Microsoft 365 – the subscription / annual fee plan for Microsoft Office on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Includes Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365, Outlook 365 and many other ‘365’ programs, apps and services.
Microsoft Publisher Ends October 2026: How to Keep It Working
Microsoft Publisher is ending in October 2026, and what happens to you depends entirely on how you bought it. If you use Publisher 365 from a Microsoft 365 plan, the app will simply stop opening. That is a kill switch, not a polite end of support notice. If you have Publisher 2019 or Publisher 2021 […]
Which Copilot Model Should You Use in PowerPoint? Auto, GPT, or Claude Opus
PowerPoint 365 now lets some Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers choose between Auto, GPT, and Claude Opus for text and design tasks, and picking the wrong one wastes time or gives you a weaker draft. Here is what each model is actually good at, which one to leave selected for everyday slide work, and when it […]
Windows 10 Users: Microsoft 365 Just Stopped Getting New Features
If you run Microsoft 365 on Windows 10, your Word, Excel, and Outlook just got locked in place. Microsoft’s version 2608 update, released August 2026, is the last one bringing new features to Windows 10. Your apps keep working and keep getting security patches, but nothing new is coming unless you move to Windows 11. […]
Microsoft ends SMS and Voice Authentication: Passkeys Become Mandatory
If your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID, the days of logging in with a text message code or an automated phone call are numbered. Microsoft has set February 1, 2027 as the shutdown date for its free SMS and voice login service, and passkeys become the default in its place. Here is exactly what changes, […]
AI Can Turn Your Angry Email Into One That Actually Gets Results
If you have ever typed an angry email and hesitated before hitting send, AI can help. Paste your unfiltered draft into Copilot, ChatGPT, or any AI tool and ask for a polite but firm rewrite. You still get to vent everything you are feeling, but the version you actually send is calmer, clearer, and far […]
OneNote as a Digital Commonplace Book: A Simple Way to Save Ideas
If you’re copying quotes, links, and half formed ideas into random Word documents or sticky notes, OneNote can replace all of that with one searchable place. This habit is centuries old. Renaissance writers called it a commonplace book. OneNote just makes it faster to fill and far easier to search later. The commonplace book isn’t […]
Publisher 365 Kill Switch: What Microsoft’s New Email Gets Wrong
Microsoft just emailed Microsoft 365 subscribers with a warning that badly undersells the Publisher 365 problem. The real deadline is 1 October 2026, less than two months away, not “next year” as the email claims. After that date, Publisher 365 stops opening or editing your files completely, not just “no longer supported.” Here is what […]
Microsoft Cancels Copilot Search in Outlook, But the Copilot Button Gets Bigger
Microsoft has cancelled the Copilot suggestions it started pushing into the Outlook search box in June 2026, after three months of complaints that AI answers were burying the emails people were actually looking for. If you saw Copilot results appear above your own messages, they will vanish again as the rollback reaches your account, and […]
Highlight the Selected Row and Column in Excel and Stop Data Errors
Large Excel worksheets punish you for a moment of inattention. Your eye drifts one row, you type a score or a price into the wrong cell, and nobody notices for weeks. Excel can fix that by highlighting the row and column of whatever cell you click on, so the right cell is always obvious. It […]
Excel 365 Focus Cell: Highlight the Row and Column You Are In
Typing a number into the wrong row is one of the easiest mistakes to make in a large worksheet and one of the hardest to spot weeks later. Excel’s Focus Cell fixes that by shading the entire row and column of whatever cell you click on, so the right cell is always obvious. It is […]
Copilot on the Quick Access Toolbar: The Hidden Trick That Works (Sort Of)
Tired of the Copilot button floating over your document? There is a way to park it on the Quick Access Toolbar in Microsoft 365 Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Windows, but Microsoft has buried the option and what you get is not quite a Copilot button at all. Here is exactly how to do it, […]
PowerPoint AI Images Tested: Which Copilot Model Actually Works
PowerPoint 365 has the best AI image making anywhere in Microsoft 365, with GPT and Flux models you would normally pay extra to use directly. We ran the same prompt through every model to see which ones deliver and which ones just throw errors. Here is what each model is actually good for and why […]
Microsoft 365 Subscribers 2026: 95 Million and Rising Bills
Microsoft will not tell you how many people pay for Microsoft 365 anymore. The last official figure was 89 million consumer subscribers in July 2025, and the estimate for mid 2026 is about 95 million. What Microsoft did report on July 29, 2026 is the part that reaches your wallet: Microsoft 365 consumer cloud revenue […]
Claude’s Opus 5 model in Microsoft 365 apps
Another day, another AI model. At least that’s how it seems. Just between Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Microsoft’s own MAI models, there’s a constant flow of new and updated AI models for Microsoft 365 apps. Be aware of changes in AI models because the new software can behave in a different way. Sometimes better, […]
Word Style ‘Automatically Update’: Why You Should Turn It Off
Change the font on one paragraph in Microsoft Word and watch the rest of the document change with it. That is ‘Automatically update’, a checkbox hiding in every Word style’s Modify Style box. It is off for most styles, but when it is on, Word rewrites the style itself every time you reformat a paragraph, […]
Office for Mac Won’t Open? Fix “Unknown Error 0x0” and “License Not Found” in Two Minutes
If Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint or OneNote suddenly refuse to open on your Mac and flash Unknown Error 0x0 or License Not Found, you are not locked out and your subscription is fine. It was a licensing bug on Microsoft’s side, now fixed. The repair is free, needs no reinstall, and takes about two minutes: […]
