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.
Signatures for all occasions in Outlook
How to have email signatures in Outlook for all the different roles in your life. Most of us wear different ‘hats’ – a family member, friend, person, employee or volunteer. Each of those ‘hats’ can have a different Outlook email signature. Which Outlook signature you use depends on the situation and, perhaps, the email account […]
Essential keyboard shortcuts for the Office Selection Pane
Use these essential keyboard shortcuts to make best use of the Selection pane in Microsoft Office. Alt + F10 Open Selection Pane F6 Move the keyboard focus through the major regions until reaches the Selection Pane Tab Navigate by keyboard through the buttons in the pane and then into the list Up arrow, down arrow […]
See more with Selection Pane in Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Selection Pane is essential in Word, Powerpoint and Excel to hide or display the objects or to change the order, rename objects, group / ungroup, and delete objects. If you’re using images, graphics, Text Boxes, charts, SmartArt or other objects, the Selection Pane is a must. So, let’s start with some basic details of how […]
How to use Excel’s Business Assist – Forecast
Business Assist – Forecast is a new Excel add-in from Microsoft which forecasts future volumes based on past data. How to use the add-in, if you can and understand its limitations. From the promotion, Business Assist – Forecast sounds like a useful tool but it’s a different story when we tried the add-in for ourselves. […]
2001 movie design: using in Office, Word or PowerPoint
Make your own Word or PowerPoint designs inspired by the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey‘. See 2001 A Space Odyssey – in Word and PowerPoint and 2001: A Space Odyssey and font kerning for details on the fonts, colors and styles used in Kubrick’s famous movie. PowerPoint slides Moving from film stills to PowerPoint slides […]
Designer home page changes are a welcome improvement
The Microsoft Designer home page has a major update that highlights some of its hidden features. These changes aren’t just cosmetic, but are a welcome boost to the functionality and usability of the opening page. The new Designer home page is in two parts: Get Started and My Projects. Get Started Get Started has links […]
Is OpenAI’s Sam Altman move a good thing for customers or Microsoft?
It seems Sam Altman might be joining Microsoft to work on their artificial intelligence technologies with maybe 500+ of his staff following him. Is that really a good thing for customers wanting to get the most from AI technology. Microsoft actions over the last few days suggest it’s not the best move for them either. […]
Roaming email signatures in Outlook 365, 2021, 2019
Here’s how roaming email signatures work (supposedly) in Outlook 365, Outlook 2021 and 2019 for Windows including the traps and pitfalls for the unwary. What is a roaming Signature? For most of Outlook’s history, Email Signatures were saved on each computer/device only. If you have multiple computers with Outlook, you setup signatures on each device. […]
SharePoint Premium: Content Management meets AI
Microsoft has announced SharePoint Premium, an advanced platform that adds artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and enhanced security features to the existing Sharepoint system. SharePoint Premium is designed change the way organizations manage and interact with critical content. It extends the capabilities of SharePoint with new tools for content engagement, security, and lifecycle management. The platform […]
Excel trick uses a single cell to get the latest stock or exchange rate
Here’s the Excel trick to grab a recent stock price or currency exchange rate using a single cell. It bypasses the multiple steps needed for the Stock/Currency data type and the annoying lack of configuration in the standard stock/currency data type. The single cell trick makes for more compact and workbook plus letting you select […]
Great guide to harnessing Python in Excel
In a great development for data analysts and coding enthusiasts, John Lam’s new guide that expertly explains Python programming with Excel from the start to a practical example. Book of Python in Excel goes through the basics like using the XL() function in Python to grab data from an Excel workbook, importing external data and […]
Patch Tuesday – Two November 2023 highlights
Here’s just a few of the security breaches that caught our eye from a total of 63 security flaws patched in this months dump of fixes from Microsoft. Including five ‘zero-day’ bugs plus another 20 Edge browser security bugs fixed earlier in November. We’ve included links to more detail and specific patches for each version […]
New ‘Follow’ option is really a bad sign for Outlook customers
In 2024 there’ll be a good addition to some versions of Outlook called ‘Follow’ but it’s also bad news for everyone using the current Outlook for Windows. The addition is ‘Follow’ that will appear for invitations to Teams online meeting. Follow is slated for release in five months, March 2024 according to Microsoft’s Roadmap. Normally […]
More real Microsoft Word history
An Office Watch reader has added his own suggestions for important parts of Microsoft Word history (and Office) that Microsoft has forgotten and would like paying customers to ignore in their revisionist history of Word. All these remarks result from Microsoft’s increasing demands for more money from customers. Lot’s of little changes all focused on […]
Does Microsoft Word grok, Grok?
The word ‘grok’ is back in the news, thanks to Elon Musk. As long time Word users and classic science-fiction readers, we naturally wanted to see if Word’s spell check recognized the word. In other words, does Microsoft Word grok the word Grok? Grok is a word made up by Robert Heinlein for his classic […]
Eiffel Tower 🗼 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Tower 🗼 (Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower) emoji, symbol or stock photo into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The emoji is commonly called ‘Eiffel Tower’ in the west but it was originally intended to show the Tokyo Tower. That’s why some emoji are colored […]
