Typography 101 – font terms explained
Font vs typeface, ascender, desender, X-height, finial … there’s a nice one-page guide to all the Typography terminology. Become a typography nerd in under 10 minutes by Andrew Coyle Has a good visual summary of all the major words used talking about type – the broad categories of fonts (Serif, San-serif etc), how letters combine […]
Goldman Sachs font for a new look in Excel, Word and Office
The (in)famous Goldman Sachs bank has released their own font which anyone can use in their Word, Excel or Powerpoint documents. It’s called Goldman Sans and is available for anyone to download and use. The font is especially useful in Excel workbooks. The company describes the sans-serif typeface as “approachable without being whimsical”. Goldman Sans, […]
Speaking Head in Silhouette 🗣 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Speaking Head in Silhouette 🗣 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Speaking Head in Silhouette 🗣 emoji can be used as a different way to draw attention to a special point or note. Or as an alternative icon for a speaker […]
Siren 🚨 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Siren or Police Car Light 🚨 symbol / emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Police Car Light🚨 (aka Siren or Emergency Vehicle Light) symbol can be used any time you want to add warning or alert to a document, slide or sheet. […]
Starting out with 3D models in Microsoft Office
How to insert and use 3D models in Microsoft Office. 3D models let you rotate, pan and zoom all around an object to show it exactly the way you want. Microsoft Office’s 3D models feature has more uses than you might expect. From the Microsoft promotion, it looks like 3D models are only good for […]
Degree Fahrenheit ℉ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Degree Fahrenheit ℉ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Degree Fahrenheit ℉ symbol is used as the unit for the Fahrenheit temperature scale. It’s a single character that’s a combination of the degree symbol and capital F. There’s a matching Degree Celsius […]
Degree Celsius ℃ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Degree Celsius / Centigrade ℃ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Degree Celsius ℃ is a single character symbol is used to refer to a specific temperature on the Celsius or Centigrade scale. Centigrade was the original name for the temperature scale before 1948 […]
SketchUp 3D graphics in Office 365
Microsoft has added SketchUp 3D graphics (.skp files) to the models inserted into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. SketchUp is a 3D graphics program where you can create shareable designs such as architectural models and graphics used in industrial design, product design, and civil and mechanical engineering. SketchUp Free is available for everyone. Adding Sketchup’s […]
Use the Smithsonian for great photos and 3D models in PowerPoint and Word
The Smithsonian has millions of images and 3D models available online to add something great and different to Microsoft Office including PowerPoint slides and Word documents. The Smithsonian Institution has been a US cultural, scientific and historical resource for the last 170 years. No visit to Washington DC is complete without going to several of their […]
Microsoft fixes their Quick Access Toolbar changes
Microsoft has reversed course on their proposed changes to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) in Microsoft Office 365 apps. The current defaults remain for new installs with ‘below the ribbon’ available as an option. In other words, common sense has prevailed. Microsoft wanted to move the Quick Access Toolbar from its familiar location ‘top left’ […]
Illegal colors in Word, PowerPoint and Office
Amazingly, a simple color can be trademarked and using one in a Word, PowerPoint or Office document can be illegal. We’ll explain why and a list of some colors you might need to avoid. Companies can trademark a color that’s associated with their product or logo. If you’re designing a document or presentation, especially for […]
Myth Busting about Office document formats
Even after 15 years, there’s still misinformation about the ‘new’ Office document formats .docx .xlsx etc. We’ll explain these myths and how you can easily disprove them yourself. Most of these myths surround the use of ZIP compression to make the document files smaller. Folks have jumped to wrong conclusions after hearing about ZIP. Not […]
Vertical Bar | symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Vertical Bar | into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Vertical Bar | symbol (technically a glyph) has many uses in computing, physics, maths and typography. In some programming languages | has a special meaning, for example in PowerShell | is called […]
Set your own Text Box default settings in Office
You’re not stuck with the Microsoft Office automatic settings when inserting a new text box. Change the Text Box defaults to whatever you like for faster text box formatting in Office; Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. There are TWO ways to add a Text Box in Word and Outlook – each with their own ways […]
Zero Thirds (Baseball) ↉ emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Zero Thirds (Baseball) ↉ fraction or symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Zero Thirds ↉ symbol (officially called ‘Vulgar Fraction Zero Thirds’) is a rarely used Baseball scoring symbol. The best explanation we could find was a Japanese Wikipedia page, here’s […]
Discover all the Function Key goodies for PowerPoint
Here’s a complete list of the PowerPoint Function Key features from fast access to Help, jumping around the presentation, doc panes, spelling, grammar and guidelines. What you can do with the F-keys labelled F1 through F12 on your keyboard. Don’t like Function Keys? KeyTips are your way to faster Microsoft Office F1 – Help, hide ribbon […]
