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.
Vertical tabs come to OneNote for Windows
OneNote for Windows is getting vertical tabs as an option. A vertical list of tabs is already available in other OneNote apps. Vertical tabs have been in OneNote for Mac, iPad and the web for some time. OneNote for Windows missing out, until now. Switching between the two is simple. Who gets it? For what […]
Selective morph transitions in PowerPoint
There’s a better, more selective way to choose which shapes, images or other objects to ‘Morph’ between slides in PowerPoint 365, 2021 and 2019. Morph in PowerPoint is a way to transition between two slides with a nice smooth effect like this. The Morph transition normally applies to either all the objects, words or characters […]
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 […]
Six ways to put the date and time into Excel
There are many ways to enter the latest date or time into Excel, depending on exactly what you need. A fixed date/time at the moment you type into the cell or a date/time which Excel updates automatically. This works on Excel for Windows or Excel for Mac. There are combinations to enter either date, time […]
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 […]
Explaining Microsoft’s “Conditional Formatting” Excel video
Microsoft has released a quick ‘TikTok style’ video which is strange and not that helpful at showing some good Excel and Office features. We’ll explain what the video is trying to show off (Excel Conditional Formatting) and some more Office tricks too! We found it in one of Microsoft 365’s latest tweets called ‘Impressing your […]
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 […]
