Microsoft Word’s Transcribe Tool: Instantly Turn Recordings into Text
Microsoft Word’s Transcribe feature makes converting recordings into text faster and easier than ever. Whether you’re documenting meetings, lectures, or interviews, this built-in speech-to-text tool automatically transforms your audio into an editable Word document. Learn how to use Transcribe in Word for Windows or Word Online, its supported formats and languages, tips for editing your […]
Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet ❥ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet ❥ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. As the term ‘bullet’ suggests Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet ❥ symbol is intended for bullet lists. Looking for other heart symbols? Five+ heart ❤ symbols in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and […]
More interesting bullets to Word and PowerPoint lists
Create more interesting and engaging bullet lists in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, use symbols or emojis for a touch of creativity and visual appeal. Here are some different symbols that can be used in bullet lists: Define New Bullet Word has some default symbols that are seen in too many documents. That’s a shame when […]
Character Spacing options in Word
Deep in the bowels of Word’s setting is a way to increase or decrease the spacing between letters. Character Spacing | Spacing lets you stretch or compress text. It’s a handy trick for headings, it makes them look bigger without increasing the font size. Or compress text so more words fit into limited space. Character Spacing settings To […]
The real National Park font is now available for Office
There’s a proper digital font version of the typeface used on US National Park signs. It’ll work with Office for Windows or Mac. The original signs were hand-carved with a router bit. At https://nationalparktypeface.com/ there are four options available: Light, Regular, Heavy and Outline. They are available as a free download under a SIL License. […]
Art Deco font from National Park Posters in Word and Office
The famous Art Deco font used in US National Park posters is available free for Word, Excel or PowerPoint. National Parks Traveller has an interesting article on the history of US National Parks posters. Original posters now sell for four figure prices, not bad for things that were once thrown out as useless pieces of […]
Loudly Crying Face 😭 emoji in Word, PowerPoint and Office
Type Loudly Crying Face 😭 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. In mid-2011 Loudly Crying Face 😭 was the most popular emoji in the world. Alternative names are; Crying, Sobbing, Sad Tears, Bawling, uncontrolled laughter or even overwhelming joy. How Loudly Crying Face 😭 looks […]
Down arrow ↓ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Down arrow ↓ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Down arrow ↓ symbol is used for all sorts of things including a bullet symbol. How Down arrow ↓ looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of how Down arrow ↓ looks in common […]
Rolling on the Floor laughing 🤣 emoji in Word, Outlook, Office
Insert the Rolling on the Floor laughing 🤣 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Rolling on the Floor laughing 🤣 emoji is commonly used, sometimes using the acronym ‘ROFL’ or ‘Hysterical Laughter’ Not to be confused with Face with rolling eyes 🙄 emoji How Rolling […]
How to insert the Beta Lower Case β symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Beta – lower case β into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Beta – lower case β symbol is the 2nd letter of the Greek Alphabet. Within finance, it is used as a measure of investment portfolio risk. Within statistics, it may represent a regression […]
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 […]
