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.
More PowerPoint Subtitle tricks
There’s more to making subtitles for a PowerPoint (or any) video. Converters from .srt subtitles, using Microsoft Transcribe or using online tools to make your own subtitles from scratch. Webvtt vs Srt files Webvtt files (used by PowerPoint) are similar to the standard .srt subtitle files (used by Windows Movies & TV and VLC). Both […]
Black Chess King ♚ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Black Chess King ♚ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Black Chess King ♚symbol is useful for users that want to represent the chess piece as a symbol, rather than an image. Or perhaps as general symbol of royalty? See also Black Chess […]
Styles in Excel; quick, table, new, modify
You can combine Excel cell formatting into a style, but not like in Word. Excel has Styles … truly it does. Word has a way to combine formatting attributes of a letter, word or paragraph into a single block with a name like ‘Heading 1’. Excel has a feature also called Styles but it’s a […]
Will your Microsoft Office work on Windows 11?
Slipped into the bottom of a long Microsoft announcement was news about which versions of Microsoft Office would not be supported on Windows 11. According to Microsoft, Office 2013 is not supported on Windows 11. With that little snippet of news, here’s the list of Office releases that ARE supported on Windows 11. NOT supported […]
Get best quality images in a PDF made from Word
Get the best quality images in a PDF file made from Microsoft Word for Windows by changing some simple settings. There are also options in Word for Mac, Excel and PowerPoint. Better quality images in the PDF file are possible, starting with Word’s settings for saving images within the document. Then changing the image quality […]
Fixing common Office document accessibility problems
Accessibility Checker serves as a free tool that helps ensure that Office files are easy to understand by everyone. Use it to quickly fix common Office doc problems that can make your documents, sheets and slides harder to comprehend. It’s available for Microsoft 365, Office 2021/LTSC and Office 2019. Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, and PowerPoint […]
How to print a broken PDF
There’s a curious trick which might let you print a PDF that’s causing printer errors. An Office Watcher started getting PDF’s which looked OK on the screen but produced errors when he tried to print out. Otherwise the printer worked fine so the problem seemed to be in the PDF files. The errors suggest a […]
Save with new Microsoft 365 Family deal: Amazon or Argos UK
Amazon UK is offering Microsoft 365 Family at about £31 less than the usual price for both new and renewing customers. Thanks to an Office Watch reader, we can tell you about an even better deal from Argos. An even better ARGOS Offer Thanks to Julian H. for telling us about a similar and better […]
Save with new Microsoft 365 Personal deal: Amazon UK
Amazon UK is offering Microsoft 365 Personal at about £30 less than the usual price for both new and renewing customers. There are a few peculiarities about the offer, we’ll explain those below but the basics are: Microsoft 365 Personal (one user) New or renew/extend existing plan Regular price £59.99 inc VAT for 12 months […]
Microsoft security apps arrive for Apple and Android for 365 customers
Microsoft has released a preview anti-virus and security apps for Apple iPhone / iPad, Android plus Windows and Xbox called, confusingly, Defender. Trial apps are available for personal use now but in future you’ll need a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family plan. Defender was the name of Windows protection parts of Windows. In Windows 11 […]
Clever solution for Singular/Plural in Excel
Jon has found a clever way to show words (singular, plural or zero) with many numbers in Excel using conditional formatting. We already shown you several ways to put singular or plural words against numbers in Excel – like 1 cookie or 3 cookies. At the end we noted how it got more complicated when […]
Resize Embedded Content in OneNote Web
Microsoft has recently added the ability to resize Embed content within OneNote Web. It was already available for the Desktop versions, but now it has been introduced to the OneNote browser based version too. Simply by inserting, pasting, or linking content right in your notes, you can embed a variety of different content such as […]
Get some coloring book Word and PowerPoint templates
There’s been an uptick in interest for coloring in pages, having the power to relieve anxiety and a form of mindfulness or just pass the time. No wonder Microsoft jumped on the bandwagon and provided a number of coloring-in templates for Word and PowerPoint. As you browse their template selection, you’ll notice some templates are […]
Extra linked data types in Excel 365
Excel 365’s Linked Data Types have gone beyond the original Stocks and Geography feeds. Now there are more Linked Data Types to pull more public information into Excel 365 workbooks about diverse topics as Anatomy, Chemistry, Plants, Movies and more. It’s a massive extension of the existing Stock and Geography data types like Anatomy Animals […]
Windows 11 has a better way to clone an existing file
There’s a quick way to clone or duplicate an existing file in Windows 11 so you can make a new, similar document. Quite often a new document is based on an existing one, for example a fresh invoice for the same things each month. Or a proposal to a new client, which is similar to […]
Why Word treats the top and side number pad keys differently
Why are the numbers on the numeric keypad are different from the number keys on the top row of the keyboard? How to use either set of number buttons in Microsoft Word. “I don’t understand why pressing a number on the main keyboard is different from the number pad (assuming you have one). Aren’t they […]
