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.
Losing recent work on a document is really frustrating so here are a few tips to make Office document saving more reliable, with less risk of loss if the computer or Office programs crash. A few changes to Microsoft’s defaults can mean lower blood pressure for you. Save AutoRecover every
Insert lower case letter with circles ⓐ to ⓩ in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook etc. Officially they are called Circled Latin Small Letters. Circled small letters in different fonts Only two common Office fonts have double circled digits Segoe UI Symbol and Calibri. Here’s how the symbols look in both
The rainbow shape with multi-color effect is possible in text, shapes and images for any Microsoft Office documents including Word and PowerPoint. With a few changes you can make a rainbow for documents or slides. Rainbow Text Effect Insert | WordArt choosing whichever preset is closest to what you want.
Here’s how to mask a photo with any Microsoft Office shape or icon and do it with full control over what appears from the original image. We’ve already explained two simple ways to crop a photo to a shape or fill a shape with some options to move and resize
The picture option ‘Set Transparency Color’ doesn’t always work properly in Microsoft Office. We’ll explain the problem and suggest some fixes. When we were making our article “Make a transparent shape to mask a photo in Word, PowerPoint and more” we discovered that the ‘Set Transparent Color’ option didn’t work
It is possible to display your Mac screen to another person or even let someone take control of your Mac to fix a problem or help learn a computer skill. We’ll explain how to find and start the Screen Sharing app in macOS and an alternative. Windows has a similar
The ‘speech to text’ Dictation feature is now in OneNote for Mac. Look on the far-right of the Home tab for the Dictate button. Click on it to make the little Dictation toolbar appear. Our book Dictation and Read Aloud in Office explains Dictation and other Office speech features from
There are two ways to switch between Letter (Imperial) and A4 (Metric) paper sizes for Microsoft Word documents on Windows or Mac. One is easy and temporary, the other changes the document itself. Also how to switch Word’s default paper size and how to save PDF’s to another page size.
There’s a simple way to tell if your mailbox has the useful plus + address feature. Plus email addressing (aka disposable or sub-address) is sometimes available automatically (Gmail or Outlook.com) or has to be switched on (Microsoft 365 hosting). Some other mail hosts might have an option to allow plus
Have all your favorite Office features and buttons in one place. Commonly used buttons or options that aren’t on the regular ribbon. The Office ribbon lets you make a personal tab filled with your choices. We will show you how easy it is to make in Word below, but this
A Word Drop-down list lets you quickly choose one of several options. It’s a fast way to make new documents with a standardized pattern. Don’t be scared, it’s easy to create even though the word ‘Developer’ is involved. We’ll show you how to make drop-down lists, change the bland ‘Choose
How to make a bullet list that has different bullet symbol or emoji for each Word or PowerPoint line. With the wide range of symbols and emoji in Word and PowerPoint there’s scope for creative lists that use symbols that relate to each line. It’s not possible to do that
Insert digits with double circles from ⓵ to ⓽ in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook etc. Use them as an alternative way to number a list like this … Double Circled digits in different fonts Only two common Office fonts have double circled digits Segoe UI Symbol and Calibri. Here’s how
Type beamed ♫ or joined ♬ musical notes into Word documents, Excel worksheets, PowerPoint slides or emails. It’s possible to type musical notes and other notation in Word documents. Full musical scoring isn’t practical (there’s other software). Unicode only has two ‘beamed’ or joined musical notes, the Eighth or Quaver and the Sixteenth of Semi-quaver.
Type musical notes from breve 𝅜 (double whole note) to the semihemidemisemiquaver 𝅘𝅥𝅲 (128th note) in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook etc. It’s possible to type musical notes and other notation in Word documents. Full musical scoring isn’t practical (there’s other software). How musical notes look in different fonts. Most fonts don’t include musical notes. The
How to make clue cards like the Jeopardy! TV show to use in PowerPoint or Word. Clue … it’s not as straightforward as you might think but we’ll take you through the steps and tricks. Use the well-known format to pose questions for your PowerPoint audience or as a section/chapter
Insert the Wavy Dash 〰 symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Wavy Dash 〰 symbol is like a long curvy version of the em-dash, there’s no specific meaning or purpose. Not to be confused with the two Tilde ~
Switching paragraphs from Normal style to Body Text styles in Microsoft Word is a clever use of the Replace feature that can switch text with any style to another. We’ve talked about how savvy Word users have their main text paragraphs in the Body Text style instead of the standard Normal
In a move sure to anger some folks, Microsoft is adding pronoun choices to contacts details on profile cards. People will be able to let others know how they like to be addressed: she/her, her/him, they/them or other choices. Before some blood pressure levels rise to dangerous levels, Office Watch
Make an automatic list of tabs in an Excel workbook a better and more flexible way with options to create clickable links and sort the sheet list. Unlike older methods, it works in Excel for Windows and Mac. We’ve already talked about fitting more tabs on the screen or making
There’s more possible with the humble ! exclamation mark / point in Microsoft Word or Office. At least five different ! available and that’s before changing color, size and other text effect options. We’ll show you ways to insert FIVE different exclamation marks into Office, as characters, icons, symbols and several
There are risks when sending a Microsoft Word document to someone when you don’t need to, one landlord found that out the hard way. A Word doc can be changed if you’re not careful. We have some suggestions for avoiding unexpected editing traps. A tenant in the USA received a draft
PowerPoint 365 (Windows, Mac and iOS) can now use separate caption files for audio inside a presentation and also export the captions with media. What’s new are captions for audio files like a transcript of a lecture or even song lyrics for a PowerPoint ‘sing-a-long’. There’s a catch but one
Microsoft’s hints that AI ‘help’ is coming soon to Word, Outlook and other Office apps are for investors not paying customers. Don’t get too excited (or worried) about the immediate future of AI tools into either Search or Office apps. There are problems with current AI offerings and traps for
