Fun Eyes 👀 symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the fun Eyes 👀 symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Eyes 👀 symbol / emoji is a bit of fun for documents and PowerPoint slides. How Eyes 👀 looks in different fonts. Eyes is available in symbols fonts like Segoe UI Emoji and Segoe […]
Make Cloud Fonts available to all programs, not just Office
Microsoft 365 / Office 2021 Cloud Fonts are only available in Office programs … that’s the official line unless you know the trick to make the fonts available in other Windows or Mac apps Cloud Fonts can be selected and installed for Word 365/2021, Excel 365/2021, PowerPoint 365/2021, Outlook 365/2021 and Publisher 365/2021. You might […]
Ballot Box with Ballot 🗳 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Ballot Box with Ballot 🗳 symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Ballot Box with Ballot 🗳 symbol can be used for any situation around voting or choice. For example to decorate this PowerPoint slide. How Ballot Box with Ballot 🗳 looks in […]
Aptos & Microsoft fonts, what can you legally do with them?
What are the legal limits on fonts supplied by Microsoft in Windows or Microsoft Office? Is there anything special for the Microsoft 365 only Aptos fonts? A few readers have asked us about the font license rules that apply to fonts provided by Microsoft. Can the fonts be embedded in documents or PDF’s for portability? […]
Statue of Liberty 🗽 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Statue of Liberty 🗽 symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. “Lady Liberty” has symbol/emoji plus stock images, SVG icons or 3D models. How Statue of Liberty 🗽 looks in different fonts Two standard Windows fonts have the Statue of Liberty symbol, Segoe UI […]
Finding more SVG or Icons for your Office documents
There are a lot more Office Icon or SVG graphics available than the ones in Microsoft 365, Office 2021 or 2019. Jazz up your documents, emails or presentations with a wider range of graphics than the (overused) ones that come with modern Word, Outlook or PowerPoint. Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and 2019 have Icons which […]
Font embedding problems in Office
Word and PowerPoint have options to embed a font into the document, so why doesn’t it work? In theory you can select the ‘Embed fonts’ option for a document / presentation and all the necessary fonts will be included in the document. That means the fonts will appear, as the doc/slide maker intended, when opened […]
Font Embedding in Microsoft Office
Inside the Microsoft Office (Word and PowerPoint) embedding fonts feature within documents. Font embedding adds the font into the document/presentation file itself so that anyone reading will see the same text as the creator. Normally fonts are installed on the computer and used by whatever programs need them. If the font you want to use […]
Degree symbol ° in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Type or enter the ° Degree symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Windows / Mac programs generally. Degree ° is a common symbol and should be available in most fonts. If not, try another font or one of the fonts with a very wide range of characters like Arial Unicode MS or Lucida Sans […]
World Map 🗺 symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert a World Map 🗺 symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Of course, there are many Earth map images or drawings available on the Internet. There’s also some Microsoft Office Icons that we’ll explain below. We’re mostly talking about the World Map 🗺 symbol […]
Aptos fonts and making a PDF from Office
The new Aptos fonts in Microsoft 365 are installed and licensed in a different way from most fonts. How does that affect making a PDF either saving or printing. Can it be done at all? There are two broad ways to make a PDF file from an Office document. Save As PDF or Print to […]
Huge news for Office Mac users – font embedding!
In 2018 Office for Mac took a huge step towards true document compatibility. Font embedding was finally added to Word for Mac (Word 2021, Word 2019 and Word 365 for Mac) and PowerPoint for Mac. Font embedding adds the font details into the document itself. When another computer opens that document, it can use the […]
All the Office theme changes in Microsoft 365
Microsoft is changing more than just the font in Microsoft 365, there are also default color scheme and even line changes coming too. Here’s all the proposed changes and how to reverse them. New Default Fonts We’ve already talked about the new default fonts, Aptos and Aptos Display. New default font, Aptos, in Microsoft 365 […]
Mt Fuji 🗻 symbols in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Mount Fuji 🗻 or snow-capped mountain into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Mount Fuji (富士山 or Fujisan) is a Japanese Holy Site and World Heritage Listed. The symbol or emoji 🗻can be used for the famous mountain or any time you want […]
Which Microsoft Office feature badly needs a fix?
For all the changes Microsoft has made to Search (aka Tell Me), they continue to ignore one basic that would make Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook a lot easier to work with. Here’s some examples of how Microsoft Office search badly needs fixing. Search (formerly called “Tell Me”) usually appears in the title bar as […]
Changes to Sharing options in Microsoft Office
The Sharing options in Office are changing, yet again with a new ‘sharing experience’ in all Microsoft Office 365 apps for desktop, web and mobile. We’ll explain the changes, including a few options that Microsoft hasn’t mentioned. All the usual Microsoft buzzwords have been recycled to describe these changes; “streamlined”, “simplified”, “free of distraction”, “experience” […]