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.
Scale text, larger or smaller, in Microsoft Word
Scaling Text in Word is another Microsoft Word text effect to make the text larger or smaller. Specifically, the Scale option stretches or contracts the horizontal width of the characters and spaces between. Here’s an example of normal, 150% and 66% scaling. To change the scaling of text in Word, select the text you want to change and either: On the […]
Chemistry in Microsoft Word with Chem4Word
Chemistry add-in for Word or Chem4Word is a way to “to insert and modify chemical information, such as labels, formulas and 2-D depictions, from within Microsoft Office Word” and works with Word for Windows including Word 365, Word 2021, 2019 and earlier. The Chemistry add-in started as a Microsoft Research project back in 2010 and […]
Outlook for Mac: Add 2022 FIFA World Cup calendar
Here’s how to keep track of your 2022 World Cup football team and when the live broadcasts will be in your time zone – all by adding a calendar to show in Microsoft Outlook for Mac, iPhone or iPad. Here’s all the 2022 World Cup fixtures in Outlook, on the left we’ve added two time […]
Complete Christmas emoji, fast find and copy
Need a Christmas emoji or symbol? Here’s a quick and searchable list of all the Xmas emoji for documents, sheets, slides, emails or messages that you can use or copy. This list has all the Christmas related emoji we can think of, the broadest sense both secular and religious. These emoji are supported (with different […]
6 Outlook tricks for Soccer World Cup fans and ‘normal’ people
Here’s some Outlook tricks to help planning for the Soccer World Cup or any other event. (Obviously, we’re joking about ‘normal’ people😄. Our football ⚽ loving friends are sure they are normal and pity humans with no interest in the round-ball game.) We’ve already looked at how to import a list of all World Cup […]
Use the six Soccer icons in Microsoft Office
In the Microsoft Office Icons there are six Soccer (football) related graphics, a ball, running player and a goal net with two variations on each. Start with those plain icons to make more colorful designs with a few clicks. There are also some Soccer ⚽ emoji in Office Along the way, we also found a […]
Outlook.com attachments to OneDrive: unanswered questions
There are unanswered questions about Microsoft’s ‘move’ of Outlook.com attachments to OneDrive storage. Microsoft is being quite ‘opaque’ about the details of the change. On 1 Feb 2023 the space used by attachments in an Outlook.com mailbox will be counted against the OneDrive space quota not the mailbox limit. That’s a significant change which leads […]
Getting Microsoft Forms results into Excel
Microsoft Forms can export survey/quiz results to an Excel workbook, here’s how to do that easy and efficiently and the limitations that Microsoft hasn’t fixed for most customers. The current method of getting Microsoft Forms results into Excel isn’t very elegant. It doesn’t make use of Excel’s excellent data import and update features. Microsoft has […]
What are Outlook .nst files? Can they be deleted?
If you look in the Outlook desktop for Windows data folder, you might see a .NST file as well as the usual .OST and .PST data files. Office Watch explains what a .NST file is, should you do a backup and whether it’s safe to delete. An .NST file is in the same folder as […]
What are Outlook Groups and Microsoft 365 Groups?
You might see mentions of “Outlook Groups” or even Groups appearing in your Outlook navigation pane. What are Outlook Groups, Microsoft 365 Groups and what can you do with them? For many people, the first thing they know about Groups is when the name appears in their Outlook, either Outlook desktop Windows/Mac (left) or Outlook […]
Control Contractions in Microsoft Word for Windows / Mac
Deep inside Microsoft Word’s (Windows/Mac) grammar checks are some detailed settings like one to look for contractions such as: I’m, you’re, shouldn’t, couldn’t and haven’t. These contractions are normal and accepted by Word 2016 Windows/Mac in it’s standard settings but you can change that. Formal Language, Consider avoiding contractions You’ll see a warning ‘Formal Language’ […]
Two ways to get one line of Word with left and right aligned text
Two ways to put left and right aligned text on the same line in Microsoft Word. There’s the commonly used option and the less well-known choice. BONUS: putting left, center and right aligned text on one line. We’ll show how to make Left and Right aligned text looking like this. You’ll often see it in […]
FAX ℻ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Facsimile sign or Fax symbol ℻ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. FAX ℻ symbol is a single character with the letters FAX, normally used to prefix a telephone number in a letter heading or footer. For younger readers: a Fax machine was a […]
Eight places to find missing OneNote pages or notebooks
Occasionally OneNote pages or whole notebooks go missing … here’s eight places to try finding them again. Don’t Panic OneNote saves everything … it was designed that way from Day One. It’s unlikely that something has truly been erased. More likely that the page, section or notebook is hiding somewhere in the depths of OneNote, […]
Draw or scribble on your Outlook emails
Outlook for Windows lets you draw into emails. It’s an extension of the existing drawing features in Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and Office 2019. Outlook’s message ribbon has Draw tab but unlike Word (where you can draw directly onto the document), the drawing tools only work in certain situations. Drawing […]
100 points 💯 emoji in Word, PowerPoint and Office
Type the Hundred points 💯 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. 100 points 💯 symbol is also known as ’100’, ‘Keep it 100’ or ‘Keeping it real’. How 100 points 💯 looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of how 100 points 💯 looks in […]
