All about Microsoft Office for Apple Mac. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook on macOS, Microsoft 365 for Mac, Office 2021 for Mac and earlier versions.
Word multi-level Numbering
Word has an amazing range of options for automatically numbering your document headings or paragraphs. Even more amazing is my visit to an office. I found staff going through a long document, laboriously numbering headings and sub-headings by hand! They been doing this for years and weren’t happy when shown this button on the ribbon, it […]
Witches Graphics To Make The Perfect Halloween Design
Here’s 11 witch graphics you’re welcome to use for Halloween. We made them with Dall-E while testing it’s ability to insert text into a graphic. Dall-E 3 adds text fairly well though sometimes it gets the spelling wrong. Microsoft Designer’s current ‘Generate Image’ feature can’t handle text at all. Instead of deleting our Halloween themed […]
Color selection in Office for Mac, complete
Office for Mac has quite different and extensible color selection options for text, shapes, pages etc. that are the envy of Office for Windows. We’ll explain them all, eyedropper, swatch, color wheel or sliders, palettes and even pencils. Choose from the same range of colors as Windows, but in many different ways and more. All […]
All the Color Picking tools in Microsoft Office
Here’s all the match colors, color picking or color grab tools in Microsoft Office for Windows or Windows itself. While Office for Mac users have it a lot easier with one central ‘eyedropper’ to choose a color from the screen. Naming the color picking tool isn’t consistent in Microsoft Office, it’s called an Eyedropper in […]
Two military discount opportunities for Microsoft 365
There are two different year-round Microsoft 365 discount offers available to US and Canadian military in all branches. Office-Watch.com talked about these Military Appreciation offers before, going back more than a decade. There are TWO different military related discounts – the Military Appreciation Edition and the Home Use Program. Military Appreciation Edition The Military Appreciation […]
Microsoft 365’s secret plan for the US government
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is now fully deploying an extra-special secret version of Microsoft 365 to high-ranking areas including the Secretary of Defense. Called ‘DOD365-Secret’ or ‘DOD365-Sec’, this Microsoft 365 plan is one of the DoD’s first moves into cloud computing and 21st Century collaboration. The new system has been trialed since January. […]
Halloween emoji, fast find and copy
Need a Halloween emoji or symbol? Here’s a quick and searchable list of more than 30 spooky, scary emoji for documents, sheets, slides, emails or messages that you can use or copy. In Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and Office 2019 there are also Halloween icons and symbols for Word, Powerpoint and more or see all […]
Seven free Halloween fonts for Word, PowerPoint and Office
There are plenty of creepy Halloween themed fonts available for free to work on Windows or Mac with Word, PowerPoint or other Office apps. Here’s seven that caught our eye plus one that you probably already have. All of these work in both Windows and Mac, mostly TrueType fonts. They are licensed for personal use, […]
Add Skeleton and Skull to Word, PowerPoint and Office
Office has various options for graphics or images of skeletons or skulls – perfect for Halloween or other gory, scary uses in Word docs, PowerPoint slides or Outlook emails. We can’t offer a 12-foot skeleton, complete with creepy glowing eyes. For this 3.56 meter monster you have to hunt through Home Depot stores in the […]
Make your own Halloween costume pack image
Create your own fun, satirical ‘Halloween costume’ pack in the style of a popular meme using just Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. Use this article as a year-round example of how to overlay one image over another plus adding text to a picture. Take a blank Halloween costume image, add an image and some text. Something […]
PowerPoint Cameo puts your video selfie into a slide
Microsoft PowerPoint’s Cameo lets you put a live camera feed into your slides. The camera feed can be moved, resized, cropped, and styled just like any other image. Designer in PowerPoint can also be used to add flair to slides that use cameo. Cameo is already in Windows and Mac and now also in Powerpoint […]
Xlookup is truly a great Excel function
One of the most commonly used and confusing Excel functions is much better in Excel 365 and Excel 2021. Vlookup() has a new, better and easier replacement Xlookup(). It’s a truly good and useful addition to Excel, some might call it a godsend. Xlookup is available in Excel 365 for Windows/Mac/Apple/Android plus Excel 2021 for […]
Anesthetists discover how NOT to use Excel
A British medical office has made a right mess of selecting trainee anesthetists by the misuse of Excel. Let’s look at what happened and some ways you can avoid similar mistakes. As told in The Register, the UK Anesthetic National Recruitment Office (ANRO) had the job of selecting candidates from across seven regions to get […]
How Excel’s hidden CalcChain can catch data cheats
There’s a hidden part of Excel which can be used to catch ‘data cheats’ or people who tweak workbooks to get the results they want. There’s a news story about research into honesty, the academic is being accused, ironically, of dishonesty in their findings. The Professor is suspected of tampering with source data to change […]
Bharat or Bhārat (India) in Microsoft Word
The alternative name for India is Bhārat and that term is now being used, somewhat controversially, by the government. How does Microsoft Word handle “Bharat” and what are your choices for either using the word or not. Even if you’re not interested in the name change, it’s a practical lesson in what’s possible in the […]
What is Dall-E and what it’ll do for Microsoft 365 customers
Microsoft is adding Dall-E to new services for Microsoft 365 (Designer), Bing and Office (starting with Word). Let’s look at what Dall-E is, what it can do for you and the fun to be had. In short, Dall-E turns text into an image with often good and sometimes funny results. Dall-E converts a text request […]
