How to Pause Microsoft Office Updates After September’s Patch Bugs
Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday arrives today, and after September’s rough round of updates including an Excel copy-paste bug that took two weeks to fix and other troubles, be cautious. Here’s how to temporarily pause Office updates on Windows and Mac so you can let others test first, without leaving your system exposed long-term. The […]
Copilot in Word Now Cites Its Sources, Here’s How to Use It
Microsoft’s September 2026 update brings two Copilot upgrades to Word 365: citations that show where Copilot’s answers come from and the ability to rearrange images by typing a prompt. Neither feature has appeared on our test machines yet, but here’s what Microsoft promises and how to get the most out of both when they arrive. […]
GPT 6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in Copilot: What to Pick and When
Microsoft 365 Copilot now lets you choose two more AI models, OpenAI’s GPT 6.1 Sol and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat, Cowork, and Copilot Studio. Each model has different strengths, and picking the right one can save you time and give you better results. Here’s what’s changed, which model suits […]
Hidden Word Options That Make Better PDF Files
Word’s default PDF export creates a basic file, but hidden options let you make smaller PDFs, add navigation bookmarks, include accessibility features and even password-protect the result. Here’s where to find those options and how to use them. PDF’s made from Word can be smaller than usual for faster sending or to get under size […]
How to Insert Degree, Currency and Other Symbols in Microsoft Office
Need to type a degree sign, Euro symbol or other special characters in Word, Excel or Outlook? Here’s how to insert symbols in Microsoft Office — from one-off use to fast shortcuts for characters you need every day. Degree mark for temperature. Has no special shortcut but you can make one (see below). Currency symbols. […]
Word Save As PDF Bug Silently Saves Files to Wrong Folder, How to Fix It
If you use Word 365 to save documents as PDFs to SharePoint and perhaps other locations, your files may be vanishing. Microsoft has confirmed a bug in version 2609 that silently drops PDFs into a hidden cache folder on your PC with randomized filenames, and gives you no warning. Here’s how to check if you’re […]
Switch Microsoft Accounts in Word, Excel and PowerPoint Without Signing Out
Juggling a work login, a personal Microsoft account and maybe a volunteer role? You don’t need to sign out and back in to Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Microsoft 365, Office 2024, Office 2021 and earlier for Windows lets you switch Microsoft accounts in Office with two clicks from the account menu at the top right […]
Word Spell Check: 10 Hidden Options You’re Probably Missing
Clicking a red underlined word in Microsoft Word shows more than a few suggested spellings. Word’s spell check menus hide ten useful options, including Change All to fix every copy of a typo at once, Add to AutoCorrect so Word fixes that mistake for you in the future, and Ignore All, which only appears when […]
Merriam-Webster new words vs Microsoft Word
Merriam-Webster has added 1,400 new words and definitions to its dictionary, including looksmaxxing, crashout and Rickroll. We typed the headline internet slang into Microsoft Word to see which words get the red squiggly underline. Word already knows some surprisingly fresh slang but still flags a prank that’s been around since 2007. If you use these […]
Word 365 crashes when third-party apps fill templates, how to fix it
Word 365 is crashing when third-party document assembly, case management and practice management programs try to generate documents from templates. Microsoft has confirmed the bug in Version 2608 but offers no fix yet. Here’s how to check whether you’re affected and what to do about it. Microsoft says that after updating to Version 2608 (Build […]
Grok AI in Microsoft 365: What Copilot Users Need to Know Before Turning It On
Microsoft has added Grok AI from SpaceXAI as a model option in Copilot for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Before you turn it on, there are privacy trade-offs and restrictions you need to understand. Choosing Grok means your data leaves Microsoft’s servers, the feature is blocked in Europe and the UK, and your admin has to […]
September 2026 Patch Tuesday: 20 Critical Office Bugs to Fix Now
Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday landed on September 8, 2026 with a record 966 fixes, and Office took the worst of it: 124 patches across Word, Excel, Outlook and the shared code, 20 of them rated Critical. Excel alone has six Critical remote code execution holes, which means a single booby trapped workbook can run […]
Word Can Now Link to Any Paragraph, But Check This Setting First
Word for Windows and Mac can now make a link that opens a document at an exact paragraph, not just at page one. Select any text in a document saved to OneDrive or SharePoint, right click, and choose Copy Link to Location. It is a real time saver for long contracts, specs and policy documents. […]
Microsoft Kills Word’s Similarity Checker on October 3, 2026
Microsoft is deleting Word’s Similarity Checker, the plagiarism check built into the Editor pane, on October 3, 2026. That is three weeks away and there is no replacement. If you have a document with similarity results you still care about, open it and insert the citations now, because the flagged passages and their source links […]
Text Predictions Now Off by Default in Word and Outlook
Microsoft is switching Text Predictions off by default in Word 365 and Outlook 365. If you rely on the gray suggested text that appears ahead of your cursor, it may simply stop showing up. The feature is not gone, just no longer automatic, and you can switch it back on in about ten seconds. Here […]
Equal Earth Map in Word, Excel and PowerPoint: How to Add It Free
The UN has just picked a new favorite world map, and the Mercator projection most of us grew up with is out of favor. If your reports, slides or dashboards use a world map, the Equal Earth projection is now the one to reach for. Microsoft Office does not include it, but you can drop […]
