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 […]
The best Windows color picker
Selecting the exact color from a sample on the screen is best done with one of the PowerToys for Windows 11 and Windows 10 – Color Picker. Unlike the color selector in Office, the PowerToy Color Picker can choose from any visible part of the screen with a keyboard shortcut. Color Picker is just one […]
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 […]
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, […]
14 perfect pumpkin colors and more in Microsoft Office
Our exclusive Pumpkin Color Charts have the perfect ‘pumpkin’ colors you can use in Halloween documents, slides and graphics with their Microsoft Office compatible color codes including the five Pantone colors called ‘Pumpkin’. There are many Halloween ‘pumpkin’ colors to choose from depending on the variety and ripeness of virtual vegetable you want. See more […]
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 […]
All about Safe mode in Microsoft Office
Safe Mode is a special way for Office apps to run when things aren’t working properly. Here’s how to use Safe Mode, if Office doesn’t offer it automatically, and what Safe Mode does differently. Safe Mode is useful in situations where you cannot open files in normal mode because the app is crashing, or you […]
