Insert the Ear 👂symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Use the Ear 👂 symbol for many situations including an icon for ‘Listen” or ‘hear’. Or to complement the Eye 👁 emoji How Ear 👂 looks in different fonts. Two Windows
The latest Photos app in Windows 11 and Windows 10 has a ‘one stop’ place to resize an image and show the file size after the changes. It’s something users have wanted for over a decade! Sometimes Microsoft sneaks in something truly good and useful, without the fanfare or hype
There are many ways to make pictures smaller, in both senses of the word. Here are three more options including great news for Windows 11 & Windows 10 users plus an important warning. Converting images into a smaller file size is sometimes essential. The large digital camera images (can be
Whether you’d like to join the Force or make fun of it, here’s how to get the famous Star Wars look in Word, PowerPoint and Office. See Star Wars movie opening and end credits in PowerPoint Star Wars font There are a few ‘Star Wars’ fonts available. All probably in breach
Office-Watch.com has Star Wars Day covered with a series of articles which add the spirit of the Rebel Alliance or the Empire to your Microsoft Office documents, workbooks and slides. Star Wars Day is 4th May each year … “May the fourth be with you” geddit? Star Wars fonts Star
At an important UK inquiry, a lawyer claims that he didn’t know how to save an email attachment. The evidence suggests that he might be telling the truth about that minor detail. We explain how Outlook prints an email attachment. This is a small part of the inquiry into the
Accessing Microsoft AI technology Copilot with Microsoft Office is possible through two different methods, each tailored to the specific Microsoft 365 plan you have Both Copilot options only work for Microsoft 365 software (Windows or Mac). Not Office 2021, Office 2019 or other versions of Office. Copilot Pro Copilot Pro
The long-standing Trim Video feature in PowerPoint desktop has now reached the browser based version as well as in the desktop Windows and Mac versions. If you’ve ever used Trim Video in either PowerPoint for Windows or Mac, this ‘new’ feature will be familiar in PowerPoint on the web. Any
PowerPoint offers compression embedded video and audio files, reducing the overall file size. But these options aren’t where you might expect to find them, aren’t selective and need to be used with care. There is compression option for media files (video or audio) to a suitable quality level and make
The new Outlook for Windows can now import messages saved in single files as .eml .msg or .opt formats. Like most ‘new’ features in new Outlook for Windows, it’s really a catch-up feature to match something in the existing Outlook for Windows. All three formats are ways to save emails
After setting up Outlook for Windows (classic) maybe your older messages aren’t showing up quickly? That might be because of a hidden default set to suit Microsoft which should be changed to benefit you. For most mailboxes (Outlook.com, Exchange Server etc) Outlook for Windows (classic) can synchronize a copy of
It’s possible to RSVP to an event or meeting and say whether they’ll be attending in the old fashioned way (aka “face to face”) or virtually. Look for an ‘in-person’ event option to appear just above the location line. An event can also be a Teams meeting, making it what
Outlook can now mark the difference between a virtual and ‘in-person’ event in your calendar. It’s part of Microsoft’s “Hybrid” features intended for the modern world where people mix remote and in-office working. For any calendar event/appointment you might see a switch ‘In-Person Event’. Turn that on for any occasion
Smart or Generative Erase in Microsoft Designer has returned after an unexplained absence. Use it for graphics or just to fix a photo. Designers’ Generative Erase can remove people or objects from an image, replacing it with the surroundings. It does a good job doing something that, a few years
How to insert the Eye 👁 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Eye 👁 symbol is used for decoration “Look Here” or “See this”. Even as a fancy bullet point in Word or PowerPoint. How Eye 👁 looks in
Get better and more creative bullet lists in Word using an Icon or SVG graphic in Word or PowerPoint, you just have to be a little sneaky. Icons (Microsoft’s name for SVG graphics) would seem to be ideal for creative bullets. SVG’s can be resized, colored and adjusted without loss
Teams button creep into Office and Outlook ribbons because Microsoft tries to promote itself. Here’s how to get rid of it or any other Office buttons you don’t want. Teams icons prominently appear on Office ribbons, like this one on the Outlook Calendar ribbon. or this with Meet Now video
How to stop Microsoft Teams opening automatically when the computer starts – Windows or Mac. Microsoft wants to push their Teams software to as many people as possible. Part of that is making Teams (free or paid) really obvious or intrusive, depending on your point of view. Teams doesn’t take
Excel PivotTable can show a count of unique items if you know where to look. Handy to see the number of customers, products or students from a long data list. What is the count of unique customers who made purchases in each region? How many unique products were sold in
Microsoft has released a preview version of Office 2024 LTSC. Here’s how to get it, what’s in the preview and why not to bother with the preview software. Office 2024 is the next fixed price or perpetual license version of Microsoft Office that will be released later this year. The
OneNote for Windows can straighten handwritten, digital ink, text so it’s nicely even across the screen. We tested Straighten to see how it really works … and it’s not bad. Microsoft doesn’t provide a working example of straighten just a mockup with grey lines and nothing like the real OneNote
Word, PowerPoint and OneNote 365 for Windows have digital ‘ink to text‘ feature to not only handwrite into documents but also edit text and add bullet or numbered lists. Ink to Text requirements Before we explain the new feature, we’ll detail the specific requirements of the new ‘Ink to Text’
A strange case of letter spacing with a Microsoft font showing differences between Word and PowerPoint. Here’s the anomaly with three possible fixes for it and similar situations. Office Watcher Paul B noticed this peculiar spacing between a fullstop/period and digit 1 with the Tenorite font. In PowerPoint, the two
Computers are being infected with at least eight different viruses in an attack that uses steganography to hide nasty code in images linked from Word and Excel documents. But there’s good news for most Office users. Steganography is a way to hide text or code in an image or object.
