Excel on the web has a new look and some nifty extra features like better ways to arrange rows/columns – move, resize, insert. A clever Freeze Pane option too. Some of these we’d love to see in desktop Excel. Overall, the web version of the Office apps now look more
Microsoft Office has a Remove Background tool for images but there are two better, faster and free ways to do the same job. Background removal lets you get an image with a transparent surround which can be merged/overlaid into any other slide or document more seamlessly (left) than a separate
Add Spain’s national flag into Office documents, Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then use some Office picture tools to enhance the image. Get the Spain Flag Image There are many, many copies of the Spanish flag available. We’ve opted for the Wikipedia site because it has an SVG scalable version (preferred)
You don’t need to pay for Microsoft’s AI service, Copilot, to get some of its benefits in Microsoft Office, especially Word, Outlook and Excel. Try converting text to a table or vice versa. The trick to grabbing text from an image. Along the way you’ll also discover some of the
Don’t miss this often overlooked Office trick, changing the color of an image or graphic in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. We did this in our article about inserting Prince’s ‘Love Symbol Number 2’ in Office documents. The image is available in various formats but always black, not purple. As
The nifty Excel ‘Data from Picture’ feature is in all Excel 365. It’ll convert a picture of text & numbers into a worksheet … almost. And there’s alternatives if you don’t have Microsoft 365. Data from Picture is already all versions of Excel 365 for Windows and Mac and Excel
Add England’s national flag “St George’s Cross” into Office documents, Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then use some Office picture tools to enhance the image. Not to be confused with the British “Union Jack” flag, the English flag is a simple red cross on a white field. Many online searches for
Many of us have seen the error message “Please check your network connection and try again” when the Internet is definitely available. What does this Office or OneDrive error message really mean and what can you do to fix it? This error message appears in Microsoft Office help and other
Now that Excel is getting proper Regular Expressions (Regex) here’s some resources to get you started. The upcoming Excel functions RegexTest(), RegexExtract() and RegexReplace() use a common type of regex (PCRE2) rather than some special Microsoft version. That’s important because each regex version has its own options and peculiarities. Using
OpenDocument is another set of file formats for word-processing, spreadsheets and presentations. It’s an international standard that’s supported by Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office. OpenDocument vs Microsoft Office docs While most people use the modern Microsoft Office document formats (.docx .xlsx .pptx etc) there’s a competitive set of Office file
Microsoft 365 is updating their OpenDocument format support to v1.4 which will improve compatibility with other software like LibreOffice. OpenDocument Format (ODF) is the International Standard for saving documents (ISO 26300 if you’re keeping score). It’s similar to the Microsoft Office formats in their basics of being XML based with
Python power in Excel 365 is getting closer to full public release. It’s now available for Microsoft 365 Current Channel (Preview), the last step before going out to all users. Python in Excel is possibly the most important improvement to Excel for a long time. All the power of Python
Excel 365 is getting two new translation functions to identify language from text or translate text from one language to another. Let’s see how the work and some problems that will appear. New in Excel 365 are: DetectLanguge() to identify the language of the text supplied, hopefully correctly (see below)
Add the US National flag “Old Glory” “The red, white and blue” into Office documents, Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then use some Office picture tools to enhance the image. The same help can be used for any other national flag, just look for a different source or our articles about
Why you can’t insert national flag emoji (among many) in Microsoft Office and Windows but can in Office for Mac, macOS, iPhone and iPad. We’ll explain the workaround necessary to insert national flags in Windows and Office for Windows. Apple devices (macOS, iPhone and iPad) show flag emoji properly like
In Excel 365 you can list the world’s top companies and their market capitalizations including the shortlived leader, NVIDIA. NVIDIA have a lock on the supply of AI related hardware and so their stock price has dramatically risen. ‘Dramatic’ is an understatement because NVIDIA briefly jumped over Microsoft and Apple
Excel’s PowerQuery has many clever tricks, one of them is merging and matching data from multiple tables into a single table. Combine, clean, and transform data from multiple sources into the single format you need; a table, PivotTable or PivotChart It’s a simple relational database with relations set to match
Microsoft has announced a way to bring AI technology into 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. As usual for a Microsoft launch, there’s lot’s of
How to choose more than one Microsoft Office file or document to open at the same time. One of the frustrations about the ‘pane’ interface in Office for Windows is the failure to include all the features that customers were accustomed to from the standard File dialog boxes. Microsoft added
Excel 365 is getting new functions that bring the power of Regular Expressions (RegEx) into spreadsheets. It’s HUGE news and a big step forward for Excel. We’ve spent some time trying out the new functions and we’re genuinely excited by the possibilities. These three Regular Expression (Regex) functions are now
Gantt chart for project management or event scheduling are possible in Excel. Here’s the step-by-step help plus a complete sample worksheet for our subscribers. Gantt chart can be widely used in project management for visualizing project schedules. They break down a project or event into tasks or activities as horizontal
A table or chart in Excel can be put into a Word document in two different ways but there are traps that Microsoft doesn’t mention in their help. We’ll explain what’s happening and how to fix it. This looks like a standard Word table and it can be formatted like
Use these handy Excel formulas for circle and sphere calculations! Whether they’re a distant memory from school days or a recent discovery, you can easily compute them using Pi π, or as Excel dubs it, Pi(). Many formulas rely on Pi 𝜋 so Excel has a simple function Pi() which
A recent poll commissioned by Microsoft confirms the widely held suspicion that people prefer the Calibri font over the new Aptos fonts pushed into Microsoft Office. This comes from a Twitter/X poll run by the Microsoft run @Microsoft365 account. The previous Office default font, Calibri, handily won the poll with