All about Microsoft Office for Apple Mac. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook on macOS
Microsoft 365 for Mac, Office 2021 for Mac and earlier versions.
Microsoft is making crucial changes to their Microsoft Office 365 Education licenses that will increase costs to many schools and colleges. Office 365 A1 plus – gone! The Office 365 A1 Plus program for Education will be retired by Microsoft on August 1, 2024. A1 Plus included Office desktop apps
Here’s how to find out what type of Microsoft Office 365 licence you have with details hidden from the usual About dialog box. We recently showed it’s important for for perpetual non-subscription versions of Office like Office 2021 or Office 2019 to know if the purchase is Retail/Volume or OEM.
In addition to Manual, Paragraph and Style page breaks there are two unusual ways that Microsoft Word can insert a page break where you might not expect one. Keep with next and Keep lines together. Learn about Word Page Breaks: Visible and Invisible Page Breaks in Word and Add a Manual
There are many different ways to insert a page break into a Microsoft Word document, some are visible and others invisible even with Show All turned on. Luckily, Word has a straightforward way of doing this with a manual or separate Page Break. It’s also possible to associate a page break with the paragraph, which is a lot easier manage page breaks but they are somewhat invisible and it’s not
There’s a simple way to manually insert or force a page break in Microsoft Word. Also delete a page break later. Word will automatically insert page breaks in your text depending on the size of paper you have selected; they may not be in the place you want them. You can’t delete
For all the changes Microsoft has made to Search (aka Tell Me), they continue to ignore one basic that would make Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook a lot easier to work with. Here’s some examples of how Microsoft Office search badly needs fixing. Search (formerly called “Tell Me”) usually appears
The Sharing options in Office are changing, yet again with a new ‘sharing experience’ in all Microsoft Office 365 apps for desktop, web and mobile. We’ll explain the changes, including a few options that Microsoft hasn’t mentioned. All the usual Microsoft buzzwords have been recycled to describe these changes; “streamlined”,
Microsoft is making Clipchamp available to their Microsoft 365 commercial customers after limiting access to consumer users for too long. As usual, Microsoft’s announcement has many ‘fine print’ details to annoy paying customers. Clipchamp is Microsoft’s online video editing service. It’s been available to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family customers
Here’s how to make a list of all the available fonts on a computer by making a table in Word complete with sample text using each font. It makes a Word table of all the fonts, including sample text like this. VBA features on show The code is fairly straight-forward
Three ways to insert the Recycle symbol ♻ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. There are many different and specialist Recycle symbols. We’ll focus on the standard, generic symbol, officially called “Black Universal Recycling Symbol” in three forms: Emoji or Unicode
Insert the Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk ✻ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk ✻ symbol has a circle in the middle with six ‘teardrop’ spokes around it. It has no specific purpose but is a more decorative alternative to the standard
Excel’s IRR() function is a straightforward way to calculate the rate of return for investments which have regular return/payment dates with amounts which might vary. Such as a simple fixed-interest bond, where cash flows occur at regular intervals such as monthly or yearly. When expressed as a percentage return, it’s
There’s a nice little Excel function that will calculate the rate of return on any asset like a stock or fund including income/dividends with purchases and sales over time. The secret sauce is XIRR() a function which calculates an internal rate of return with uneven interest or dividend payments. In
Can you scan a picture or document directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook? Certainly, but these days we’re spoiled for choice and have fantastic features like using a smartphone as a simple scanner. Back in the day, you could click a button in Word 2003 to scan a document
An easy and fast way to add pictures into Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. We mentioned a faster way to get a scanned image into Word via the ‘scan to clipboard’ option available in some scanning software. There are similar options available for copying existing image files into Word, Excel
The change of fonts in Microsoft 365 also means the default styles are also changing in Excel 365. Here’s what the new styles look like and the exact settings Microsoft has chosen in Excel 365 for Windows and Mac. The new Excel defaults for a worksheet mostly use Aptos Narrow
The change of fonts in Microsoft 365 also means a change of default styles (normal and headings) are also changing. Here’s what the new styles look like and the exact settings Microsoft has chosen for Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. At the moment, these fonts and styles are in Microsoft 365
Microsoft Excel has a handy function called NPER that can help you work out how long it’ll take to pay off a loan. It’ll show how adding even a little bit per payment can help clear a loan faster and some practical advice on using NPER in the real world.
There’s another way to make a list of all the fonts in a Word document. This method is probably faster than using VBA to search for fonts through large documents. This is an alternative to the VBA code in How to list all fonts in a Word document Word documents
Let Excel help you cut your credit card debt by calculating the monthly payments needed to pay off the card. The PMT function in Excel calculates of loan payments needed to clear the debt in a certain time. Suppose there is a remaining balance of $5,400 on a credit card
Excel can calculate the future value of your investments, such as finding out a return you’ll get on a Certificate of Deposit (CD) or Term Deposit. There’s an inbuilt Excel function to make the task very simple. It’s just one way Excel can make your financial decisions a whole lot
Excel’s new AI functions, under the Copilot branding, have started to appear in some public releases. Here’s the full list with syntax of all six AI functions. The functions have started appearing in some Excel 365 for Windows, Insiders Beta (version 2308 build 16708.20004). Not all Insiders see the same
Add some extra flair to your plain Excel charts by inserting pictures or graphics within the chart. It’s remarkably easy and enhances charts a lot. You can simply enhance your graph by inserting a business logo in the chart area. Or you might want to add images to replace the text labels. You may want to insert an image of money to represent dollars spent,
Here are samples of the five new fonts available for Microsoft 365 and Office 2021 customers one of which has become the new default font, but under a different name – Aptos. Did we say five? … there are really 10 new sans-serif fonts. Each of the five newbies come
