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.
I Love … variations in Word or PowerPoint
Once you have the basic setup for the I ♥ or I Love … sign, the fun begins. Making your own variations for a Word document or PowerPoint presentation. Start by making your own I ♥ or I Love … sign based on the original I Love NY logo. Font variations Simply changing the font […]
Make your own I ♥ Love…. Signs in Word
It’s pretty easy to make a similar I ♥ or I Love logo, in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. It’s even a little easier for Mac users. Check out Making the original I Love NY sign to see how the original logo is put together. We’ll show you the little subtleties and design tweaks needed in […]
How the famous I ♥ Love NY logo was put together
Here’s the design details of how the famous I ♥ NY / I Love NY logo was made. The font, colors, symbols and how they come together to make an iconic sign imitated all over the world. The logo was created by Milton Glasner in the back of a taxi but these days all you […]
Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes 😄 emoji in Office
Type the Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes 😄 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes 😄 emoji is used to express genuine joy, laughter, or excitement. It’s just one of the many ‘Smiling’ or ‘Grinning’ […]
Behind letters, characters and emoji is Unicode
There’s an interesting New York Times piece on the Unicode standard that’s used by Office, Windows, Mac and other computer systems. Unicode is the global standard for identifying letters, symbols and characters across many computer systems. It’s how very different devices can identify the letter A, Euro currency symbol or even a Recycling symbol in […]
Section Symbol § in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Section Symbol § can be typed into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Section Symbol § is used for referencing numbered sections of a document, such as US legal code e.g “ 50 U.S. Code § 1861 “ . § in Footnotes It can also appear as […]
Upside-down or Spanish Exclamation mark in Word
The inverted or Spanish exclamation mark ¡ is available in Microsoft Word, regardless of language setting. There’s even an in-built shortcut. ¡ is most commonly used in Spanish for the start of an exclaiming sentence. As far back as the 1660’s there have been attempts to introduce ¡ inverted exclamation to denote irony. Despite its […]
PowerPoint presentations in a window not full screen
PowerPoint presentations don’t have to be full-screen, that’s the default and normal way to show a deck, but a window option is also there. A windowed presentation lets you display the slides in other software like virtual cameras or desktop capture. Go to Slide Show | Setup Slide show and choose ‘Browsed by an individual […]
Inserting Symbols is harder in Office for Mac
One of the many small, but annoying, limitations in Office for Mac is the Insert Symbol feature. In Word for Windows it’s quite developed with a list of recently used characters: Or open up the main dialog to scroll through many more symbols or jump to exactly the one you want. But Word for Mac […]
How to view .msg files without Outlook
How to view a .msg file in either Windows or Mac. .MSG are Outlook for Windows message files which aren’t supported on Outlook for Mac, let alone Outlook mobile or in a browser. We’ve already explained about Outlook .msg files and why they are NOT recommended. In short .msg files are made by Outlook desktop […]
Outlook .MSG files, what are they and why to avoid them
Viewing an .MSG file in either Windows or Mac isn’t always easy or even possible. We’ll explain what a .msg file is and why to avoid .msg in favor of better ways to share Outlook information. What is a .msg file? .MSG files is the “Outlook Message Format” are made by Outlook desktop for Windows […]
Better ways to Shrink One Page in Microsoft Word
We already talked about the Microsoft Word ‘Shrink One Page‘ feature and its limitations. Here’s suggestions for how to move a few orphaned lines from the top of a page in more subtle and effective ways. Obviously, every document is different so the tricks you use depend on the situation. Pick and try from this […]
Shrink One Page or Shrink to Fit in Microsoft Word
The Shrink to Fit or Shrink One Page option hiding in Microsoft Word might solve a common problem. Making a document that’s using part of an extra page (an ‘orphan’), fit into a single page or one less page. Shrink One Page or Shrink to Fit was added to Word a long time ago, at […]
Use narrow margins in Word to save paper
Reduce the number of pages in a Microsoft Word document and save paper, one option is to make the page margins narrower. Do that with a single click and change back to normal margins with another click. Narrower margins can make a surprisingly large difference to the number of pages. For example, we ‘shrunk’ a […]
Table Border Painter make tables easier in Word
Tucked away on the far-right of Microsoft Word’s Table Design tab is the Border Painter, a useful little tool to let you copy existing cell borders to other parts of a table. Border Painter saves the trouble of manually changing the table or cell border settings. Instead, just copy an existing border and paste the […]
The trick to add background image to Word table
When it comes to inserting a background image into the Microsoft Word table, it’s possible with a little trickery. It’s not ideal but quite easy. We’ll show you how to insert a picture background into a Word table. You’ll need to be aware that it can likely go wrong when the document formatting changes, unfortunately […]
