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.
Starting out with 3D models in Microsoft Office
How to insert and use 3D models in Microsoft Office. 3D models let you rotate, pan and zoom all around an object to show it exactly the way you want. Microsoft Office’s 3D models feature has more uses than you might expect. From the Microsoft promotion, it looks like 3D models are only good for […]
Degree Fahrenheit ℉ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Degree Fahrenheit ℉ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Degree Fahrenheit ℉ symbol is used as the unit for the Fahrenheit temperature scale. It’s a single character that’s a combination of the degree symbol and capital F. There’s a matching Degree Celsius […]
Degree Celsius ℃ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Degree Celsius / Centigrade ℃ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Degree Celsius ℃ is a single character symbol is used to refer to a specific temperature on the Celsius or Centigrade scale. Centigrade was the original name for the temperature scale before 1948 […]
SketchUp 3D graphics in Office 365
Microsoft has added SketchUp 3D graphics (.skp files) to the models inserted into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. SketchUp is a 3D graphics program where you can create shareable designs such as architectural models and graphics used in industrial design, product design, and civil and mechanical engineering. SketchUp Free is available for everyone. Adding Sketchup’s […]
Use the Smithsonian for great photos and 3D models in PowerPoint and Word
The Smithsonian has millions of images and 3D models available online to add something great and different to Microsoft Office including PowerPoint slides and Word documents. The Smithsonian Institution has been a US cultural, scientific and historical resource for the last 170 years. No visit to Washington DC is complete without going to several of their […]
Microsoft fixes their Quick Access Toolbar changes
Microsoft has reversed course on their proposed changes to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) in Microsoft Office 365 apps. The current defaults remain for new installs with ‘below the ribbon’ available as an option. In other words, common sense has prevailed. Microsoft wanted to move the Quick Access Toolbar from its familiar location ‘top left’ […]
Illegal colors in Word, PowerPoint and Office
Amazingly, a simple color can be trademarked and using one in a Word, PowerPoint or Office document can be illegal. We’ll explain why and a list of some colors you might need to avoid. Companies can trademark a color that’s associated with their product or logo. If you’re designing a document or presentation, especially for […]
A faster way to delete ink in OneNote
OneNote is getting a new and faster way to delete digital ink using the ‘scratch out’ or scribble gesture. As usual, there’s devil in the details to keep in mind. The basics are simple, so simple that it’s a little surprising that the erase gesture isn’t already available. To delete an ink object on a […]
Use Microsoft’s AI magic now – don’t wait for Copilot
Microsoft’s AI is available to use now to search or summarize web pages, PDF or any Office document. Use Bing as a peek at the future CoPilot AI system might do for Microsoft Office. Bing Discover is available in the latest Edge browser (Windows or Mac). It opens up two panes of Microsoft AI ‘Chat’ […]
Start a Word list from any value, not just 1 or A
You can tell Microsoft Word to start an ordered or numbered list from any number or letter you like. Not just start an ordered list with 1 or A. Lists can also restart numbering after a break. Creating a numbered list There are different ways for creating a numbered list you can simply type 1 […]
Myth Busting about Office document formats
Even after 15 years, there’s still misinformation about the ‘new’ Office document formats .docx .xlsx etc. We’ll explain these myths and how you can easily disprove them yourself. Most of these myths surround the use of ZIP compression to make the document files smaller. Folks have jumped to wrong conclusions after hearing about ZIP. Not […]
OneNote is getting Microsoft CoPilot
Microsoft has confirmed that their AI helper tools, called CoPilot will be added to OneNote. Here’s some ideas of what the AI system will add to OneNote. CoPilot will be interesting and useful in many ways but the Microsoft Hype ™ is getting way ahead of reality. The OneNote with CoPilot announcement included the usual […]
Vertical Bar | symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Vertical Bar | into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Vertical Bar | symbol (technically a glyph) has many uses in computing, physics, maths and typography. In some programming languages | has a special meaning, for example in PowerShell | is called […]
Excel’s Round () and nine other rounding functions
Excel’s Round () function rounds a number to a specified number of digits. It might seem like the choice for your rounding needs but there are NINE more rounding functions that might be better and even that’s not enough to cover all rounding needs. Round () basics Round() is pretty simple, give it a value […]
More accurate Excel rounding to the international specification
Here’s how to round numbers more accurately than Excel’s in-built Round() and other functions. This method uses the internationally recognized standard for rounding (yes, there is one), we’ll show the long formula, how it works plus the Let() and Lambda() versions that can make your worksheet easier to deal with. Rounding ‘Ties to Even’ The […]
Why Excel’s Round() function is wrong
Excel’s Round() function is not totally accurate. There’s a lot more to rounding numbers than we were taught in school and how Microsoft’s Round() function works. What we learned in school and Round() is OK. But if you’re dealing with larger groups of numbers, narrow rounding ranges or should be very, very fair (e.g test […]
