text’ features and how to bypass a major […]
The Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard is one of two new models with dedicated Office key and Emoji key. What’s this new keyboard like … aside from those innovations? We bought a Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard with our own money and gave it a long hard look. Source: Microsoft Note: this is the Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard released in […]
There are three little ‘gotchas’ with the Rewrite feature in Word 365 for Windows. One is unprecedented in the history of Microsoft Office. The ‘public’ feature isn’t available to everyone. Rewrite is the new cloud service that suggests alternatives to phrases in a document. The way it’s been released to the public is unusual […]
Two new Microsoft keyboards have an Emoji key. Office-Watch.com has now tried one of these keyboards to see how the new key really works and hardware details. There are various layouts available including US layout. We bought a UK layout keyboard with the Alt Gr key. Firstly, it’s not an ‘Emoji key’. Everyone has been […]
Two new Microsoft keyboards have a dedicated Office key. Office-Watch.com has tested one of these keyboards to see how the new Office key really works. We have a full list of Office key shortcuts plus how it works inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint and geeky hardware info. Hard information about the new key has been […]
Microsoft Word can now suggest alternative wordings for phrases and sentences in a feature called Rewrite. It’s ‘synonyms for phrases’ not just single words. Rewrite is promoted as ‘Say it another way’. If you want a different wording for an overworked phrase, Rewrite could help. Speaking of overworked phrases, here’s Rewrite’s suggestions for Microsoft <g>. […]
The Microsoft Whiteboard app can now import pages from Word documents or selected slides from a PowerPoint deck. The new feature is better than it’s promoted because you can select pages/slides not just entire documents or decks. Start from the Insert menu where there are now options for Word document and PowerPoint document. The PDF […]
Here are the major marks Microsoft Word displays with the Show All option on. Paragraph Mark, the symbol is called a Pilcrow. It’s the symbol used for the ‘Show All’ button on the Home tab. Line Break, angled arrow pointing left. Tab, a right pointing arrow Space, a dot in the middle of the line Hidden Text, dots under the text. Optional hyphen, line with bend at end. […]
If you are working on a Word document with complex formatting, sometimes you need to see the hidden characters and unseen workings. It helps figure out what’s going on when the layout doesn’t behave. That’s where ‘Show All’ becomes essential. Microsoft Word was designed to hide all the formatting and technicalities (WYSIWYG). Early versions of […]
Microsoft’s new Surface Buds are earbuds with links to Microsoft Office for voice control and transcription. The new product is a rival to the Apple Airpods and many other similar cordless earphones. What’s different is the touch surface with allow more integration with Windows and especially Office. Source: Microsoft It’s unclear what, if anything, is […]
Soon, Office 365 will warn you when the document, worksheet or presentation uses a document format that doesn’t support modern accessibility features. Accessibility features like alt text in images, color contrast, heading consistency, table structures are only available with the modern Office document formats ( .docx .xlsx .pptx etc). Office 365 for Windows from Insider […]
Microsoft is releasing two new keyboards with new keys; an Office key and a dedicated Emoji key. Back in June we talked about the plans for an Office key to go alongside the existing Windows key. Here it is … Source: Microsoft The Office and Emoji keys are on the right of the spacebar. Source: […]
