Weary / Distraught face 😩 emoji in Word and Office
Type the Weary / Distraught face 😩 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Weary / Distraught face 😩 emoji is also called Wailing, Frustrated or Sadness. How Weary / Distraught face 😩 looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of how Weary / Distraught face […]
Fast Word shortcuts for increase/decrease font size
Microsoft Word seems to have two pairs of shortcuts that do the same thing – increase or decrease the font size. This is how they are different. The shortcuts are: Ctrl + Shift + <Â Â or Ctrl + Shift + >Â – which are also buttons on the Home tab. Ctrl + [ and Ctrl […]
Office 2007-Office 365 – new look – same shortcuts
Office 2007 and later to Office 365 not only has keyboard shortcuts but in many ways they are better than previous versions of Microsoft Office. For the most part the shortcuts used in Office XP and Office 2003 still work in Office 2007 through 365 also – despite the very different look of the screen. […]
Office shortcut of the week – 2004 compendium
We place all of the “Shortcut of the Week” tips from 2004 in the one convenient place. Tip 1 – Undo The Undo function has become especially important over the years as Microsoft puts more ‘intelligence’ into their products. Sometimes it ‘corrects’ your spelling or re-formats something you were quite happy with, thank you very […]
How Microsoft Word was beaten by a 14 year-old
Our annual Microsoft Word vs the Spelling Bee Champions contest has returned for 2021. Word has done better than in the past but was still beaten by an extraordinary 14 year-old. Here’s the list of words used in the final rounds, (rounds 10-18) of the Scripps Spelling Bee as they appear in Word 365. In […]
Fire 🔥 symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Type the Fire 🔥 symbol or emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Fire 🔥 emoji has many names like Hot, Lit, Flame and Snapstreak How Fire 🔥 looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of how Fire 🔥 looks in common Office fonts. Fire […]
Sending a complete Word document – fonts and all
How to embed the necessary fonts into a Word document so everything is included that the receiver needs to view and edit it. You’ve made a document, it looks great and you send it off to someone or a print shop. They call complaining that it looks weird and claiming that you don’t you know […]
Pride and Mental Health extras in Office 365
Microsoft has added more stock images to Office 365 apps to help people celebrate Mental Health month (May). Also some extra app themes and pictures for Pride Month (June). Mental Health images May was Mental Health Awareness Month so Microsoft added some appropriate Stock Images for documents and slides. They are still available for Microsoft […]
How to type the Ghana Cedi symbol
How to type Ghana Cedi currency character in Windows or Office, especially Word. After our article about inserting Numero and other symbols into Office – trust an Office Watch reader to find a character not available in a supplied Windows / Office font: ” The currency in Ghana is the Cedi. The symbol used is […]
Practical options for Footnotes to Word tables
Microsoft Word has footnotes and endnotes features but it’s surprisingly clumsy when it come to the common need for footnotes immediately after a table. Normally, Word puts Footnotes at the bottom of the page but for tables (and occasionally pictures or diagrams) you want them immediately after the table like this: Doing that is possible […]
Typing Numero and other symbols in Office
How to type the ‘Numero’ symbol and other special characters – there’s many ways to do it in Word and Office. It all started with a single, seemingly simple, question from a reader. As often happens, the question opens up a whole range of options in Office Entering the Numero sign “How can I enter the […]
Using Review mode in OneDrive, Sharepoint and Word
Review mode is a very useful sharing choice in OneDrive and Sharepoint for Microsoft Word documents only. It lets people look over and comment on a Word document without changing the text. Only Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Education customers can get Review Mode. Look for it at the bottom of the shared Link Settings. What […]
Make Chalkboard or Whiteboard looks in Word
How to get a ‘Chalkboard’ or ‘Whiteboard’ effect in Microsoft Word. Recently we talked about Text Boxes in Word and how to get various looks for sidebars and columns. How about copying the ‘chalkboard’ or ‘Whiteboard’ effect for a different style of text box not offered by Microsoft in their text box gallery. Here’s some […]
Get more from Office 365’s Recommended Documents
Office for Windows can have an extra on the Home pane – Recommended Documents which tries to suggest documents you’re involved with. Here’s what’s possible with this feature including how to hide it away and leave more screen space for the things you want to see. Source: Microsoft Recent Documents has been in Office for […]
Sort by hidden column in Word
How to sort a list using a hidden or unseen column in a Microsoft Word table. Sometimes you want to sort a list in a way that isn’t apparent to the reader. To continue our Apollo theme, here’s a list of the twelve men who walked on the moon with the order they stepped onto […]
How to hide a column in Word
You can hide a table column in Word, all it takes is a little trickery and ignoring Microsoft’s advice! Sometimes you want to hide a table column in a Word document but according to Microsoft you can’t do it. Here’s how to do it anyway. It’s true that there’s no explicit ‘hide column’ option like […]
