Clever picture borders in Excel and PowerPoint
Like Word, PowerPoint and Excel also have options to add borders to pictures to add that extra oomph to your work. Users can choose between fairly simple borders or add some further complex, fancy styles to their images. If all this seems very familiar, it’s because the same picture tools are available in the main […]
Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes 😸 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes 😸 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes 😸 emoji is a variant of the grinning face emoji or the cat face emoji, which is yellow on most platforms. How Grinning Cat with […]
Why is Pi 𝜋 missing from Windows 11 and Windows 10?
The Windows Emoji Panel has its problems which are amply demonstrated by a common symbol that’s hiding in the long symbol lists – the Pi symbol 𝜋 . We’ll explain where it’s hiding and generally grumble about this part of Windows 11 and 10. The Emoji Panel is in Windows 11 and 10, access it […]
Fast Microsoft 365 repair from the command prompt
If Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) is misbehaving, try the Repair option. If that’s also causing trouble, there’s a hidden command prompt option. For any ‘Click to Run’ installations of Office for Windows (mostly Microsoft 365, Office 2019) there are Repair options available to fix common problems. Among these troubles are an Office program […]
Excel 4 macros are now blocked and about time too
At long last, Excel v4 macros are being blocked from running in Excel 365 by default. A move that greatly reduces the security risk from infected attachments in Excel 365 and Excel 2021. Excel v4 macros are a very old form of programming, literally 30 years old. It allowed macros to be embedded into cells. […]
Rainbow 🌈 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
How to insert the Rainbow 🌈 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Rainbow 🌈 emoji depicts a colorful arc of a rainbow, usually used to express positivity, hope, good fortune. The rainbow flag was designed and has been adopted by the LGBT community, there SVG […]
Five ways to divide numbers in Excel
If you thought dividing one number by another was simple, think again. Excel has five different ways to divide numbers and we’ll explain them all. Basic Division Obviously, there is the basic concept of division in Excel using / in a formula. Like in Excel we can use the formula =[@[Total Sales]/@[Number of Tickets Sold]]. […]
OK Hand sign 👌 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Type the OK Hand sign 👌 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. OK Hand sign 👌 emoji is mostly used to symbolize approval, agreement, all that is well but there are other meanings. Scuba Divers use 👌 hand sign to confirm they are ‘OK’ and […]
Excel Sheet View solves a collaboration problem
Excel Sheet View is Microsoft’s fix for a problem when sharing an Excel list or table among many people. We’ll explain how it works and what’s happening behind the scenes. A shared Excel list can be sorted or filtered in many different ways. It’s quite possible that two people can look at the same worksheet […]
LucidChart in Microsoft Office
LucidChart is a very nice diagramming and flowchart tool which is integrated with Microsoft Office for Windows or Mac. Office has diagram tools via Insert | Shapes but they aren’t very elegant. They serve for simple uses but not a lot more. LucidChart is better than the inbuilt Office diagram tools and not as expensive […]
Cat Face 🐱 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Cat Face 🐱 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Cat Face 🐱 emoji is a variant of the grinning face emoji, usually depicted as yellow on all platforms. How Cat Face 🐱 looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of how […]
Fast screen shot or clipping in Office
There’s a simple way to copy a screen image into Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook or OneNote. Word, PowerPoint and other Office apps for Windows (Office 2010 and later) has a Screenshot option to paste an image from any open program window into a document or email. Go to the Insert tab of the programs, there’s a Screenshot […]
Fast stock charting with Excel and StockHistory()
Excel 365 makes it incredibly easy to get past price and volume info for stock, fund and currency exchange data, then convert that into a professional-looking chart. Some may remember the days when stock prices were added manually from a newspaper. Now a single Excel cell formula can grab the history of thousands of traded […]
Dog Face 🐶 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Dog Face 🐶 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Aside from the obvious the Dog Face 🐶 emoji can used as a variant of the Grinning smiley face emoji. How Dog Face 🐶 looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples […]
Caffeine level easy comparison in Excel
How to compare caffeine levels in coffee, tea, soda and other drinks from an Excel spreadsheet. The Guardian’s Datablog has interesting analysis of caffeine levels in different foods. Sounds boring until you read that: reduced sugar colas have almost double the caffeine of a regular, sugared, cola. 1 cup of coffee can have as much […]
Change Picture from clipboard in Word and Office
Replacing images in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook is a lot easier using the ‘Change Picture’ option, especially now you can change to insert an image on your clipboard. We’ll show you a step by step on how to do it. There might not be one simple keyboard shortcut, but it is a lot better […]
