Type the Lambda upper case Λ, and Lambda lower case λ symbols (aka Lamda) in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Lambda/Lamda (uppercase Λ / lowercase λ) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. The uppercase symbol has various uses, it is
The Delta upper case Δ or Delta lower case δ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Delta (uppercase Δ / lowercase δ) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. It’s the “d” sound in Modern and Ancient Greek. Delta
Looking for some Christmas images, pictures or graphics? Microsoft Office has some in-built Xmas options for the festive tide of Yule. Add these images into Word documents, Outlook emails, PowerPoint slides or even Excel worksheets. Unsubtle Hint: Christmas Cheer with Office has a collection of festive cards, letters, gift tags,
Send a colorful and personal Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or Happy New Year email. Here’s a quick design you can do in Outlook from the resources and settings you already have. As usual with Office-Watch.com, we’ll explain our choices so you can adapt them to your preferences. Keep in mind
There are many red and white Santa hats that you can quickly add to any photo using Word, Outlook, PowerPoint or any Microsoft Office app. I’ll explain where to get some Santa hats and how to add them to a picture. A Santa Hat can add a little festive fun
Type the Airplane ✈ symbol, icon, emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Airplane ✈ symbol is often used for signs, directions or an itinerary, possibly in combination with symbols for other transport like train, car, walking. For more ‘airplane’
RGBA color codes are an extension of the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color system which you can use in modern Microsoft Office with a little trickery. There’s an annoying difference (reversal) in settings on Office for Windows vs other Microsoft services and Office for Mac. RGB colors have been around
You’re not stuck with the Microsoft automatic settings when inserting a new shape. Change the defaults to whatever you like for faster shape formatting in Office; Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. When you Insert | Shape, something like this probably appears. Blue fill, 1pt black single line outline, no effects
If you don’t like the large Office Backstage pane, the older and more powerful Open and Save dialog boxes are still available via shortcuts or changing a Microsoft Office setting. Microsoft has spent a lot of time and effort changing the Word, Excel and PowerPoint File panes to add more
Pantone has announced their “Color of the Year” for 2023 is “Viva Magenta” and, as usual, we’ll explain how to use that exact color in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. And we’ll look at the purple prose that’s become a hallmark of Pantone’s annual promotion. The color of 2023 is
Microsoft Office rules might let two users or more use the same copy of Office on a computer. It depends on which type of Office you have on a Windows or Mac computer. Office can work for multiple separate users on the one computer. Most commonly, there are separate Windows
Outlook profiles is one of the most important but least known parts of the program. Profiles can be very useful, sometimes essential to getting Microsoft Outlook working. An Outlook profile is a group of settings for connecting to the email server, and where to store the emails and other data.
Outlook for Windows doesn’t have a direct way to rename an Outlook Profile but it’s still possible. Outlook for Mac, on the other hand, can rename a profile from the Manage Profiles list. Properly label a Profile instead of using the one or two word names Microsoft defaults to. This
There’s a simple trick to ensure that an email is real, not a phishing trick to get your personal information. But Microsoft makes it easy for phishing attacks to pretend that are the real thing.. Hover over a link in an Outlook email to see the real url that you’ll
If you’re having trouble with Office for Windows, try these tips first. They might fix the problem or help narrow down the cause. You’ll often get these suggestions from Microsoft Support or forums. They are things to try before asking for help with a Microsoft Office problem for two reasons:
Choose from two ways to display event notifications or reminders in Outlook for Mac. Either familiar Outlook display or integrated with macOS Notifications. There’s a catch which Microsoft buries in their fine print. You have to use the ‘New Outlook 365 for Mac’ which is still very much a crippled
Outlook provides you with many printing options to put your calendar onto real, physical paper or save to PDF. Print and customize your calendar information, be it your daily schedules, weekly schedules or monthly plans. It also allows you to print specific dates you want to. It might seem ‘old
Here’s how to quickly print a blank calendar from Outlook with no appointments, notes etc – monthly, weekly or a single day. Use a blank printout to roughly plan a week or month in a way not possible in Outlook. Or save the printout to a PDF that you can
Why does the same picture appear rotated sideways or flipped in Outlook for Windows/Mac but right side up elsewhere? It’s an image annoyance in older versions of Microsoft Outlook which we’ll explain. Outlook for Windows or Mac lets you preview a picture by clicking on the attachment icon but sometimes
Here’s how to keep track of your 2022 World Cup football team and when the live broadcasts will be in your time zone – all by adding a calendar to show in Microsoft Outlook for Mac, iPhone or iPad. Here’s all the 2022 World Cup fixtures in Outlook, on the
Don’t miss a match in the 2022 FIFA World Cup (soccer) in Qatar. Here’s how to keep track of your team and when the live broadcast will be in your time zone – all by adding a calendar to Microsoft Outlook. Where to get reliable match details and add them
Here’s some Outlook tricks to help planning for the Soccer World Cup or any other event. (Obviously, we’re joking about ‘normal’ people😄. Our football ⚽ loving friends are sure they are normal and pity humans with no interest in the round-ball game.) We’ve already looked at how to import a
There are unanswered questions about Microsoft’s ‘move’ of Outlook.com attachments to OneDrive storage. Microsoft is being quite ‘opaque’ about the details of the change. On 1 Feb 2023 the space used by attachments in an Outlook.com mailbox will be counted against the OneDrive space quota not the mailbox limit. That’s
If you look in the Outlook desktop for Windows data folder, you might see a .NST file as well as the usual .OST and .PST data files. Office Watch explains what a .NST file is, should you do a backup and whether it’s safe to delete. An .NST file is
