Copilot in Office - grumbles and 'modest proposals'
Copilot could become a ‘toxic brand‘ because of pushy way Microsoft is adding it to Microsoft Office. We have some Read More
Stop Accessibility icons in Word margins
Maybe you’ve seen the little blue men appearing in the margins of your Word documents? They are Accessibility Recommendations and, Read More
Copilot Search now on the Word title bar
Copilot is now appearing on the Microsoft Word title bar as part of the combined search and help, now called Read More
Paste Text Only gets a Word shortcut and confusion
Paste Text only in Word for Windows and Mac has a keyboard shortcut but to do that Microsoft changed long-standing Read More
Office help on the right-click menu 'Search the menus'
There’s a little undocumented surprise on the right-click menu. Tucked away at the top is ‘Search the menus’ help. Sadly Read More
Upload a phone image to Copilot chat
Microsoft has introduced a new feature allowing users to upload images directly from their mobile devices to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Read More
Does Microsoft Word understand new English words?
The Oxford English Dictionary has a list of new English words for 2025. We’ve checked to see if the Microsoft Read More
OneDrive messages pushed into Microsoft 365 apps.
Microsoft is adding yet another push for customers to save all their documents to OneDrive. This time inside Word, Excel Read More
Convert Publisher to Word, we try Microsoft’s method
Microsoft recommends a strange method for converting Publisher files into Word documents. We tested this ‘approved’ trick to see if Read More
Why Word prefers corporate speak and how to change it
The reason Microsoft Word prefers ‘corporate speak’, phrases and language but there is more than one way to change Word’s Read More
Would you like some Ramen with your font?
Check out this headline ‘ramen’ font that looks great and has a clever name – Times New Ramen. Seine Kongruangkit Read More
Group and Ungroup objects in Word, PowerPoint and Office
Shapes, images, and other items can be grouped together and often should be in Word, PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office Read More
How to use Word’s Master Documents safely
Don’t be scared of Master Documents – just very, very careful. Master Documents is useful and sometimes essential but it’s Read More
Image privacy breach still in Microsoft Office
Back in 2015 we were amazed and dismayed to discover a privacy gap in Microsoft Office. Seven years later Microsoft Read More
“Free” Office for Windows is being trialed
Microsoft is testing a free version of Office for Windows with limited features, an important requirement and ads to ‘pay’ Read More
Pinned documents are now Favorites in Office – why?
Microsoft 365 apps are changing the ‘Pinned’ document list to ‘Favorites’ but why is Microsoft bothering at all? For many Read More
