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Peter Deegan used to tell people that a simple digital watch could beat the crap out of the Apollo 11 lunar landing computer. And that was before modern smartwatches. He was wrong … It turns out that a humble USB-C charger has more ‘grunt’ than the rope memory computer on ‘Eagle’. Forest Heller has done a very detailed […]
Microsoft has released some limited time, introductory offers for Office 365 subscriber. They’ll mostly interest parents or people wanting some digital learning. These aren’t permanent Office 365 benefits like OneDrive storage or Skype minutes. Microsoft calls these ‘Partner Offers’, in other words promotional, trial lures to joining (yet) another service. The offers are for Office […]
One of the quiet improvements in Office is the regular updates to the Office dictionary used mostly in Word and Outlook but also other Office programs. They even handle new terms like Coronavirus or names such as Buttigieg. In olden days the main dictionary was only updated with major revisions of Office. Now the dictionary […]
Word and PowerPoint have some great ways to add a border or frame around an image, graphic or logo. We covered these broadly in a Framing Pictures in Office and now we will look in detail at the Compound Type, or multi-line borders. Compound Type is Microsoft’s name for the options of two-line borders with […]
Xlookup is now available across all the Excel programs and apps, making it a viable alternative to Vlookup/Hlookup for Office 365 users. The Xlookup function is the much-improved way to lookup values from a list or table. It works really well but it’s taken some time to appear across all incarnations of Excel 365 and […]
