Ignore the clickbait headlines and social media experts, Microsoft Word still has a Thesaurus feature. A slightly related feature has gone but Synonyms is still alive and kicking. Hereâs Wordâs Thesaurus or âSynonymsâ still in Word 365 using Microsoftâs example word. And hereâs Synonyms in Word 2024, using a more
Microsoft sent a promo email headed âYour Microsoft 365 subscription just got betterâ, be aware of the details that Microsoft either missed. ‘forgot’ or buried in the fine print. That email explains about Copilot arriving in Microsoft 365 but little on the severe limitations and nothing on the price rise.
Microsoft is slowly adding an option to disable Copilot AI from their Microsoft 365 apps, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Hereâs what youâre supposed to see on your computer, but wonât necessarily. An option to disable Copilot is being rolled out to Microsoft 365 for Windows and Mac. First in Word
AI technology without limits is available in Microsoft Office with Copilot Pro. AI features are integrated into Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for personal customers. Here’s how to get Copilot Pro and the secrets to getting it working. Copilot is Microsoft’s name for their AI based cloud services. They have
Microsoft has fixed an embarrassing bug that caused Microsoft 365 applications and Outlook (classic) to crash on Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 systems. The problem stemmed from a recent Office update that integrated the React Native framework to support certain Microsoft 365 apps’ features. The impact was limited
See how the price of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family has risen in USA, Canada, UK, Europe and many other countries. The new prices for Microsoft 365 consumer plans include Copilot with many limits and a high price. In some countries, it’s the first price rise in many years, despite
Microsoft 365 customers around the world are waking up to a new look in their Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook apps. It’s part of Microsoft’s huge changes to Microsoft 365 Family and Personal plans which include a very limited Copilot AI service and a big price rise. Microsoft 365 users
Hereâs two ways to make a running total column in Excel. The way you were probably taught and a much better and more flexible choice. Running or Accumulative Totals are a very common thing in spreadsheets. Hereâs a really simple example in columns C and E. Hereâs two ways to
How to prevent Microsoft from pushing a change from classic Outlook for Windows to their new and incomplete Outlook (new). Microsoft is pushing customers to use Outlook (new) even though the software doesnât have basic features like proper offline support or interactions between mailboxes. New Outlook also has a serious
Microsoft 365 Family and Personal plans are getting Copilot AI integration into their Office apps but it comes with a big price increase and many limits to what people get for the extra cost. Customers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand have seen massive prices rises in
You can now add images to your Copilot prompts / questions in Word and PowerPoint. Why bother with images? Well, they can save you time, help Copilot understand your requests better, and improve the accuracy of its responses. Whether you’re asking about a specific object or scene, images can clarify
If youâve ever been baffled by all the different things Microsoft calls Outlook, youâre not alone. Microsoft uses the âOutlookâ name for multiple apps, web services, mobile clients and desktop programs. From Outlook (classic) for Windows to Outlook.com and the Outlook mobile app, making it hard to know which version
Word field codes let you add automation or automatic content into documents. A simple example is the { DATE } field, which inserts the current date into a letter but there’s a lot more possible. Chances are good that you’ve already used field codes and not realised it. Date, PrintDate,
Microsoft Wordâs English dictionaries can be confusing because they donât always mark incorrect spelling differences between US and UK English (like color/colour). We did some tests with surprising results. English spellings can get screwy as you move between countries and thereâs a lot more overlap than many people realize or
Microsoft Excel 365 has built-in support for regular expressions (regex). The functions REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT and REGEXREPLACE have powerful pattern matching, text extraction and replacement directly into spreadsheet formulas, eliminating the need for VBA, add-ins or convoluted workarounds. Even better, the functions use a widely understood form of Regex for text-manipulation
How and why to remove words from the main Microsoft Word dictionary. The Office Exclusion List ensures a red squiggly underline appears to warn you about an unwanted word. Sometimes the supplied Office dictionary has words you don’t want or you’d like a warning about. Here’s how to put the
The new Outlook for Windows has a safety setting that might stop you seeing images in emails and is another privacy breach by Microsoft to snoop at customers data. Itâs buried deep in the software and turned on automatically. Deep in the Settings for Outlook (new) is a way to
The many different Microsoft Outlook versions have a way to block images linked to emails, that includes the so-called âspy pixelsâ used by many companies. See âSpy Pixelsâ email epidemic, the good and the bad You can choose to view pictures in an Outlook email by clicking a button at
2025 is a special number, as various social media posts have pointed out. It can be calculated in some interesting ways like (20 + 25)2 = 2025. Naturally we had to convert these into Excel formulas. 2025 is 45 squared, in other words, a ”perfect square”. This last happened in
2025 promises to be ‘interesting’ for Microsoft 365 and Office users, not always in a good way. Here’s some of the predictable events. What I can guarantee in 2025 is more Copilot and Outlook (new) hype â some justified and some stretching credibility. Happy New Year! Office 2016 and Office
Let’s take a deeper look at the latest announcement about the change to a new Outlook for Windows “Outlook (new)”. What it says, what Microsoft does NOT say and a close look at the much quoted ‘2029’ date. Hereâs a few things that occur to us after carefully noting whatâs
Hereâs how to find out what type of Microsoft Office licence you have; Subscription, Retail, Volume or OEM and other hidden details of your Office license. For perpetual non-subscription versions of Office like Office 2024, Office 2021 or Office 2019, itâs important to know if your purchase is Retail/Volume or
Outlook (new) for Windows doesn’t support Mail Merge from Word. Just one of the many limitations of that software which is still a work in progress. Weâve heard from a few people that Microsoft has âdroppedâ mail merge from Word but thatâs not true. Wordâs Mail Merge has been there for decades
Microsoft 365 Family and Personal users have a chance to beat the price rise widely expected to come in 2025. You can lock in the current price for up to five years. Why the expected price increase for Microsoft 365? Microsoft has already raised the price of Microsoft 365 in
