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.
Full CONVERT() measurement list for Excel
A full and searchable list of the measurements and multiplier prefixes available for Excel’s CONVERT function. This is a table of the abbreviations used in the Excel CONVERT() function. The basic units inbuilt to the function are all listed plus some of the common measures available using the Multiplier prefixes. Below that are a list […]
Outlook for Windows – restoring windows
What happens to all the different windows open in Outlook for Windows when the software crashes? How can you restore the open windows when Outlook restarts? In case you didn’t know, it’s possible to have many windows open in Outlook. Many people don’t realize that because Outlook first starts with just one window and clicking […]
Saving Office Watch from Outlook.com
Microsoft’s mail service Outlook.com might move Office Watch or Office for Mere Morals to Junk Email. Here’s how to stop it doing that for any email, The same advice applies to other newsletters and emails that are wrongly marked as Spam / Junk Email. The famous UK newsletter, Popbitch, is treated the same way. Spam […]
Converting SVG into JPG, PNG or other raster image format
Converting SVG icons into JPG is essential for older Word and Office versions that don’t have native icon/SVG support. Here’s some options for conversion or sourcing alternatives. SVG’s are great with many advantages for Office 365 and Office 2021/2019 users. Not everyone has the latest Microsoft Office or shares documents with others who have earlier […]
Make your own ‘handwritten’ letters with Word
Microsoft Word has almost all you need to make ‘hand written’ notes and letters for a fraction of the cost of a special service. Dig into some of the lesser known Word font and line spacing settings to get that ‘written by hand’ effect. The New York Times has a report on Bond – a […]
Type Phi uppercase Φ or lower φ in Word and Office
Insert the Phi uppercase Φ, and Phi lowercase φ / φ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Phi (uppercase Φ / lowercase φ / φ) is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. The uppercase symbol has various uses, such as the cumulative distribution function of standard normal deviation in statistics. The lowercase symbol has […]
Up arrow ↑ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
How to insert the Upwards arrow ↑ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The upwards arrow ↑ symbol is used for various purposes. It can notate a mathematical symbol for ‘undefined’, for very large integers or in medical notation it can mean increased. Of course, there are plenty of uses in graphics and design elements especially […]
Banana 🍌 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Banana 🍌 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. There’s also a Banana icon in modern Office apps. How Banana 🍌 looks in different fonts. Only two Segoe fonts support the Banana emoji; Segoe UI emoji (color or black) and Segoe UI Symbol. […]
More adventures with Office VBA and AI
Get ChatGPT or Copilot to show working Office VBA code to select and open a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document. It’s an example of how to work with ChatGPT to get the code you need and its limitations. In episode 1 of this saga, Office Watch showed how to use ChatGPT to make sample Office […]
Pay the same for faster, more reliable Internet
You can save a lot on Internet service by shopping around. You might not need to change ISP’s, just threaten to move your business elsewhere. Do a little research then contact your current ISP and ask them to match or better the plan you can get from one of their rivals. Internet savvy is not […]
Why ISP email sucks and how to prepare for better email
The Washington Post confirms that you can save a lot on Internet service by shopping around. But the article doesn’t mention what keeps people with the same ISP and paying way too much for Internet access – using email supplied by the ISP. Moving your email address away from your Internet provider is possible, in […]
Excel – how to make and use a checkbox
To make data entry simpler in Excel, form controls such as checkboxes can be added. A checkbox can be used to select or deselect an option. Checkboxes are useful for forms that have multiple options. The trick is using Excel’s Developer tab which holds the checkbox control. See How to get the Developer Tab in Office apps Insert a Checkbox in […]
Sigma upper Σ or lower σ case symbols in Word and Office
How to insert the Sigma upper case Σ and Sigma lower case σ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Sigma (uppercase Σ / lowercase σ) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In mathematics, the uppercase sigma symbol is used as an operator for summation, […]
Make a Word text box with rounded corners
A Microsoft Word text box can have rounded corners instead of the default square corners. It’s remarkably easy once you know the simple trick. Word Text Boxes always start with square corners, no matter which default you choose from the gallery. But once it’s inserted, a Word text box can be transformed many different shapes […]
Double Dagger ‡ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert the Double Dagger ‡ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Double Dagger ‡ symbol is used to mark a third footnote after the asterisk and dagger in a Word document. How Double Dagger ‡ looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of how Double Dagger […]
Choices for formatting fields in Word Mail Merge
How to change the look of Word mail merge data like dates and dollar amounts to exactly what you want to see in the documents. Nancy M asks: “I try to merge data (such as amount, PO#, to whom, as well as the date) from an Excel database. In the Excel database the amount cells […]
