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Microsoft 365 Pro vs Premium: Is $1,200 a Year Worth It?
Microsoft’s new $99.99/month Pro plan costs six times more than Premium — and the extras are surprisingly thin. Here’s what you actually get for that $1,000 premium, who should consider it, and why most people should stay put. Microsoft 365 Pro is the new top tier of consumer Microsoft 365. It costs a whopping $99.99 […]
Microsoft 365 OneDrive Storage Cut: What to Do Before You Lose 4 TB
Microsoft is slashing OneDrive storage for Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscribers, replacing each person’s 1 TB with a shared 2 TB pool — a drop from 6 TB to 2 TB at the same price. The change hits new subscriptions on October 8, 2026, and existing plans at renewal from May 2, 2027. Here’s […]
Copilot in Word Now Cites Its Sources, Here’s How to Use It
Microsoft’s September 2026 update brings two Copilot upgrades to Word 365: citations that show where Copilot’s answers come from and the ability to rearrange images by typing a prompt. Neither feature has appeared on our test machines yet, but here’s what Microsoft promises and how to get the most out of both when they arrive. […]
How to Extract, Merge, Encrypt and Compress PDFs in OneDrive
Microsoft 365 subscribers can extract pages, merge files, add password encryption and compress PDFs directly in OneDrive — no Adobe Acrobat needed. These built-in PDF tools work in the browser version of OneDrive and are available with Microsoft 365 Basic, Personal, Family and business plans. Here’s how to use each one. We’ve already explained what […]
GPT 6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in Copilot: What to Pick and When
Microsoft 365 Copilot now lets you choose two more AI models, OpenAI’s GPT 6.1 Sol and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat, Cowork, and Copilot Studio. Each model has different strengths, and picking the right one can save you time and give you better results. Here’s what’s changed, which model suits […]
Hidden Word Options That Make Better PDF Files
Word’s default PDF export creates a basic file, but hidden options let you make smaller PDFs, add navigation bookmarks, include accessibility features and even password-protect the result. Here’s where to find those options and how to use them. PDF’s made from Word can be smaller than usual for faster sending or to get under size […]
What anyone can do with PDFs in OneDrive PDF Editor: Free Tools You Didn’t Know You Had
OneDrive has a built-in PDF editor that lets you highlight, annotate, rotate pages and more — right in your browser, no extra software needed. Whether you have a free Microsoft account or a Microsoft 365 subscription, here’s what you can do and how to get started. Anyone with a Microsoft free account can view, mark […]
Convert Text to Dates in Excel with the Paste Special Add Zero Trick
Dates imported or pasted into Excel often arrive as text — they look like dates but Excel can’t use them in formulas or sorting. One quick fix is the Paste Special Add Zero trick. It forces Excel to convert text into a real date value by adding zero, which changes the data type without changing […]
Microsoft Copilot’s New Pay-Per-Use Pricing: What USL, UBB and FinOps Mean for You
Microsoft is changing how Copilot is priced — and it could affect your bill. Alongside the familiar flat-rate subscription, Microsoft is rolling out usage-based billing for advanced AI features. That means three new terms every Copilot user and admin needs to understand: USL (User Subscription License), UBB (Usage-Based Billing) and FinOps. Here’s what they mean, […]
Two Microsoft 365 Licenses on One PC: Use Work and Personal Plans Together
Paying for Microsoft 365 at home while your employer gives you another plan at work? You don’t need a second copy of Office, or a second computer, to use both. Microsoft 365 for Windows can hold two or more Microsoft 365 licenses in the same installation and switches to the matching plan when you change […]
October 2026 Office Changes: Publisher Dies, Office 2021 Support Ends
Publisher 365 stops working on October 1, 2026, and that is just the first of eight October 2026 Office changes. Within days, Exchange Web Services starts shutting down in Exchange Online, Word’s Similarity Checker is deleted on October 3 and Teams live chat closes on October 5. Then on October 13, Office 2021 loses all […]
Excel Linked Picture: The Hidden Trick Behind Pro Dashboards
Excel’s Linked Picture turns any block of cells into a live picture you can drop anywhere in your workbook. Change a number in the source cells and the picture redraws instantly, colors, conditional formatting and all. It’s the hidden trick behind most polished Excel dashboards, and it’s already in your copy of Excel 365, Excel […]
Merriam-Webster new words vs Microsoft Word
Merriam-Webster has added 1,400 new words and definitions to its dictionary, including looksmaxxing, crashout and Rickroll. We typed the headline internet slang into Microsoft Word to see which words get the red squiggly underline. Word already knows some surprisingly fresh slang but still flags a prank that’s been around since 2007. If you use these […]
Microsoft Office Updates: A No-Win Scenario and How to Stay Safe
Updating Microsoft Office is a no-win scenario. Install updates automatically and you risk buggy patches that break features or crash your computer. Delay updates and you leave yourself exposed to zero-day security attacks. It’s a dilemma Star Trek fans will recognize as the Kobayashi Maru, the famous test where every choice leads to trouble. Here’s […]
Put a Picture Inside Another Picture in Office, Even at an Angle
Dragging one image on top of another almost never looks right. The moment the screen or frame in the background photo sits at an angle, the picture you drop on it looks pasted on. There is a better way built into Word, Excel and PowerPoint that takes about two minutes: draw a shape over the […]
AI at Work Roadmap: Microsoft Renames the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft has renamed the Microsoft 365 Roadmap to the AI at Work Roadmap. Your bookmarks still work and nothing has moved, but from September 2026 the list gets a lot longer, with Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Dataverse entries pouring into the same page you use to track Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams. If you […]
