Revealed: What is a Service-Side Change in Office and how to find them
A “service-side change” in Microsoft Office is Microsoft’s way of quietly changing how Office works, without updating your apps, asking Read More
Emergency Office Update: What Every Customer Needs to Know Now
Microsoft has just released an emergency or out-of-band (OOB) security update to fix a serious Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability or Read More
How to Import PDFs into Excel and Auto-Refresh Data Using Power Query
Import PDF data into Excel and refresh it automatically. Microsoft Excel 365 or 2024 for Windows has a refreshable PDF Read More
KeyTips: The Fastest Way to Use Microsoft Office Without a Mouse
Wanna be a better, faster Office user? Impress your friends? Be the envy of women and men for miles around? Read More
Office for Mac has KeyTips: Faster Keyboard Navigation
Microsoft quietly added KeyTips to Office for Mac, giving users the same faster, keyboard-driven access to the Ribbon that Windows Read More
Why did Windows move my files to OneDrive? (What it is & how to fix it)
Did your Documents, Desktop or Pictures suddenly “live” in OneDrive? If you’re wondering why your files moved to OneDrive, you’re Read More
Office 2024 for Windows & Mac: Features, Pricing and Everything You Need to Know
Office 2024 is Microsoft’s latest standalone productivity suite for Windows and Mac, with a one-time no-subscription purchase for Windows or Read More
How to Fix Excel Copilot “#Connect” Errors
Microsoft Excel’s Copilot() can show #CONNECT “Too many requests” errors if you use the function incorrectly. Copilot() is different from Read More
AI Coding Tricks for Microsoft Office: Hard tasks made simple with AI help
AI makes hard tasks in Microsoft Office so very easy, not just for typing or formatting, but for writing code, Read More
Rearranging Text Instantly with free AI: Smart Tricks for Microsoft Word & Excel
Transform how you work with text using free AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Meta AI. In this guide, Read More
Name Parsing: Smarter AI Way to Split First, Middle & Last Names
Struggling to separate first, middle and last names in messy data lists or join first/last names? Traditional Excel tools or Read More
Convert Excel’s COPILOT() Output into Static Cells – Stop Auto-Updates & Preserve Values
Get greater control over your Excel workbooks by converting dynamic COPILOT() responses into static, editable values that won’t change unexpectedly. Read More
Combine Excel Arrays with HStack() or VStack()
It can be fairly challenging to combine data in Excel. There are two new functions HStack() and VStack() to combine Read More
Copilot Chat in Word, Excel & PowerPoint, a Practical Guide for Microsoft 365 Users
Microsoft is now embedding Copilot Chat directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint apps, giving users a conversational AI interface right next Read More
Turn Copilot Off in Microsoft 365: How to Guide for Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook
If you’re finding Microsoft 365 Copilot intrusive or just prefer a cleaner Office view, you can turn AI off across Read More
Office 2016 gets surprise 'late' security updates
Microsoft has quietly delivered another round of security updates for Office 2016, even thought the software officially ended support two Read More