Add a background image to any page in a Word document instead of a solid color or pattern. Using a picture as the background for Word page isn’t as straight forward because the official or approved method doesn’t work very well. We’ll show you other Word features that work better
Insert the Eye of Horus 𓂀 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Eye of Horus 𓂀 is an Egyptian Hieroglyph symbolizing protection. According to Egyptian myth, Horus lost his left eye during his struggle with Seth, and it was restored
Using simple animations in PowerPoint presentations is relatively easy, but you can also take them to the next level, to jazz up your photos in PowerPoint. Using this method might take a few more steps than just creating a straightforward animation, but the result is well worth it … In
The Researcher button on Word’s References tab lets you lookup information online and copy into a document with formatted but optional citation. It’s likely to dismay many teachers and lecturers. Researcher is a cloud service, only available in Word 365 for Windows and Mac. The Researcher pane is really a
Word and Office have several up “pointing hand” symbols available in some fonts. Here’s the Unicode options explained and shown with the codes and shortcuts to type them in Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook too. There are various Up pointing hand options in Unicode: Index – a pointing index finger with
A slip of the typing fingers can be funny, insulting or embarrassing, turning an innocent word into a naughty one. There are features in Word to help avoid these mistakes which have improved over the years but they aren’t 100% reliable It only takes a single letter to turn an
Google has just doubled the cells available in their Sheets spreadsheet, taking it to 10 million cells. Still well short of Excel’s 17 million cells. Sheets can now stretch to 18,278 columns (column ZZZ) for all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers. Excel has
A long-standing bug in Microsoft Word quietly breaks your document navigation when you place Heading styles inside a table. The Table of Contents shows all your headings correctly, but the Navigation Pane silently drops any heading that lives inside a table cell. The same broken behavior ripples into PDF Bookmarks
As long time space and SF nerds, Office Watch can’t resist putting the look of 2001: A Space Odyssey into Word documents and PowerPoint slides. We’ll show you how to make a ‘close match’ using just the fonts and features in Microsoft Office. We’ll also explain the details behind that
Character Map is a Windows feature that’s very useful for Microsoft Office users. It lets you insert symbols and, importantly, find them which is not possible within apps like Word. Windows Character Map has been around for as long as we’d like to remember and it’s mostly done right. If
Google has a color selector among the many features in their home page. It’s free, works in any browser and it’s easy to copy color codes into Office. Search for ‘Color picker’ or https://www.google.com/?q=color+picker then move the two circles to choose the exact color and shade you want. The HEX
Excel has ways to add a list of dates by day, weekday, month or year either by the fill handle or the Series command. Date Series with Fill Handle You probably know about the Fill handle tool to fill the remaining cells. Once highlighted, just hover your mouse in the
Gridlines are on every spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel workbooks. Did you know those grey lines can be colored to make them fancy, more obvious or more discreet? Let’s look at two ways you can make colored gridlines in Excel. Here’s what it looks like with the pink, black and red
Microsoft Word can generate a list of all the images, graphs, tables or equations in a document – called a Table of Figures. Just like a table of contents, this list can include page references or links to each figure or picture. A Table of Figures can be useful for
Microsoft 365 does an online licence check at least every 30 days. If your device will be offline for weeks, how can you make sure you have a full 30 days licence before disconnecting from the Internet? Here’s how to update your Microsoft 365 licence before going offline. Office 365
Word has settings to automatically change the case of words that you type, fix common capitalization typing problems add items of your own to have capitalized the way you want them as you type. Word also has options to manually Change Case in Microsoft Word. The settings are in the
Styles can be saved in a Word document but are most effective when saved in a template. Changing the style in a template will affect any document that uses the same template. At the bottom of the Modify Style dialog are two choices for where to save the style. Microsoft
Here’s how to make a lookalike for the Law & Order TV show title card in either PowerPoint or Word. Last week we showed how to make the Law & Order opening screen image and how to use that look in slides or documents. Many readers asked why Office-Watch.com didn’t
One way to open a PowerPoint presentation could be to copy the opening of the Law & Order TV shows. Here’s how to get the same look in your PPT slides or Word documents plus the distinctive sound. The same formatting can be used in Word, maybe as a callout
Microsoft Teams is becoming another way for criminals to infiltrate an organization or spread malware. According to Help Net Security viruses are being distributed via Teams Chats. A program with an innocent name like UserCentric.exe allows hackers to remotely control computers, install DLL’s and get more information about the user
Sometimes a document can’t be edited in Teams for no good reason. Here’s some things to try and workaround the problem. Teams uses SharePoint to manage documents and sometimes the technology doesn’t behave the way it should. A document that you should have full access to, can only be viewed.
Here’s how to convert an older .doc .xls or .ppt into a safer and smaller .docx .xlsx .pptx even if you don’t have Microsoft Office. Any smart computer user is wary of documents received in the old .doc .xls .ppt formats because they are regularly used to transmit viruses. The
There are just a few days left for Business customers to lock in lower prices for Microsoft 365, before Business plans get more expensive on 14 March 2022. No customer likes a price increase but Microsoft’s targeted rises in Microsoft 365 Business plans have been unpopular with both customers and
Spreadsheets aren’t just for numbers and money, they can also be used to save lives when saved online and collaborating with other people. Lismore is northern NSW, Australia has been struck with massive floods leaving many people stranded in their homes, some trapped against rising waters. The emergency services were
