All about Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and earlier versions.
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 […]
Switch Microsoft Accounts in Word, Excel and PowerPoint Without Signing Out
Juggling a work login, a personal Microsoft account and maybe a volunteer role? You don’t need to sign out and back in to Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Microsoft 365, Office 2024, Office 2021 and earlier for Windows lets you switch Microsoft accounts in Office with two clicks from the account menu at the top right […]
KB5002907 Broke Office 2016 and 2019: How to Get Office Back
If Word, Excel or Outlook suddenly says “Unlicensed Product”, or Office has vanished from your PC completely, Microsoft’s KB5002907 update is the likely cause. The update was meant only to fix stuck Microsoft 365 installations, but it deactivated or removed perpetual copies of Office 2016 and Office 2019 instead. Microsoft has now paused the rollout. […]
Microsoft 365 “Kill Switch” Publisher Stops After October 2026
Microsoft is set to permanently disable Publisher 365 for Microsoft 365 subscribers on October 1, 2026, not just end support, with a hard “kill switch” that will block opening or editing .pub files after that date. This aggressive move means the desktop publishing tool will stop functioning entirely for subscription users, a major shift from […]
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 […]
Microsoft 365 Companion Apps Die December 16: Uninstall Them Now
Microsoft is killing its Microsoft 365 companion apps, Calendar, People and Files, barely a year after it started forcing them onto Windows 11 business PCs. They stop working by December 16, 2026, but the deadline that matters is now: security fixes have already stopped, so every copy is running unpatched. Your files, meetings and contacts […]
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 […]
Outlook Change Organizer: Hand Off Meetings Without Canceling
Outlook is getting a Change organizer option that lets you hand a meeting or recurring series to a colleague instead of canceling it and sending new invitations. It rolls out worldwide from late September to late October 2026 in Outlook on the web, new Outlook for Windows and the Teams calendar. It’s switched on automatically, […]
Word Spell Check: 10 Hidden Options You’re Probably Missing
Clicking a red underlined word in Microsoft Word shows more than a few suggested spellings. Word’s spell check menus hide ten useful options, including Change All to fix every copy of a typo at once, Add to AutoCorrect so Word fixes that mistake for you in the future, and Ignore All, which only appears when […]
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 […]
Word 365 crashes when third-party apps fill templates, how to fix it
Word 365 is crashing when third-party document assembly, case management and practice management programs try to generate documents from templates. Microsoft has confirmed the bug in Version 2608 but offers no fix yet. Here’s how to check whether you’re affected and what to do about it. Microsoft says that after updating to Version 2608 (Build […]
Grok AI in Microsoft 365: What Copilot Users Need to Know Before Turning It On
Microsoft has added Grok AI from SpaceXAI as a model option in Copilot for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Before you turn it on, there are privacy trade-offs and restrictions you need to understand. Choosing Grok means your data leaves Microsoft’s servers, the feature is blocked in Europe and the UK, and your admin has to […]
Excel Copy and Paste Broken by Microsoft’s Own Security Update — How to Fix It
Microsoft’s September 2026 security update for Excel has broken copy and paste for users across Excel 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024. Update KB5002914, released on September 8, silently kills paste operations with no error message and no warning, creating a serious data integrity risk. Here is how to check whether you are affected, how to […]
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 […]
September 2026 Patch Tuesday: 20 Critical Office Bugs to Fix Now
Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday landed on September 8, 2026 with a record 966 fixes, and Office took the worst of it: 124 patches across Word, Excel, Outlook and the shared code, 20 of them rated Critical. Excel alone has six Critical remote code execution holes, which means a single booby trapped workbook can run […]
