All about Microsoft Office for Apple Mac. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook on macOS
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Thereâs a faster way to clone or reuse slides from existing PowerPoint presentations. Reuse Slides lets you pick a slide and copy it in a flash. Which sounds great unless youâre an unlucky person who hits a useless and unhelpful Microsoft error message. Reuse Slides is mostly promoted as a
Choose from two ways to display event notifications or reminders in Outlook for Mac. Either familiar Outlook display or integrated with macOS Notifications. Thereâs a catch which Microsoft buries in their fine print. You have to use the âNew Outlook 365 for Macâ which is still very much a crippled
The 2022 âVenturaâ release of macOS has a new way to switch between apps called âStage Managerâ. It works well with Office for Mac, making it easier to see whatâs open and available. But Stage Manager has its frustrations in this first release. Stage Manager appears on the left side,
Wordâs Readability check is a great extension to the familiar Microsoft Word Spelling & Grammar. Word can check the complexity of your writing and give you an idea of whether your text will be readable, meaning understood, by your target audience. We’ll show you how to see Word’s Readability Statistics,
PowerPoint is getting a Portrait or vertical orientation option for PowerPoint mobile on Apple iPhone and iPad. Portrait mode is already in PowerPoint desktop (Windows/Mac) though itâs hidden. Portrait mode for slides and videos is quite common these days (TikTok and similar are all portrait) even though it offends purists
Why does the same picture appear rotated sideways or flipped in Outlook for Windows/Mac but right side up elsewhere? It’s an image annoyance in older versions of Microsoft Outlook which we’ll explain. Outlook for Windows or Mac lets you preview a picture by clicking on the attachment icon but sometimes
Scaling Text in Word is another Microsoft Word text effect to make the text larger or smaller. Specifically, the Scale option stretches or contracts the horizontal width of the characters and spaces between. Hereâs an example of normal, 150% and 66% scaling. To change the scaling of text in Word, select the text you want to
Hereâs how to keep track of your 2022 World Cup football team and when the live broadcasts will be in your time zone â all by adding a calendar to show in Microsoft Outlook for Mac, iPhone or iPad. Hereâs all the 2022 World Cup fixtures in Outlook, on the
Need a Christmas emoji or symbol? Here’s a quick and searchable list of all the Xmas emoji for documents, sheets, slides, emails or messages that you can use or copy. This list has all the Christmas related emoji we can think of, the broadest sense both secular and religious. These
Here’s some Outlook tricks to help planning for the Soccer World Cup or any other event. (Obviously, we’re joking about ‘normal’ peopleđ. Our football â˝ loving friends are sure they are normal and pity humans with no interest in the round-ball game.) We’ve already looked at how to import a
In the Microsoft Office Icons there are six Soccer (football) related graphics, a ball, running player and a goal net with two variations on each. Â Start with those plain icons to make more colorful designs with a few clicks. There are also some Soccer â˝ emoji in Office Along the
There are unanswered questions about Microsoftâs âmoveâ of Outlook.com attachments to OneDrive storage. Microsoft is being quite âopaqueâ about the details of the change. On 1 Feb 2023 the space used by attachments in an Outlook.com mailbox will be counted against the OneDrive space quota not the mailbox limit. Thatâs
If you look in the Outlook desktop for Windows data folder, you might see a .NST file as well as the usual .OST and .PST data files. Office Watch explains what a .NST file is, should you do a backup and whether itâs safe to delete. An .NST file is
You might see mentions of âOutlook Groupsâ or even Groups appearing in your Outlook navigation pane. What are Outlook Groups, Microsoft 365 Groups and what can you do with them? For many people, the first thing they know about Groups is when the name appears in their Outlook, either Outlook
Deep inside Microsoft Word’s (Windows/Mac) grammar checks are some detailed settings like one to look for contractions such as: Â I’m, you’re, shouldn’t, couldn’t and haven’t. These contractions are normal and accepted by Word 2016 Windows/Mac in it’s standard settings but you can change that. Formal Language, Consider avoiding contractions You’ll
It’s possible and practical to make ‘handwritten’ notes or edits direct on your Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents. Instead of printing them out and using a pen/pencil, do it on-screen with a digital pen. Here’s a real-world guide to how you can do it, leaving aside the hype and flashy
Two ways to put left and right aligned text on the same line in Microsoft Word. Thereâs the commonly used option and the less well-known choice. BONUS: putting left, center and right aligned text on one line. Weâll show how to make Left and Right aligned text looking like this.
Type the Facsimile sign or Fax symbol âťÂ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. FAX âť symbol is a single character with the letters FAX, normally used to prefix a telephone number in a letter heading or footer. For younger readers:
Occasionally OneNote pages or whole notebooks go missing ⌠hereâs eight places to try finding them again. Donât Panic OneNote saves everything ⌠it was designed that way from Day One. Itâs unlikely that something has truly been erased. More likely that the page, section or notebook is hiding somewhere
Type the Hundred points đŻ emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. 100 points đŻ symbol is also known as â100â, âKeep it 100â or âKeeping it realâ. How 100 points đŻ looks in different fonts. Hereâs some examples of how
Type the Face with Tears of joy đ emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Face with Tears of joy đ emoji is one of the most popular, if not THE most commonly used emoji. Also known as Laughing Crying, Laughing Tears,
You can add a Twitter blue or gray checkmark to your Microsoft Office documents including Word docs, PowerPoint slides. Weâll show you how to add the âverifiedâ graphic at any size you need with the exact blue, gray or some other color. Oh, and save yourself $8 a month <kidding>.
Microsoft Create is a new part of Microsoft 365 that will replace the existing Office templates site and more. Office Watch explains how to use the Create site now, the many categories available and whatâs to come. Cut through all the usual Microsoft Hype⢠like âultimate creator launchpadâ and the
A fascinating graphic shows were Microsoft (MSFT) makes money, how much profit it makes and tax paid. App Economy Insights https://twitter.com/EconomyApp made some charts comparing the Income and Spending of Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft. As you can see, the biggest money maker for Microsoft isnât the traditional cash-cows Windows
