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.
Excel for iPad gets PivotTable editing – at last!
Until now, Excel for iPad could use PivotTables already setup in desktop Excel. Now you’ll be able to make and edit PivotTables too. An Excel for iPad PivotTable looks the same as in other Excel’s Being able to make last minute changes to a PivotTable on the iPad is very welcome. It’s probably still easier […]
RobinAI get funding for AI-powered Word add-in for lawyers
RobinAI, a legal add-in for Microsoft Word has received $26 million in new funding from a Singapore investment firm. The Word add-on uses AI tech to help drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts. There’s a contract repository with a search option to let you pull out relevant text from similar past contracts. “Customers can add their […]
Laundry care symbols typed in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Many different ways to type or insert laundry care symbols, which appear on clothing labels, into Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Laundry care symbols can be for laundry area signs or for fun like this t-shirt. Or alternative symbols in a PowerPoint slide. All five symbols were black laundry care icons. As SVG graphics all five […]
Copilot to get its own button on Windows keyboards
Microsoft’s push into AI continues with the announcement of a special Copilot button on some Microsoft keyboards. Will a Copilot key be any more popular than other Microsoft attempts to add their products onto keyboard? The Copilot key might look like this Or more likely this single color version: Keyboards with a Copilot button are […]
Look out for Catch Up in Microsoft Office
Catch Up is Microsoft’s new way to present the latest changes, comments, mentions and tasks in a collaborated document, sheet or slide deck. When a document is being managed by many people, there can be a lot happening. Edits to the doc, sheet or slides, comments and @mentions including tasks that can become hard to […]
Microsoft Office welcomes Mickey and other public domain characters
How to get and use the copyright free Mickey Mouse and other public domain creations in Microsoft Office. Add to Word documents or PowerPoint slides. There’s been a lot of stories about content that is now in the public domain, especially Mickey Mouse. That copyright expiry applies to the USA only. Copyright law is different […]
Discover Microsoft Office Quick-Start .new Links
There are special web links to make a new Office document (Word, Excel or PowerPoint) with a single click. Microsoft has bought some .new domain names like https://word.new . When you click on a .new link, a fresh document is created for you. Word, Excel or PowerPoint files are created in the Office web apps […]
2024 Calendars in Word and the tricks to make them special
Word has many 2024 calendars in the File | New templates supplied by Microsoft. There are tricks to getting the most from the templates and make them personal and special. Search for ‘ calendar’ in the File | New pane. They are all programmed templates, type in type in the year and Word will do […]
Calendars Galore from Microsoft Office!
Microsoft Office has many, many print calendars to choose from, if you know where to look. There’s a trick to choosing the right calendar for your needs, made by Word, Excel, Outlook or PowerPoint. Printing out calendars or adding them to documents/slides is possible in Microsoft Office though the selection is spread across Word, Excel […]
A better Excel Calendar Creator for Office Watch readers
Here’s a better and more flexible version of the Calendar Creator with both Sunday and Monday start of week. Office Watch reader, David Peel, has made a better, more compatible Calendar Creator. We added some different versions to suit other calendar formats. We’ve told you about The Mystery of Excel’s Calendar Creator template which doesn’t […]
2024 Calendars in your PowerPoint slides
There are 2024 calendar templates available for PowerPoint, giving you landscape oriented calendars but less options overall. Landscape calendars PowerPoint calendars aren’t just for presentations. They offer printable landscape orientation calendars not usually available in Word or Excel. Look for the overall layout you want, change the images and colors to suit. Just like Word […]
Making better Outlook Printed Calendars
Each of the Outlook printed calendars has some options to improve what’s shown on the page. Task List, Upcoming appointments and blank note space can all be selected to suit you. If you want to define your calendar options you have to ‘click deep’ into what Microsoft calls ‘styles’ (no relation to Styles in Word, […]
Make Excel calendars better for you
Excel can make calendars from some supplied templates. Some templates are labelled with a specific purpose however a few simple changes can make them better and suit what you need. Sadly, the help with the templates can be wrong or misleading. Here’s just one example to show what’s possible to make a specialist Excel calendar […]
Make your own Yearly calendars and more in Word
Microsoft Word can make Yearly and Monthly calendars quite easily and they have better configuration options than you might expect. We’ve already looked at the Outlook printing options , customizing them including blank Weekly and Monthly calendars. Outlook doesn’t have a yearly calendar option, so we’re turning to Word. We’ll look at just one option available […]
How to Find and Replace in Word Text Boxes
Find and replace inside Microsoft Word Text Boxes is something that Word can’t do directly but is possible in two different ways. As we’ve already explained, Word can only find text inside Text Boxes as either part of a search of the entire document or just the content of Text Boxes. The trouble comes if […]
Find has clever options in Microsoft Word
Let’s go deeper into the Microsoft Word ‘Find’ function, looking specifically at a number of options that can be accessed in the Word “Find” feature (Ctrl+F) and clicking its “More” button. In a recent issue of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at how to search within a Word document. There is a lot of hidden […]
