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.
Hidden Word Options That Make Better PDF Files
Word’s default PDF export creates a basic file, but hidden options let you make smaller PDFs, add navigation bookmarks, include accessibility features and even password-protect the result. Here’s where to find those options and how to use them. PDF’s made from Word can be smaller than usual for faster sending or to get under size […]
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 on October 1st. That is a kill switch, not a polite end of support notice. If you have Publisher 2019 […]
How to Insert Degree, Currency and Other Symbols in Microsoft Office
Need to type a degree sign, Euro symbol or other special characters in Word, Excel or Outlook? Here’s how to insert symbols in Microsoft Office — from one-off use to fast shortcuts for characters you need every day. Degree mark for temperature. Has no special shortcut but you can make one (see below). Currency symbols. […]
Convert Text to Dates in Excel with the Paste Special Add Zero Trick
Dates imported or pasted into Excel often arrive as text — they look like dates but Excel can’t use them in formulas or sorting. One quick fix is the Paste Special Add Zero trick. It forces Excel to convert text into a real date value by adding zero, which changes the data type without changing […]
Two Microsoft 365 Licenses on One PC: Use Work and Personal Plans Together
Paying for Microsoft 365 at home while your employer gives you another plan at work? You don’t need a second copy of Office, or a second computer, to use both. Microsoft 365 for Windows can hold two or more Microsoft 365 licenses in the same installation and switches to the matching plan when you change […]
Switch Microsoft Accounts in Word, Excel and PowerPoint Without Signing Out
Juggling a work login, a personal Microsoft account and maybe a volunteer role? You don’t need to sign out and back in to Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Microsoft 365, Office 2024, Office 2021 and earlier for Windows lets you switch Microsoft accounts in Office with two clicks from the account menu at the top right […]
Excel Copy Paste Bug: Is Your Office Version Fixed Yet?
Microsoft has partly fixed their Excel copy paste bug in some versions of Office but left others broken or with an incomplete fix. Microsoft’s documentation is more than a little confusing but it seems most versions of Excel have been fixed. Microsoft 365 was never affected. Confused? Here is the full list so you can […]
Microsoft 365 “Kill Switch” Publisher Stops After October 2026
Microsoft is set to permanently disable Publisher 365 for Microsoft 365 subscribers on October 1, 2026, not just end support, with a hard “kill switch” that will block opening or editing .pub files after that date. This aggressive move means the desktop publishing tool will stop functioning entirely for subscription users, a major shift from […]
October 2026 Office Changes: Publisher Dies, Office 2021 Support Ends
Publisher 365 stops working on October 1, 2026, and that is just the first of eight October 2026 Office changes. Within days, Exchange Web Services starts shutting down in Exchange Online, Word’s Similarity Checker is deleted on October 3 and Teams live chat closes on October 5. Then on October 13, Office 2021 loses all […]
Excel Linked Picture: The Hidden Trick Behind Pro Dashboards
Excel’s Linked Picture turns any block of cells into a live picture you can drop anywhere in your workbook. Change a number in the source cells and the picture redraws instantly, colors, conditional formatting and all. It’s the hidden trick behind most polished Excel dashboards, and it’s already in your copy of Excel 365, Excel […]
Word Spell Check: 10 Hidden Options You’re Probably Missing
Clicking a red underlined word in Microsoft Word shows more than a few suggested spellings. Word’s spell check menus hide ten useful options, including Change All to fix every copy of a typo at once, Add to AutoCorrect so Word fixes that mistake for you in the future, and Ignore All, which only appears when […]
Merriam-Webster new words vs Microsoft Word
Merriam-Webster has added 1,400 new words and definitions to its dictionary, including looksmaxxing, crashout and Rickroll. We typed the headline internet slang into Microsoft Word to see which words get the red squiggly underline. Word already knows some surprisingly fresh slang but still flags a prank that’s been around since 2007. If you use these […]
Excel Copy and Paste Broken by Microsoft’s Own Security Update — How to Fix It
Microsoft’s September 2026 security update for Excel has broken copy and paste for users across Excel 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024. Update KB5002914, released on September 8, silently kills paste operations with no error message and no warning, creating a serious data integrity risk. Here is how to check whether you are affected, how to […]
Microsoft Office Updates: A No-Win Scenario and How to Stay Safe
Updating Microsoft Office is a no-win scenario. Install updates automatically and you risk buggy patches that break features or crash your computer. Delay updates and you leave yourself exposed to zero-day security attacks. It’s a dilemma Star Trek fans will recognize as the Kobayashi Maru, the famous test where every choice leads to trouble. Here’s […]
September 2026 Patch Tuesday: 20 Critical Office Bugs to Fix Now
Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday landed on September 8, 2026 with a record 966 fixes, and Office took the worst of it: 124 patches across Word, Excel, Outlook and the shared code, 20 of them rated Critical. Excel alone has six Critical remote code execution holes, which means a single booby trapped workbook can run […]
Equal Earth Map in Word, Excel and PowerPoint: How to Add It Free
The UN has just picked a new favorite world map, and the Mercator projection most of us grew up with is out of favor. If your reports, slides or dashboards use a world map, the Equal Earth projection is now the one to reach for. Microsoft Office does not include it, but you can drop […]
