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
Word-Processing
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
Simple image overlays in Word
Adding some text, an arrow or graphic to an image should be an easy task in Word … and it Read More
Document Properties in Word and Office
Document Properties is one of those long-standing parts of Office that is worth another look. It can be quite useful Read More
And so it begins …
WinBeta is reporting that emails are going out to people who qualify for the next step in Office software testing. Read More
OneDrive goes to 10GB
Microsoft has increased the maximum size for a single file on OneDrive to 10GB. That’s a sensible change since Office 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
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
Alphabetical order in Word
Which version of alphabetical order does Microsoft Word use? I thought that alphabetical order was, well, alphabetical order. That’s what 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
How Word's grammar check can let you down
A funny example of how you can’t trust the spelling and grammar checks in Word. We laughed at this sign, Read More
What is Microsoft Delve?
What is Delve and what does it mean for Microsoft Office? At the recent Microsoft conference there was mention of Read More
Use the latest Unicode symbols in Office
How can you get the new Unicode symbols in Office documents? There’s plenty of new symbols included in the Unicode Read More
More characters for Unicode
Unicode adds more characters to an already large list. Unicode has added another 2,834 new characters in the Unicode 7.0 Read More
Clearer table formatting than Microsoft auto-format
Some great tips on table formatting. Joey Cherdarchuk has a nice posting on a very different table styling to the Read More
Touch features in Office 2013
Office 2013 has some clever tricks when you touch the screen. Tony G writes: ” … there are some subtle Read More
Microsoft Word and the Oxford comma
How Word can warn you about the ‘Oxford’ or serial comma’? The Oxford comma is one of those grammatical things Read More
Find and Replace links in Word documents
How to quickly change web links in Office documents. It’s possible to bulk change web links in Word documents using Read More
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