Change the font on one paragraph in Microsoft Word and watch the rest of the document change with it. That is ‘Automatically update’, a checkbox hiding in every Word style’s Modify Style box. It is off for most styles, but when it is on, Word rewrites the style itself every
If Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint or OneNote suddenly refuse to open on your Mac and flash Unknown Error 0x0 or License Not Found, you are not locked out and your subscription is fine. It was a licensing bug on Microsoft’s side, now fixed. The repair is free, needs no reinstall,
Excel now lets you choose which AI model powers Copilot, but Microsoft does a poor job of explaining what each one does. The Copilot model picker in Excel offers Auto, two OpenAI GPT models and two Anthropic Claude models. Here is which Copilot model to leave selected for everyday work,
Microsoft is killing Copilot Podcasts and Copilot Labs, two of the more novel features in Microsoft 365 Copilot. If you turn documents, meetings, or web topics into listenable audio shows, save what you want now. There is no admin switch to keep the feature alive, and August 2026 looks like
Microsoft is switching off Meeting Insights, the free Outlook feature that automatically shows emails and files linked to your upcoming meetings. From mid August 2026 it starts disappearing, and by early September 2026 it is gone. The catch: the replacement only works if you pay for a Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft is changing the email address that Microsoft Forms uses for automated messages, and if you filter those emails you need to act. From mid August 2026, Forms notifications will arrive from no-reply@forms.mail.microsoft instead of maccount@microsoft.com. Any Outlook rule, admin mail flow rule, or spam filter tied to the old
Copilot Notebooks are quietly becoming one of the genuinely useful parts of the whole Copilot push, and Microsoft has now opened them up well beyond the expensive Copilot license. A Copilot Notebook is a workspace where you gather the files, pages and links for one project, then ask Copilot questions
Copilot Notebooks are one of the most useful new AI features in Microsoft 365, and they fix the problem most people have with AI: not knowing where its answers come from. Inside a Notebook, Copilot only reads the sources you give it and nothing else, so you get useful summaries,
Word makes it surprisingly hard to see a full list of styles in a document. There’s no tidy panel that lays out every style and shows how they connect to each other. The only option built into Word is a hidden Print setting that produces a long, flat report that’s
Making an index in Word by hand gets tedious fast, but Word hides three real time savers most people never touch. In this second part of our indexing guide we show you how to mark an index entry that spans a range of pages using bookmarks, why Word fills your
An index is the alphabetical list of terms and page numbers at the back of a book, and Microsoft Word can build one for you. We show you how to make an index in Word, starting with the basics: preparing your document, marking index entries and generating a simple, professional
Microsoft Forms Copilot has quietly turned one of the humblest corners of Microsoft 365 into a better survey and quiz builder. Copilot can now draft a whole form from a plain English prompt, suggest fixes to questions you already have, and even add basic branching, all inside one pane next
Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday is one of the biggest on record, with a massive 570 bug and security fixes landing on your Windows, Microsoft 365 and Office machines. One buried fix is critical: a BitLocker bypass that let thieves open an encrypted drive without your password or recovery key.
Microsoft has quietly handed Windows 10 users another free year. Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) now run to 12 October 2027, not the October 2026 cutoff everyone had been planning around. If you are already enrolled, the extra year is automatic and costs nothing. If you are not, enrollment
Excel’s Flash Fill has a fatal flaw: it forgets. Flash Fill runs once, on the rows in front of it, and then it’s done. Edit a cell, add a row or refresh the data and nothing updates. Excel now has four alternatives all better ways to split or join text
Word now lets you choose which AI runs Copilot, but Microsoft does a poor job of explaining what the choices actually do. The Copilot model picker in Word offers Auto, two Anthropic Claude models and OpenAI’s GPT in Quick Response or Think Deeper flavors. Here is what each Copilot model
Need the Spanish flag in Word, Excel or PowerPoint? Here is the fast, correct way to do it. We will show you where to download a proper scalable version of Spain’s flag (so it stays sharp at any size), the exact red and yellow color codes you need to match
Adding the Argentina flag to Word, Excel or PowerPoint should take thirty seconds, but Argentina sets a trap that most countries do not. There are officially two national flags, the ceremonial one with the golden Sun of May and a plain version without it, and picking the wrong one is
Adding the French flag 🇫🇷“Le Tricolore” to Word, Excel or PowerPoint looks like the easiest job in Office. It is three colored bands. What could go wrong? Quite a lot, as it turns out. There are two official French blues in circulation and the French state has switched between them,
Adding the England flag “St George’s Cross” to Word, Excel or PowerPoint should take thirty seconds, but most people get it wrong twice. Here is where to get a proper scalable graphic of the England flag, the exact hex colors, insert and enhance it in Office, and why the England
Splitting text in Excel used to mean wrestling with nested LEFT, RIGHT, MID and SEARCH formulas. Not any more. Excel 365 and Excel 2024 have three functions that do the job in one step: TEXTBEFORE, TEXTAFTER and TEXTSPLIT. TEXTBEFORE grabs everything before a delimiter, TEXTAFTER grabs everything after it, and
Excel Flash Fill is one of the fastest ways to split, join and reformat text in Microsoft Excel without writing a single formula. Type one or two examples of the result you want and Excel spots the pattern, then fills the rest of the column automatically. It works on Windows
Microsoft has quietly added OpenAI’s new GPT 5.6 model to Microsoft 365 Copilot on the very same day it reached ChatGPT, a surprisingly fast turnaround. The catch is that Microsoft renames the model, so instead of the clear Sol, Terra and Luna labels that OpenAI uses, Copilot users only see
Microsoft 365 business prices jumped on July 1, 2026, and if you manage a company or government subscription your next renewal will cost more. The increase hits Business, Enterprise, Frontline, and Government plans, with rises ranging from 0% to a steep 43%. Home users on Personal, Family, Premium, and Education
