Essential keyboard shortcuts for the Office Selection Pane
Use these essential keyboard shortcuts to make best use of the Selection pane in Microsoft Office. Alt + F10 Open Selection Pane F6 Move the keyboard focus through the major regions until reaches the Selection Pane Tab Navigate by keyboard through the buttons in the pane and then into the list Up arrow, down arrow […]
See more with Selection Pane in Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Selection Pane is essential in Word, Powerpoint and Excel to hide or display the objects or to change the order, rename objects, group / ungroup, and delete objects. If you’re using images, graphics, Text Boxes, charts, SmartArt or other objects, the Selection Pane is a must. So, let’s start with some basic details of how […]
2001 movie design: using in Office, Word or PowerPoint
Make your own Word or PowerPoint designs inspired by the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey‘. See 2001 A Space Odyssey – in Word and PowerPoint and 2001: A Space Odyssey and font kerning for details on the fonts, colors and styles used in Kubrick’s famous movie. PowerPoint slides Moving from film stills to PowerPoint slides […]
Eiffel Tower 🗼 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Tower 🗼 (Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower) emoji, symbol or stock photo into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The emoji is commonly called ‘Eiffel Tower’ in the west but it was originally intended to show the Tokyo Tower. That’s why some emoji are colored […]
Add comments/help to your Office VBA code
ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can enhance your Office VBA code with comments and help. It or Copilot can analyze your code and generate explanations, tips, and examples to make it easier to read and debug One of the modern AI tricks is to help write and understand programming code. We’ve already looked at […]
Trademark ™ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Trademark ™ TM symbol as text and icon into Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Trademark ™ TM symbol is, strictly speaking, called the Unregistered Trademark symbol. Its counterpart is the Registered Trademark ® Trademark in Word and Outlook The Trademark ™ sign has an […]
Registered Trade Mark ® symbol in Word and Office
How to insert the Registered Trade Mark ® symbol as text or icon into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Registered Trade Mark ® not to be confused with the Unregistered Trade Mark ™ symbol. Registered Trade Mark ® in Word and Outlook The Registered Trade Mark […]
Care of ℅ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
The Care of ℅ symbol can be typed into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Care of ℅ symbol is one of those useful symbols you’ll never see on a keyboard and have to go hunting for. ℅ is used on envelopes and addresses, it refers to […]
Microsoft Office photo editing with Apollo 8’s Earthrise
As a quick example of what’s possible, here’s a quick look at some photo editing options in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook emails. Since it’s Christmas, we’ll use one of the famous Apollo 8 Earthrise images. We’ve already talked about how Apollo 8’s Earthrise, as we know it, is a cropped, rotated and […]
Fast umlaut ä ë ï ö ü in Microsoft Word and Office
Once you know the ‘secret’ shortcuts, it’s easy to type the umlaut vowels ä ë ï ö ü Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü in Word and Outlook but, alas, it’s not the same in Excel or PowerPoint. There are alternatives in Windows and Mac if you’re not using Word. There’s also a stand-alone ¨ umlaut […]
Satellite Antenna 📡 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Satellite Antenna 📡 symbol/emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Satellite Antenna or Dish 📡 symbol can be used for modern television, radio, GPS or wireless broadcasting generally. Can be used with the Satellite 🛰 emoji or icon. How Satellite Antenna 📡 looks […]
How to quickly switch between Word and Office windows
Often you need to switch between windows of the same program, so there should be a quick keyboard shortcut to do that. Here are your options in Windows or Mac. Whether you’re moving between Word documents, Excel workbooks or PowerPoint decks or Outlook emails, the need is the same. You want to quickly move between […]
How to play any video, audio or music file
Someone send you an audio or video file but it won’t play? There’s free software that can play any video, audio or music file, pretty much. VLC is a free, reliable and widely used audio and video player https://www.videolan.org/ it’s available for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and Linux. You name the format, VLC will […]
Satellite 🛰 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Satellite 🛰 emoji or icon into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. How Satellite 🛰 looks in different fonts. In Windows fonts only Segoe UI Emoji and Segoe UI Symbol have the Satellite emoji. As usual the Apple version (Apple Color Emoji font) looks […]
Office 2019 & 2016 lose an important part of their support
Microsoft has stopped supporting connections from Office 2019 and Office 2016 to their Microsoft 365 online services. It’s another ‘passive aggressive’ move to get customers off older versions of Office and onto Microsoft 365. Both Office 2019 and Office 2016 will continue to be supported with bug and security fixes until late 2025 however Microsoft […]
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 […]
