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Getting More from PowerPoint Designer
PowerPoint Designer should just be the start of making a great looking presentation. A few manual adjustments will transform Microsoft’s automated suggestions into something awesome and unique. All the design helpers in PowerPoint and Office have the same problem. Everyone uses them and so a lot of slides or docs end up looking the same. Instead of […]
Make PowerPoint Designer better, add some words
PowerPoint’s Designer suggestions work better if you add some words to the slide first. If you add some broad keywords or title, it gives Designer clues for the most appropriate look. Designer uses the text to choose from the many templates available. The words don’t have to appear in the final presentation, just while selecting […]
Using Designer for more eye-catching PowerPoint slides
PowerPoint Designer is perhaps the most interesting and useful feature in PowerPoint 365. It turns a basic slide into something eye-catching. Here’s how to use Design Ideas effectively and wisely. It’s a very quick and easy way to take a couple of Design Elements and create a full-blooded Custom Style for your Slide Show with a […]
Get over 3,000 more great Office icons from Google
Google has more than 3,000 Icons available to add into Microsoft Office documents from either SVG files or a font. Material Symbols are a collection of small icons, much like the Icons available in modern Office. As SVG files they can be recolored and changed from their standard black line look. Use them in Word […]
Croissant 🥐 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Add the Croissant 🥐 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. I have to declare a personal interest in this article because the Croissant 🥐 is an essential part of my breakfast. No morning is complete without the “Three C’s” – Coffee, Computer and Croissant […]
Sketchy line option in Office for Windows and Mac
Office for Windows and Mac has three special outline styles for the borders of shapes and text boxes. Called ‘Sketched’ or ‘Sketchy‘ because they have a hand-drawn line look. It’s a nice little addition to Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook. Let’s see how it works plus some details and limitations that Microsoft hasn’t mentioned. All […]
How hackers trick you to open infected documents
Here’s how to avoid the tricks hackers use to infect your computer via Office documents. Microsoft has added features to Office that should make it harder to infect your computer via a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document. Hackers have found ways to trick people into bypassing those warnings and enable the viruses in the document. […]
Telephone location ✆ emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Telephone location ✆ symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Telephone location ✆ symbol is supposed to be used as a sign for a phone box or booth but can be used for any ‘phone’ purpose. See also: Telephone Receiver 📞 Emoji In Word, Excel, […]
Office Watch annual fundraising drive with Thank You gift
If you enjoy the stuff we do here at Office Watch we’d really appreciate you chucking a few dollars at our annual fundraising drive – and we have a new 2023 ebook for all contributors as a special gift. Donate via Paypal or credit card. The financial support of readers is the only thing keeping […]
Table of Contents basics in Word
Let’s explore the basic options for making a Table of Contents (TOC) in a Word document. Table of Contents is very easy to do in Word and it’s not just for people who are making books. TOC’s can be useful in any long document such as a contract. Beyond the simple Table of Contents there […]
Choose the words to show in a Word Table of Contents
Choose specific words from a heading to appear in the Table of Contents (TOC) of a Word documents, instead of the whole heading. Welcome to the strange world of Word’s Style Separators. We’ve already explained Lead in emphasis which is easy to use. Simply select the text you want at the start of a paragraph […]
Table of Contents styles in Word
There are many different ways to change the look a Table of Contents from a Microsoft Word document. The standard ways, taught in most classes, force you to format your document in a way that suits Word. We’ll show you how to get a Table of Contents (TOC) from a document formatted the way you […]
Four Word tricks to shrink a Table of Contents
Four simple Microsoft Word tricks to squeeze a Table of Contents (or Table of Figures etc) into fewer pages. Here’s an example of a Table of Contents (ToC) that’s grown too big using Word’s default settings. It’s creeped over to a second page. We’ve seen ToC’s for big documents that take up many, many pages. […]
All Word’s Table of Contents options
Microsoft Word has many Table of Contents options, a lot of them hidden away. Here’s a complete list of all the switches available with a Word {TOC … } field code. We’ve covered the basics of Table of Contents and some Table of Contents tricks already, here we’ll go in-depth with the TOC field codes […]
Tricks to using YouTube videos into PowerPoint
Online videos from YouTube and other sources can be played within a PowerPoint slide and there are tricks to make the presentation better and work around some limitations. The ability to insert online videos from YouTube and other sources has been in PowerPoint for some time. Insert | Media | Video | Online Video But […]
Signatures for all occasions in Outlook
How to have email signatures in Outlook for all the different roles in your life. Most of us wear different ‘hats’ – a family member, friend, person, employee or volunteer. Each of those ‘hats’ can have a different Outlook email signature. Which Outlook signature you use depends on the situation and, perhaps, the email account […]
