How Mark of the Web stops bad document infections
All about Microsoft’s latest Office macro protection feature to stop virus infected documents loading nasties onto a computer. Mark of the Web MOTW is a relatively new way to protect your machine. Over 2022, a new layer of macro protection was added to Microsoft 365 for Windows. It’s something new in Windows that Office apps […]
Presenter Coach makes for better PowerPoint presentations
Presenter Coach or Rehearse in PowerPoint for Windows helps polish your presentation before going before an audience. This cloud-based feature is PowerPoint Online (web browser) and PowerPoint 365 for Windows If you don’t have Coach in your version of PowerPoint, try it from the web version of PowerPoint. Getting Started with Coach Make your slide […]
Making pictures smaller – some more options.
There are many ways to make pictures smaller, in both senses of the word. Here are three more options including great news for Windows 11 & Windows 10 users plus an important warning. Converting images into a smaller file size is sometimes essential. The large digital camera images (can be 4-6MB each) can be too […]
Use the Force with your PowerPoint & online backgrounds
The official Star Wars web site has some pictures that you can use as virtual backgrounds for your Zoom or Teams online calls. Also great for PowerPoint slides. Go to https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-backgrounds , click on an image to open the full version then right-click on the picture and choose ‘Save image as …’ or equivalent on […]
Star Wars look in Word and PowerPoint
Whether you’d like to join the Force or make fun of it, here’s how to get the famous Star Wars look in Word, PowerPoint and Office. See Star Wars movie opening and end credits in PowerPoint Star Wars font There are a few ‘Star Wars’ fonts available. All probably in breach of many copyright rules but […]
Happy Star Wars Day – with Microsoft Office
Office-Watch.com has Star Wars Day covered with a series of articles which add the spirit of the Rebel Alliance or the Empire to your Microsoft Office documents, workbooks and slides. Star Wars Day is 4th May each year … “May the fourth be with you” geddit? Star Wars fonts Star Wars look in Word and […]
PowerPoint trim video reaches the web
The long-standing Trim Video feature in PowerPoint desktop has now reached the browser based version as well as in the desktop Windows and Mac versions. If you’ve ever used Trim Video in either PowerPoint for Windows or Mac, this ‘new’ feature will be familiar in PowerPoint on the web. Any video saved with the presentation […]
PowerPoint video audio compression tricks and traps
PowerPoint offers compression embedded video and audio files, reducing the overall file size. But these options aren’t where you might expect to find them, aren’t selective and need to be used with care. There is compression option for media files (video or audio) to a suitable quality level and make it compact. This feature will […]
Eye 👁 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Eye 👁 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Eye 👁 symbol is used for decoration “Look Here” or “See this”. Even as a fancy bullet point in Word or PowerPoint. How Eye 👁 looks in different fonts. Two Windows fonts […]
Better Bullets in Word with SVG Icons
Get better and more creative bullet lists in Word using an Icon or SVG graphic in Word or PowerPoint, you just have to be a little sneaky. Icons (Microsoft’s name for SVG graphics) would seem to be ideal for creative bullets. SVG’s can be resized, colored and adjusted without loss of quality. They are available […]
Get rid of Teams buttons from your Office ribbon
Teams button creep into Office and Outlook ribbons because Microsoft tries to promote itself. Here’s how to get rid of it or any other Office buttons you don’t want. Teams icons prominently appear on Office ribbons, like this one on the Outlook Calendar ribbon. or this with Meet Now video conferencing included as well. Or […]
Ink to Text tool in Microsoft 365 for Windows
Word, PowerPoint and OneNote 365 for Windows have digital ‘ink to text‘ feature to not only handwrite into documents but also edit text and add bullet or numbered lists. Ink to Text requirements Before we explain the new feature, we’ll detail the specific requirements of the new ‘Ink to Text’ Word feature. Microsoft buries these […]
Microsoft Office font spacing mystery and how to fix
A strange case of letter spacing with a Microsoft font showing differences between Word and PowerPoint. Here’s the anomaly with three possible fixes for it and similar situations. Office Watcher Paul B noticed this peculiar spacing between a fullstop/period and digit 1 with the Tenorite font. In PowerPoint, the two characters are very close together […]
Microsoft 365 instant account switching
Quickly switch accounts while using Microsoft Office 365, Office 2019 and Office 2021 for Windows and even have different logins in separate programs. Many people wear different ‘hats’ while using Office. There’s a Work ‘hat’ or ‘hats’ with more than one job. Plus your personal or home role. Sometimes even more hats/roles like a volunteer […]
Smaller images make smaller documents in Word and Office
Pictures in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook can make the file sizes at lot larger than you expect. Here’s how to make images smaller (in file size) for Office documents without changing the look of the document, slide etc. The images in a document are what take up a lot of space in most documents. […]
Coin 🪙 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Coin 🪙 symbol or emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. How Coin 🪙 looks in different fonts Only Segoe UI Emoji font has the coin symbol in standard Windows. Coin 🪙 codes These are the important code numbers or values […]
