We’ve seen many cheap Microsoft Office 365 Family, Personal and other plans sold as ‘lifetime’, ‘perpetual’ or ‘never-ending’. It’s all lies. Some deals are obviously scams, like this one for just US$3 but others have more plausible prices. They are priced just under the regular street price to seem like
The Windows Emoji Panel has its problems which are amply demonstrated by a common symbol that’s hiding in the long symbol lists – the Pi symbol 𝜋 . We’ll explain where it’s hiding and generally grumble about this part of Windows 11 and 10. The Emoji Panel is in Windows
Microsoft has changed the way they rollout new features in Microsoft Office 365 which can lead to confusion and frustration, especially among the Insiders who try out new stuff before it reaches the public. In olden days (say 2018) getting new or changed features was simply a question of having
There’s a small but important point about Microsoft Word with Footnotes and Endnotes. It’s so important we’ve made this separate little article about copying or moving. The footnote or endnote is stored in that little superscript character in the document text. Copy, move or delete that superscript character and the
If Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) is misbehaving, try the Repair option. If that’s also causing trouble, there’s a hidden command prompt option. For any ‘Click to Run’ installations of Office for Windows (mostly Microsoft 365, Office 2019) there are Repair options available to fix common problems. Among these
At long last, Excel v4 macros are being blocked from running in Excel 365 by default. A move that greatly reduces the security risk from infected attachments in Excel 365 and Excel 2021. Excel v4 macros are a very old form of programming, literally 30 years old. It allowed macros
In Microsoft Word, circling around text can place emphasis or enhance the text appearance. There are a few methods you can choose in Word documents and you’re not limited to circles. We’ll show how to add a simple circle like this, plus a lot more. Add shape to document Go
How to insert the Rainbow 🌈 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Rainbow 🌈 emoji depicts a colorful arc of a rainbow, usually used to express positivity, hope, good fortune. The rainbow flag was designed and has been adopted by
Not only has Microsoft just added 25 more languages to the Dictation feature of Microsoft Office 365, they’ve also promoted six languages from ‘Preview’ to full dictation status. Microsoft has been unusually quiet about all the improvements in Dictation, focusing on the new languages while not even mentioning that six
Organizations which choose the Semi-annual update for their staff have been told by Microsoft that they are being forced to the monthly update schedule. Here are the details and a look at the nonsense that Microsoft is sprouting to explain the switch. Until now, organization administrators had two choices for
Here’s how to start page numbering at any point in a Word document. There’s no rule which says that visible page numbering has to start with Page 1, there are many situations where the first page in Word isn’t ‘Page 1’ as labelled in the header or footer. Some opening
Type the OK Hand sign 👌 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. OK Hand sign 👌 emoji is mostly used to symbolize approval, agreement, all that is well but there are other meanings. Scuba Divers use 👌 hand sign to
A little tale of lost luggage, a frustrated customer, Apple Airtags and using Powerpoint to publicly embarrass the airline and their courier partners. AviosAdventurer and partner flew from Frankfurt to London Heathrow via Dublin on Aer Lingus. The airline managed to leave all three of their bags (perhaps others?) beside
Excel Sheet View is Microsoft’s fix for a problem when sharing an Excel list or table among many people. We’ll explain how it works and what’s happening behind the scenes. A shared Excel list can be sorted or filtered in many different ways. It’s quite possible that two people can
Microsoft replaced the Paperclip emoji with their dreaded Clippy in Windows 11. Here’s how to get a proper paperclip symbol instead of the Microsoft branded alternative. We’ve already explained how the Windows 11 emoji panel has a paperclip with eyes and a smile. Which might be OK, but what if
The dread Clippy, the paperclip with eyes, is still hiding in Windows and Office. The Windows 11 emoji panel and Segoe UI Emoji font have Clippy instead of a plain old paperclip that other apps use. Use the Emoji Panel in Windows 11 (Win + . ) and search for
It’s not necessary to convert MP3 audio to the better MP4 format for PowerPoint but, if you want to, there are various ways to do it. MPEG-4 audio (.mp4 .m4a ) is recommended by Microsoft for PowerPoint 2016 (Windows and Mac), PowerPoint 2013 and Powerpoint for mobile devices. MP4 audio
LucidChart is a very nice diagramming and flowchart tool which is integrated with Microsoft Office for Windows or Mac. Office has diagram tools via Insert | Shapes but they aren’t very elegant. They serve for simple uses but not a lot more. LucidChart is better than the inbuilt Office diagram
The Shapes feature in Microsoft Office looks the same in all the major Office apps but it’s not. The important connectors feature, essential for flowcharts, is obvious Word or Outlook but works automatically in Excel, Publisher and PowerPoint. Update: We’ve updated this article after some clever readers reminded us of
Microsoft has generous price discounts for non-profit organizations but that hasn’t stopped them raising the cost of Microsoft 365 plans up to 28% The new prices start in September 2022, Microsoft announced them as monthly price changes to make them appear lower than they really are. Redmond does that knowing
Some Microsoft 365 plans have already increased in price and there’s likely more to come after an analyst’s report led to a drop in the Microsoft stock price. A UBS research note, as reported by Barrons, expressed concerns about the growth in sales of Microsoft 365/Office 365. That led to
Add some Passover images and icons to your documents, slides or emails from right inside Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel. If you know where to look there are images from the Jewish tradition related to Seder, Matzah and Menorah among many, Icons The SVG Icons collection (Insert | Illustrations |
How to insert the Cat Face 🐱 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Cat Face 🐱 emoji is a variant of the grinning face emoji, usually depicted as yellow on all platforms. How Cat Face 🐱 looks in different fonts.
There’s a simple way to copy a screen image into Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook or OneNote. Word, PowerPoint and other Office apps for Windows (Office 2010 and later) has a Screenshot option to paste an image from any open program window into a document or email. Go to the Insert tab of
