Choose meeting reminders style in Outlook for Mac
Choose from two ways to display event notifications or reminders in Outlook for Mac. Either familiar Outlook display or integrated with macOS Notifications. There’s a catch which Microsoft buries in their fine print. You have to use the ‘New Outlook 365 for Mac’ which is still very much a crippled ‘work in progress’ and the […]
Outlook Print Calendar Options -a Daily/Weekly/Monthly plan on paper
Outlook provides you with many printing options to put your calendar onto real, physical paper or save to PDF. Print and customize your calendar information, be it your daily schedules, weekly schedules or monthly plans. It also allows you to print specific dates you want to. It might seem ‘old fashioned’ but, printed calendars have […]
How to print a blank calendar from Outlook
Here’s how to quickly print a blank calendar from Outlook with no appointments, notes etc – monthly, weekly or a single day. Use a blank printout to roughly plan a week or month in a way not possible in Outlook. Or save the printout to a PDF that you can write on with a virtual […]
Outlook’s upside-down or flipping image rotation problem
Why does the same picture appear rotated sideways or flipped in Outlook for Windows/Mac but right side up elsewhere? It’s an image annoyance in older versions of Microsoft Outlook which we’ll explain. Outlook for Windows or Mac lets you preview a picture by clicking on the attachment icon but sometimes the preview is the sideways […]
Outlook for Mac: Add 2022 FIFA World Cup calendar
Here’s how to keep track of your 2022 World Cup football team and when the live broadcasts will be in your time zone – all by adding a calendar to show in Microsoft Outlook for Mac, iPhone or iPad. Here’s all the 2022 World Cup fixtures in Outlook, on the left we’ve added two time […]
Put 2022 World Cup fixtures in your Outlook calendar
Don’t miss a match in the 2022 FIFA World Cup (soccer) in Qatar. Here’s how to keep track of your team and when the live broadcast will be in your time zone – all by adding a calendar to Microsoft Outlook. Where to get reliable match details and add them to Outlook. There are 55 […]
6 Outlook tricks for Soccer World Cup fans and ‘normal’ people
Here’s some Outlook tricks to help planning for the Soccer World Cup or any other event. (Obviously, we’re joking about ‘normal’ people😄. Our football ⚽ loving friends are sure they are normal and pity humans with no interest in the round-ball game.) We’ve already looked at how to import a list of all World Cup […]
Outlook.com attachments to OneDrive: unanswered questions
There are unanswered questions about Microsoft’s ‘move’ of Outlook.com attachments to OneDrive storage. Microsoft is being quite ‘opaque’ about the details of the change. On 1 Feb 2023 the space used by attachments in an Outlook.com mailbox will be counted against the OneDrive space quota not the mailbox limit. That’s a significant change which leads […]
What are Outlook .nst files? Can they be deleted?
If you look in the Outlook desktop for Windows data folder, you might see a .NST file as well as the usual .OST and .PST data files. Office Watch explains what a .NST file is, should you do a backup and whether it’s safe to delete. An .NST file is in the same folder as […]
What are Outlook Groups and Microsoft 365 Groups?
You might see mentions of “Outlook Groups” or even Groups appearing in your Outlook navigation pane. What are Outlook Groups, Microsoft 365 Groups and what can you do with them? For many people, the first thing they know about Groups is when the name appears in their Outlook, either Outlook desktop Windows/Mac (left) or Outlook […]
Two ways to get one line of Word with left and right aligned text
Two ways to put left and right aligned text on the same line in Microsoft Word. There’s the commonly used option and the less well-known choice. BONUS: putting left, center and right aligned text on one line. We’ll show how to make Left and Right aligned text looking like this. You’ll often see it in […]
FAX ℻ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Facsimile sign or Fax symbol ℻ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. FAX ℻ symbol is a single character with the letters FAX, normally used to prefix a telephone number in a letter heading or footer. For younger readers: a Fax machine was a […]
Draw or scribble on your Outlook emails
Outlook for Windows lets you draw into emails. It’s an extension of the existing drawing features in Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and Office 2019. Outlook’s message ribbon has Draw tab but unlike Word (where you can draw directly onto the document), the drawing tools only work in certain situations. Drawing […]
100 points 💯 emoji in Word, PowerPoint and Office
Type the Hundred points 💯 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. 100 points 💯 symbol is also known as ’100’, ‘Keep it 100’ or ‘Keeping it real’. How 100 points 💯 looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of how 100 points 💯 looks in […]
Face with Tears of joy 😂 emoji in Word, Office
Type the Face with Tears of joy 😂 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Face with Tears of joy 😂 emoji is one of the most popular, if not THE most commonly used emoji. Also known as Laughing Crying, Laughing Tears, LOL (Laugh Out Loud) or […]
Do it while you can, a personal email address with Outlook.com
For a limited time, you can setup your own personal email address with your own domain name, using Outlook.com. The personalized email address feature means that you can have your own email address, such as Sherlock@Holmes.com or John@DrWatson.co.uk using the Outlook.com system as your mailbox. This personal email feature of Outlook.com has been around for […]