Microsoft 365 – the subscription / annual fee plan for Microsoft Office on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Includes Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365, Outlook 365 and many other ‘365’ programs, apps and services.
One of the most commonly used and confusing Excel functions is much better in Excel 365 and Excel 2021. Vlookup() has a new, better and easier replacement Xlookup(). It’s a truly good and useful addition to Excel, some might call it a godsend. Xlookup is available in Excel 365 for Windows/Mac/Apple/Android plus Excel 2021 for […]
A British medical office has made a right mess of selecting trainee anesthetists by the misuse of Excel. Let’s look at what happened and some ways you can avoid similar mistakes. As told in The Register, the UK Anesthetic National Recruitment Office (ANRO) had the job of selecting candidates from across seven regions to get […]
Safe Mode is a special way for Office apps to run when things aren’t working properly. Here’s how to use Safe Mode, if Office doesn’t offer it automatically, and what Safe Mode does differently. Safe Mode is useful in situations where you cannot open files in normal mode because the app is crashing, or you […]
OneNote desktop will start getting AI tools, CoPilot, from November 2023. According to a Microsoft Roadmap entry, ‘general availability*’ of CoPilot in OneNote will start next month. Not ‘1st November’ as some are reporting but starting during November. Copilot in OneNote will be able to make lists, create a plan or summarize text like this: […]
Excel 365 is getting a simple way to add checkboxes into cells to easily set True/False, Yes/No, On/Off binary settings. You can hear the cries of “About bloody time” across the Excel world <g>. It’s long been possible to add a checkbox into an Excel worksheet but it’s a clumsy setup, to put it mildly. […]
