Adding a picture to PowerPoint text background look great and is easier than you might think. Even better, are many hidden options to adjust the image and position it exactly as you want. Curious about how to create text effects like in the image below? Look no further—if you have
Ever wondered what font is used in a famous logo? There’s a fascinating collection of familiar brands with their names replaced with the font name. Emanuele Abrate has made Logofonts, for example the Starbucks logo with the font name, FreightSans Black. Nike uses Futura. WhatsApp with HelveticaNeue. YouTube uses AlternativeGothic
Quickly insert symbols, characters and emoji in Microsoft Word and Outlook without taking your fingers off the keyboard using a feature that’s been in Word (for Windows) for many years. Inserting Symbols into Word documents is a pain, go up to the ribbon Insert | Symbols | Symbol which takes
Why you can’t insert national flag emoji (among many) in Microsoft Office and Windows but can in Office for Mac, macOS, iPhone and iPad. We’ll explain the workaround necessary to insert national flags in Windows and Office for Windows. Apple devices (macOS, iPhone and iPad) show flag emoji properly like
How to insert the Mobile Phone 📱 or smartphone emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. How Mobile Phone 📱 symbol looks in different fonts. The mobile phone emoji is available in these standard Windows fonts: Segoe UI Emoji and
Here’s a clever and innovative font that lets you make unique monsters or pipe connections for Word, PowerPoint or anywhere else you need something a little different. Office Watch has a complete list of the Teranoptia font symbols for easy reference. Teranoptia is a font that uses letters and some
Here’s one way to make a list of all the fonts used in a Word document. Sometimes there are stray fonts used in a Word document, perhaps from earlier versions or unused formatting trials. Even a single letter or blank paragraph set to a font can make a difference. Removing
Face with rolling eyes 🙄 symbol is one of the more popularly used emoji, also known as ‘Eye Roll’ or ‘Yeah whatever’. Here’s how to type it in Microsoft Word, Outlook and Office. Not to be confused with the ‘Rolling on the floor laughing’ 🤣 or ROFL emoji or other
Put on the Glasses or Eyeglasses 👓 symbol (emoji) or icon into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Glasses 👓 symbol is used for all manner of things like a graphic to illustrate “Look here” or “See this” or, of course,
A recent poll commissioned by Microsoft confirms the widely held suspicion that people prefer the Calibri font over the new Aptos fonts pushed into Microsoft Office. This comes from a Twitter/X poll run by the Microsoft run @Microsoft365 account. The previous Office default font, Calibri, handily won the poll with
Insert the Ear 👂symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Use the Ear 👂 symbol for many situations including an icon for ‘Listen” or ‘hear’. Or to complement the Eye 👁 emoji How Ear 👂 looks in different fonts. Two Windows
How to insert the Eye 👁 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Eye 👁 symbol is used for decoration “Look Here” or “See this”. Even as a fancy bullet point in Word or PowerPoint. How Eye 👁 looks in
A strange case of letter spacing with a Microsoft font showing differences between Word and PowerPoint. Here’s the anomaly with three possible fixes for it and similar situations. Office Watcher Paul B noticed this peculiar spacing between a fullstop/period and digit 1 with the Tenorite font. In PowerPoint, the two
How to insert the Coin 🪙 symbol or emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. How Coin 🪙 looks in different fonts Only Segoe UI Emoji font has the coin symbol in standard Windows. Coin 🪙 codes These are the
There’s more than one Credit Card 💳 image available in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. How Credit Card 💳 looks in different fonts. Only two standard Windows fonts have the credit card symbol; Segoe UI Emoji and Segoe UI Symbol.
Here’s how to switch away from the new Aptos fonts in Microsoft PowerPoint and back to the old Calibri fonts or something else. Microsoft has forced a change to Aptos as the new default font in PowerPoint but that change doesn’t suit everyone. In particular, Aptos doesn’t make much (or any) visible difference for
Make an unpleasant point with the world’s ugliest color. A ‘drab dark green’ can be used in any Word document, Excel sheet or PowerPoint slide. And we’ll explain the recommended complement color and font. It’s not our opinion, but the market researched result of an effort to find the most
Ever wondered what fonts say to each other. How newcomer Aptos treats Calibri? How Dingbats dance and what Comic Sans wears? Elle Cordova answers these and other important typographical questions in two Instagram videos. Fonts Hanging Out part 1 https://www.instagram.com/p/C2cZBIAr24m/ Fonts Hanging Out part 2 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2sxcszyLnN/ Enjoy … Excel –
There are two options for changing the default fonts in Excel, either for new blank workbooks or existing spreadsheets. Maybe you prefer another font. Perhaps the old default font until mid-2023, Calibri. Or a spreadsheet specialist font like Goldman Sans. Maybe your organization or client has a preferred font? Go
Here’s the simplest way to switch from Aptos fonts in Excel 365/2021/2019 to either the previous font (Calibri) or some other font. In Excel, Aptos Narrow is the new (mid-2023) default font style with a font size of 11, Black. What if you don’t like the new default font? Aptos
Keyboard shortcuts for special characters that work outside Office and without special setup on any Windows computer. It’s possible to enter any character into a Windows program using the Alt key plus the number pad (usually on the right side of a larger keyboard). This is a handy shortcut to
There are at least two ways to switch away from the new Aptos fonts in Microsoft Word and back to the old Calibri fonts or something else. Microsoft has forced a change to Aptos as the new default font in Word but that change doesn’t suit everyone. In particular, Aptos
Switch from the new Aptos default font in Outlook to another font that you prefer and is has better readability in Outlook desktop (Windows or Mac) and Outlook (new). Personally I’ve tried to like Aptos fonts but after a few months they still offend my eyes, especially in emails. It’s
Many different ways to type or insert laundry care symbols, which appear on clothing labels, into Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Laundry care symbols can be for laundry area signs or for fun like this t-shirt. Or alternative symbols in a PowerPoint slide. All five symbols were black laundry care icons.
