Auto updating your Excel Charts
How to make an Excel chart that changes as you add more cells or rows is really simple these days. Read More
Office 2010
Microsoft Word tests for the Oxford Comma
Word can warn you about the ‘Oxford’ or serial comma’ whether you prefer to use the extra comma or not. Read More
Footnotes and Endnotes in Word
Getting started with Word’s footnotes and endnotes. Footnotes is one of those Word features that’s been around for a long Read More
The Old Alt + X trick
Quickly insert symbols, characters and emoji in Microsoft Word without taking your fingers off the keyboard. Inserting Symbols into Word Read More
Difference between 'Pickup where you left off' and GoBack 'Shift + F5'.
Microsoft Word’s ‘Pickup where you left off’ or ‘Welcome back’ message is different from the Shift+F5 shortcut. All the recent Read More
Two ways for sorting by Number
Choosing the sort type is really important and Word doesn’t always guess correctly. Office-Watch.com reader Peter M. reminds us that Read More
Why is Gene Cernan ignored in Word?
The last man on the moon is missing from Microsoft Office. Let the conspiracy theories begin! The last man to Read More
Sort by hidden column in Word
How to sort a list using a hidden or unseen list in Word. Sometimes you want to sort a list Read More
How to hide a column in Word
You can hide a column in Word, all it takes is a little trickery. Sometimes you want to hide a Read More
Sorting in Word
In-depth and clever tricks with sorting in Word. Following our look at different alphabetical orders, here’s a look at the Read More
Adding the Ruble to Office
Microsoft adds the Ruble symbol to Windows 8.1 and we show you how to add it to earlier versions of Read More
Why PivotTables get confused and how to fix them
Why Excel PivotTables get messed up and how to stop it. Time and again we’ve heard from people who try Read More
PivotTables: selecting and changing data sources
How to add and remove data from a PivotTable. Thanks for the great feedback from our article on PivotTables. One Read More
Where is Microsoft on email encryption?
Microsoft needs to play ‘catch up’ with email encryption. Yahoo is going to join Google is supporting not just email Read More
How to Email direct to cloud storage and services
Some programs let you email documents directly – here’s now. Microsoft Office for iPad has an ‘Email as attachment’ as Read More
Word - Insert Symbol wish list
The Insert | Symbol feature in Office is overdue for an overhaul. Our venture into the new Unicode symbols and Read More
Character Map in Windows
A Windows feature that’s very useful for Microsoft Office users. Character Map has been in Windows for as long as Read More
Office is 25 years old
Microsoft celebrates 25 years of the software suite. Microsoft quietly celebrated the 25th anniversary of their Office suite on 1 Read More
Simple and useful PivotTables
A simple, practical and non-scary example of how Excel PivotTables can work for you. Excel’s PivotTables are a great feature Read More
Access: Two Handy Procedures
The two procedures will let you easily clear up redundant Word documents, and alphabetize lists of declarations. Access versions: 2007-2013 Read More