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.
See the new Copilot to make PowerPoint decks – a sneak peek
An early peek at Microsoft Copilot, a new part of Microsoft 365 that’s so new it’s not yet available to “Insiders”. We’ll carefully look at Copilot in PowerPoint which can make a whole slide deck based on an existing Office document. The ever-reliable Walking Cat has leaked an image and video of Copilot, a ChatGPT […]
Add the Irish Flag into Word, Excel or PowerPoint
Put the Irish flag into Office documents, Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then use some Office picture tools to enhance the image. Great for St Patrick’s Day too. The same help applies for any other national flag, just look for a different source. Get the Ireland Flag Image We’ve opted for the Wikipedia site because it has an SVG […]
Five Free fonts for St Patrick’s Day
Here’s five fonts, free to use, to decorate your St Patrick’s Day documents or slides in Microsoft Office. They are all compatible with Microsoft Office both Windows and Mac Let’s start with three traditional Celtic style fonts. Irish Uncialfabeta Download Kells Unical Download Celtic Still Celtic style but curvier with thinner strokes. Download Irish Clovers […]
St Patrick’s Day shamrock, clover and more in Office
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) already have some Irish St Patrick’s Day themed graphics. Here’s a guide to what’s available for Shamrock, Four-leaf Clover, Leprechaun hats, pot of gold and Guinness graphics plus the exact Green and Orange colors to use. Along the way we’ll do our bit to reinforce various Irish stereotypes […]
Six best Emoji for St Patrick’s Day
Of course, there are emoji suitable for St Patrick’s Day; four leaf clover, shamrock, top hat, two for beer and a rainbow. Here they are, how they look on different devices and the codes to find them. Emoji for St Patrick’s Day Like all emoji, use with care on web sites and email because each […]
Discover the Content Status flag in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Tucked away in Microsoft Office is a little used tag ‘Content Status’ or just ‘Status’ that could help manage and find Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in organizations. Unfortunately, Content Status is only used once in Office features. It’s supported in Windows Explorer if you know where to look. On the Mac it’s all but […]
Critical Outlook security bug now patched after 11 months
A critical security bug in Outlook has now been patched by Microsoft, about 11 months AFTER hackers started exploiting the vulnerability. This is truly a serious security problem and it’s important to update your Microsoft Office now. Even Microsoft rates this problem as Critical, this from a company that normally downplays any security problems. Anyone […]
New Paste Values keyboard shortcut for Excel
A new-ish keyboard shortcut in Excel 365 (Windows/Mac) is very handy for pasting values into a cell or matching the destination formatting. A common Excel task is pasting content into a cell from non-Excel sources (a web page, document, email etc). Until now (and in Excel 2021/2019 etc) is quite possible though a little clumsy, […]
Word is getting Zoom shortcuts but there’s a price …
Microsoft is adding zoom shortcuts to Word for Windows and Mac to make Word more ‘browser like’ but to do that they’re changing long-standing keyboard shortcuts. These are keyboard shortcuts you might be using in a web browser and they already work for documents for Word in a browser. Zoom OUT Ctrl + – (dash) Mac: Cmd + […]
Excel’s five Pie Chart tricks
Excel has five different Pie Charts, here they all are, showing how to use each chart and tricks to make the charts look better. Microsoft has five Excel Pie Charts though one of them is really a donut/doughnut. Find them all at Insert | Charts; 2-D and 3-D Pie charts plus the Doughnut/Donut chart. Part […]
Excel Tables and Transpose – Solved!
There are several ways for an Excel table to be transposed (rows and columns) but none of the online suggestions work very well with tables. We’ve found a solution which transposes one table into a ‘swapped’ table i.e headers become column A and column A becomes the headers. Along the way we’ll explain a clever […]
Make list of Excel sheets/tabs – automatic and even better
Here’s an even better way to make an automatic list of tabs in an Excel workbook it works in Excel for Windows and Mac and bypasses some possible traps. Start with our article on Automatic worksheet/tabs list in Excel which explains how to add a list of Excel tabs/sheets with or without clickable links to […]
Function key tricks for Windows and Mac
Function Fn keys on your keyboard, though neglected, have a special role to play in Microsoft Office. Sometimes they combine with Ctrl, Alt or Shift keys to provide certain functions. Here’s how to use Fn keys when they’re on smaller laptop keyboards or totally missing! Plus how Microsoft Office’s help is no help at all […]
Complete Function Key features in Microsoft Word
Here’s a complete list of the Word Function Key features from fast access to Help, jumping around the document, doc panes, spelling, grammar and managing field codes. Let’s discuss in detail the functionality of the F-keys labelled F1 through F12 on your keyboard. F1 – Help, field jump F2 – move, Print Preview F3 – […]
Epsilon lower ε or upper case Ε symbols in Office and more
Insert the Epsilon upper case Ε, and Epsilon lower case ε symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Epsilon (uppercase Ε / lowercase ε) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. The uppercase isn’t commonly used outside of the Greek language, due to the similarity to […]
Upside-down ¿ or Spanish Question mark in Word
The inverted or Spanish question mark ¿ is available in Microsoft Word, regardless of language setting. There’s even an in-built shortcut. ¿ is most commonly used in Spanish for the start of a question sentence. This guide is mostly for people without a Spanish keyboard or who only occasionally need the inverted question mark. See […]
