Better live sorting in Excel 365
In late 2018, Excel 365 got an important new feature, Dynamic Arrays . Here’s a simple way to use the Read More
Office for Mac
Double Vertical Bar ‖ in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Double Vertical Bar ‖ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows Read More
Cross of Lorraine ☨ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Cross of Lorraine ☨ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Read More
Sigma upper Σ or lower σ case symbols in Word and Office
How to insert the Sigma upper case Σ and Sigma lower case σ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both Read More
Omega upper Ω or lower ω symbols in Word and Office
Type the Greek letter Omega in upper case Ω or lower case ω in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both Read More
Why don’t Outlook calendars and contacts show in Windows?
Windows has some nice features for quickly showing your appointments, calendar and contacts/people lists so why don’t they show that Read More
Om 🕉 or Devanagari Om ॐ symbols in Word and Office
Type the Om 🕉 or Devanagari Om ॐ symbol in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The Om 🕉 Read More
Word's =Rand() around the World
=Rand.old() is a Word trick which adds common sentences that use all, or most, of the letters in that language’s Read More
Get more from Mark Index features in Microsoft Word
Behind the simple Mark Index feature in Word are some useful but almost hidden options. These give you many choices Read More
Easter Bunnies and more in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint etc.
Yes, there are bunnies and other secular Easter graphics waiting for you in Microsoft 365 and Office 2019. Icons and Read More
Christian Cross choices in Word, Excel, PPT and emails
There are various options for inserting a Christian or Latin Cross symbol into Office documents like Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Read More
Hidden picture info in your Office documents
The BBC has a ‘long read’ about hidden information inside almost all photos. Office Watch has talked about this problem Read More
Down arrow ↓ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Down arrow ↓ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Read More
Quickly make Word Indexes with concordance or AutoMark
A more efficient way to mark index entries in Microsoft Word is with a concordance or AutoMark file. It’s a Read More
Simple Indexing in Microsoft Word
We’re going to talk about creating indexes in Microsoft Word. ‘Real’ books often have an index at the back which Read More
Make sense of an Outlook email header
There’s a nice little tool that will make sense of the header in any email you receive in Outlook. An Read More
A risk of spam filters - you might miss a real prize!
Aggressive spam filters can stop you getting messages you really want to get. One Australian author found that out the Read More
Message Trace – the way to find missing Microsoft 365 emails
Trying to find a missing message or why an email is in a particular folder? For Microsoft 365 hosted accounts Read More
How we made the 'Adjust your monitor' sign
Re-creating the “Don’t be a Spock” sign in Word wasn’t hard especially since the original sign seen at the laboratory Read More
The case of the missing file extension
You’ve received a document, but when you try to open it, the file stubbornly won’t appear! We explain how to Read More
