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.
Visio 2021 has only two new and changed features in the high-end Office 2021 and Office LTSC 2021 bundles. Visio’s new shapes and stencils Microsoft has added many more stencils for users to use when creating Azure diagrams. For example, stencils can be used to create diagrams on network topologies, virtual machine configurations, operations, and […]
Back in 2010 an Office Watch reader drew our attention to this Microsoft Knowledge Base article 2008277 (update: after we published this article the KB article was totally removed by Microsoft). “Error message “The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open” when opening a Word file from outside of Word” It’s was curious […]
An essential part of Word’s citations and bibliography feature is the Source Manager dialog – here’s how to, er, manage the Source Manager. Open the Source Manager from References | Citations and Bibliography | Manage Sources. There is a Current List (at right) which is saved in the current document. On the left if the […]
The workload of students and academics has been made a lot easier with the arrival of Citation features in Word. They are useful for everyone, not just in academia. Citations are individual references to source material you’ve quoted in your document. A Bibliography is a list of citations and sources used in your document. Word […]
Microsoft Word’s ‘Similarity Checker’ compares Word document text with online sources. That can warn the writer / student or reader / teacher about plagiarism or accidental copying. Word Similarity Checker uses Bing search to compare the text with online sources. It shows a percentage of text similar to text found online. It’s an extension of […]
