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.
Quick Excel list sorting and filter buttons
Any Excel worksheet that has lists with headings on the top row can quickly get pull-down menus to filter or sort the data. For a regular Excel worksheet, go to the Data tab and click the Filter button. This adds extra pull-down menus to each of the headings. For an Excel Table, the filter buttons […]
Use Pantone Colors in Office documents
You can translate a Pantone PMS code or name into something Microsoft Office; Word, Excel or PowerPoint understands? Sometimes you’re given a specific color using the Pantone color scheme. Most commonly this happens for a corporate logo. The Ford car company specifies ‘PMS 294C’ for their blue logo. McDonald’s uses PMS 123C and PMS 485C […]
Typing some simple fractions automatically in Word and Outlook
As part of Word’s Autocorrect settings, some simple fractions will show as a symbol when you. For example, if you type in 1/4 and then space straight afterwards it’ll show as ¼. It’s done automatically from File | Options | Proofing | AutoCorrect Options | AutoFormat as you type | Fractions (1/2) with fraction character […]
Typing common fractions in Word and Outlook
Fractions like 1/2 1/4 3/4 can look better in Word and Outlook as ½ ¼ ¾ that can be done for other common fractions too ⅘ ⅚ ⅐ ⅛ among many. Either type directly with a shortcut or using AutoCorrect. We have a full table of the fractions available as symbols. As you may know, […]
Make your own fractions in Word and Outlook
There’s an easy way to make a good looking symbol for any fraction, no matter how unusual it might be. There are symbols and shortcuts for common fractions but beyond that you need a little Word trickery. But not very tricky because all you need is on the Home tab. Superscript then Subscript Use a […]
Thumbs Down👎emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Thumbs Down or Dislike 👎 can be typed into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Thumbs Down symbol 👎 or emoji is used to suggest disapproval or dislike. Partnered against Thumbs Up / Like 👍 symbol. How Thumbs Down Sign 👎 looks in different fonts. Here’s […]
Zero-day Windows security bug spreads to Europe and USA
The serious Windows and Office security bug is now used to target organizations in Europe and USA. Despite plenty of warnings, Microsoft still doesn’t have a fix, just ‘mitigations’. Last week Office-Watch.com told you about “Follina, or CVE-2022–30190” a relatively simple hack that exploits a security bug in Microsoft’s own Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (msdt). It’s […]
Calculate age and other interesting facts using Excel and DateDif()
All you need is a birth date or starting date and Excel can figure out the age, next birthday, days to next birthday or when you reach a milestone like 10,000 or 15,000 days. That’s just some clever tricks with DateDif(). How old is someone or something? To calculate the age, we will need to […]
Inside the Schengen Visa Calculation workbook
Here’s a quick look at some of the modest Excel tricks we used to make the Schengen Visa Calculation worksheet. Table Making the itinerary list an Excel Table lets us make use of some features. Formatting It’s a lot easier to format as a table with banded rows. We’ve turned off the Table | Filter […]
Microsoft Word is beaten (again) by a 14 year-old spelling champ
Our annual Microsoft Word vs the Spelling Bee Champions contest is on again for 2022. Word has done better than in the past but was still beaten by another extraordinary 14 year-old. 2022’s Spelling Bee Champ is Harini Logan, 14, from San Antonio TX who narrowly beat Vikram Raju a mere 12-year-old from Denver, CO. […]
Zero-day security hole in Word, Microsoft very slow to act
A large security risk has appeared in Microsoft Word, a zero-day security problem which can infect even fully updated Word. Microsoft has taken at least 14 months and still hasn’t fixed the security hole. We’ll explain the problem and what you can do. It’s a relatively simple hack which takes advantage of gaps in Word, […]
Five ways to turn text into Excel dates
Sometimes you need to convert a date from the Excel cell saved format to a particular format. There are at least five ways to do that. DateValue(), Date() or converting Unix dates to Excel. Simply typing dates into a cell also works but there are traps for the unwary. Excel’s trap when typing in dates […]
Text to Excel Date conversion by adding Zero with Paste Special
Another way to convert text to dates is by adding zero to the text. This is a trick which forces Excel to convert the text into an Excel value so it can then add the zero. Since adding zero doesn’t change the value, you end up with text converted to an Excel value. It’s a […]
Excel Conditional Formatting, beyond the presets
Excel has some nifty and simple options for color highlights the extremes in a list of values. It’s called Conditional Formatting and you can do all sorts of clever things with it. First let’s look at the simple presets that Microsoft has given us, some of the obvious choices they’ve left out and how to […]
Simple sharing your Outlook invitations
It’s easy to share appointment details with other people, whether they use Outlook or not. No need to type in appointments when you can send and receive the details right in your calendar. We’ll explain how it works for both sender and receiver (organizer and invitees) on various platforms, including Outlook.com and Gmail plus the […]
IF and Nested IF Statements in Excel
An IF statement might sound like a complicated thing that programmers do, but it’s actually fairly easy to do in Excel. An IF statement basically puts something into a cell depending on certain conditions – if A is true, put X in this cell. You can even use what’s called a nested IF statement if you have […]
