Office 2021 is the personal and small business ‘perpetual licence’, non-subscription version of Microsoft Office. For Windows and Mac.
Office LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel) is the volume licence ‘perpetual licence’, non-subscription version of Microsoft Office for organizations, companies and governments. Also for Windows and Mac.
The features in Office 2021 and Office LTSC are very similar, if not the same.
Letter or A4 in Word: Two Ways to Switch Without Wrecking Your Layout
Get a document formatted for the wrong paper size and Word gives you two very different ways out. One rescales the printout and leaves your document untouched. The other changes the document itself and can shift your margins, headers and images without warning. Which one you pick matters, so here is when to use each, […]
August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Office Bugs That Fire From the Preview Pane
Ten Critical bugs fixed in Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday can be triggered just by previewing a file. No opening it, no macro warning, no “Enable Content” click. Selecting a message in Outlook’s Reading Pane or clicking a file once in File Explorer is enough to run an attacker’s code on an unpatched machine. That […]
How to Install Only Publisher and Skip the Rest of Microsoft Office
Publisher 365 stops working on 13 October 2026. If you are moving to an older Microsoft Office to keep Publisher alive, you do not have to install the whole suite. Here is how to install only Publisher from Office 2019 or Office 2021, leaving Word, Excel, Outlook and the rest off your computer. It takes […]
Microsoft Publisher Ends October 2026: How to Keep It Working
Microsoft Publisher is ending in October 2026, and what happens to you depends entirely on how you bought it. If you use Publisher 365 from a Microsoft 365 plan, the app will simply stop opening. That is a kill switch, not a polite end of support notice. If you have Publisher 2019 or Publisher 2021 […]
Don’t be a Fauci – how to keep a private diary, private
If you keep a digital diary or any kind of personal notes, recent headlines are a reminder that where you save it, and whether it is password protected, really matters. An unprotected diary saved in the wrong place can be read, copied, or leaked without your knowledge. Here is how to keep your private notes […]
OneNote as a Digital Commonplace Book: A Simple Way to Save Ideas
If you’re copying quotes, links, and half formed ideas into random Word documents or sticky notes, OneNote can replace all of that with one searchable place. This habit is centuries old. Renaissance writers called it a commonplace book. OneNote just makes it faster to fill and far easier to search later. The commonplace book isn’t […]
Publisher 365 Kill Switch: What Microsoft’s New Email Gets Wrong
Microsoft just emailed Microsoft 365 subscribers with a warning that badly undersells the Publisher 365 problem. The real deadline is 1 October 2026, less than two months away, not “next year” as the email claims. After that date, Publisher 365 stops opening or editing your files completely, not just “no longer supported.” Here is what […]
Highlight the Selected Row and Column in Excel and Stop Data Errors
Large Excel worksheets punish you for a moment of inattention. Your eye drifts one row, you type a score or a price into the wrong cell, and nobody notices for weeks. Excel can fix that by highlighting the row and column of whatever cell you click on, so the right cell is always obvious. It […]
Word Style ‘Automatically Update’: Why You Should Turn It Off
Change the font on one paragraph in Microsoft Word and watch the rest of the document change with it. That is ‘Automatically update’, a checkbox hiding in every Word style’s Modify Style box. It is off for most styles, but when it is on, Word rewrites the style itself every time you reformat a paragraph, […]
Office for Mac Won’t Open? Fix “Unknown Error 0x0” and “License Not Found” in Two Minutes
If Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint or OneNote suddenly refuse to open on your Mac and flash Unknown Error 0x0 or License Not Found, you are not locked out and your subscription is fine. It was a licensing bug on Microsoft’s side, now fixed. The repair is free, needs no reinstall, and takes about two minutes: […]
Word: get a better list of styles in a document
Word makes it surprisingly hard to see a full list of styles in a document. There’s no tidy panel that lays out every style and shows how they connect to each other. The only option built into Word is a hidden Print setting that produces a long, flat report that’s a chore to read. The […]
How to Make a Better Word Index: Page Ranges, Hidden Tags and AutoMark
Making an index in Word by hand gets tedious fast, but Word hides three real time savers most people never touch. In this second part of our indexing guide we show you how to mark an index entry that spans a range of pages using bookmarks, why Word fills your document with hidden {XE} tags […]
How to Make an Index in Word: Mark Entries and Build It
An index is the alphabetical list of terms and page numbers at the back of a book, and Microsoft Word can build one for you. We show you how to make an index in Word, starting with the basics: preparing your document, marking index entries and generating a simple, professional looking index. It takes some […]
Microsoft Forms: Old and New Tools to Draft and Fix Your Surveys
Microsoft Forms Copilot has quietly turned one of the humblest corners of Microsoft 365 into a better survey and quiz builder. Copilot can now draft a whole form from a plain English prompt, suggest fixes to questions you already have, and even add basic branching, all inside one pane next to your form. Some of […]
Edit SVG colors in Word, Excel and PowerPoint the Easy Way
Microsoft Office lets you drop an SVG graphic into Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then recolor the whole thing and nothing more. Want the circle orange and the bar black? The fix is simpler than you would guess: open the SVG in Notepad or any plain text editor, change a few color values, delete or hide […]
Windows 10 Support Extended Again: Free Security Updates Until October 2027
Microsoft has quietly handed Windows 10 users another free year. Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) now run to 12 October 2027, not the October 2026 cutoff everyone had been planning around. If you are already enrolled, the extra year is automatic and costs nothing. If you are not, enrollment is still open and it […]
