Understand Office VBA code with ChatGPT
If you have Office VBA you’re trying to understand, ChatGPT can help. ChatGPT can take some VBA code and explain it in plain human language. This is very useful for digging into poorly documented or undocumented code. Also for beginners trying to get a handle on how Office VBA works. Office Watch has already explained […]
Don’t trust Total Editing Time in Word
What Microsoft Word calls “Total Editing Time” isn’t what you might think and it really doesn’t mean anything at all. We’ll explain how Word calculates “Editing Time” and why it’s not to be trusted. What seems like a simple thing “Total Editing Time” has hidden complexities. That should not surprise regular Microsoft Office users who […]
Print selected pages or sections of a Word document in any order
Microsoft Word has quite clever options for printing selected pages or document sections in any order you want. Office Watch has already talked about printing a selection from a document. Print pages Word has options to print page combinations other than the default ‘Print All Pages’. Print Current Page Use the Print pane preview to […]
Five+ heart ❤ symbols in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Heart ❤ as a symbol, emoji, icon or shape into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Of course, the heart symbol has come to mean love or affection. Less romantically it’s a “plane curve” in geometry called a cardioid. It’s officially called Red Heart […]
Create Barcodes in Microsoft Word
Once you start delving into Microsoft Word, you find it can do all sorts of things that you wouldn’t expect. One of these is that it can be used to create barcodes, and it’s surprisingly easy to do. Once you’ve made your barcodes, they can be scanned with any barcode scanner or an app on […]
Email a file to OneDrive, DropBox or other cloud storage
Here’s some different ways to add files to your OneDrive, DropBox or other cloud store by emailing them as attachments. Saving direct from emails is easier and faster than uploading. If you’ve received an Office document, PDF or other file as an email attachment, it’s simple to just forward the email to OneDrive. If you’re […]
Type Eta lower case η in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Eta – lower case η into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Eta – lower case η symbol is the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet. The symbol is used within various contexts. In Economics, it represents elasticity. To Oceanographers it’s the measurement of […]
Get started with Word’s Draw features watching this video
Microsoft has a good explainer about the ‘digital ink’ features in Word 365 – Drawing Tools, Highlighter, Action Pen, Ink to Shape and Ink to Math. Most Microsoft videos are self-congratulatory, heavy on graphics and buzzwords but light on useful information. This one is freshingly different. It’s a straight-forward tour of the Draw tab with […]
Australian flag and more into Word, Excel or PowerPoint docs
Find and add the Australian National flag, Aboriginal flag and other Aussie ensigns (Boxing Kangaroo or Eureka flags) into Office documents, Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then use some Office picture tools to enhance the image. The same help can be used for any other national flag, just look for a different source. Get the Australian […]
Prescription Take Rx ℞ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Prescription Take Rx ℞ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Prescription Take Rx ℞ symbol is for a medical prescription. It is commonly seen on doctor’s prescription pads and in pharmacies. How Prescription Take Rx ℞ looks Here’s some examples of how Prescription […]
Make a ‘Stop’ 🚫 circle / diagonal symbol in Word, Excel & PowerPoint
Here’s the best and most flexible way to make the common ‘Stop’ circle 🚫 with diagonal line symbol in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft Office calls it the Not Allowed symbol. It has many, many names; interdictory circle, prohibited symbol, don’t do it symbol, universal no, banned, no entry, nay, no symbol, ‘do not’ sign or circle-backslash symbol. And that’s […]
Yet more ways to insert the Stop circle and line symbol in Office
Aside from the stop/prohibited shape in Office, there are other options for entering the common sign symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Use Icons in Microsoft 365, Office 2021, Office 2019 or Emoji symbols from the Unicode list. See Make a ‘Stop’ circle / diagonal symbol in Word, Excel & PowerPoint for a better […]
All about Column Breaks in Microsoft Word
Manual column breaks let you control exactly where Microsoft Word wraps text to the next column, instead of letting Word do it automatically. Here’s how to insert a column break, find one and delete it. To put your text into columns, highlight the text and go to Layout | Page Setup | Columns and choose […]
Secret shortcut for fast sorting or reordering in Word
Don’t bother using cut / paste to manually sorting or adjusting a list. There’s a faster shortcut for moving a line or paragraph around a Word document which isn’t in the usual lists of Word keyboard shortcuts. Word has a simple shortcut to that move the current line or paragraph up or down without selecting […]
More than five Christian ✝ Cross choices in Word, Excel, PPT and emails
There are at least five different options inserting a Christian or Latin ✝ Cross symbol into Office documents like Word, Excel, PowerPoint or emails. There are some cross symbols available in the Windows / Office symbol fonts and there’s plenty of nice cross options available online in the flexible SVG format. Office itself is surprisingly secular […]
Two ⸘ Interrobang symbols ‽ in Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
What is an interrobang ‽ and how to use it in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Also the Inverted Interrobang ⸘ that can be used with ‽ Interrobang or interabang ‽ is a non-standard punctuation mark – a combination of a question mark and exclamation mark in a single character (glyph). It can be […]
