Type the OK Hand sign 👌 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. OK Hand sign 👌 emoji is mostly used to symbolize approval, agreement, all that is well but there are other meanings. Scuba Divers use 👌 hand sign to
The Shapes feature in Microsoft Office looks the same in all the major Office apps but it’s not. The important connectors feature, essential for flowcharts, is obvious Word or Outlook but works automatically in Excel, Publisher and PowerPoint. Update: We’ve updated this article after some clever readers reminded us of
How to insert the Cat Face 🐱 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Cat Face 🐱 emoji is a variant of the grinning face emoji, usually depicted as yellow on all platforms. How Cat Face 🐱 looks in different fonts.
There’s a simple way to copy a screen image into Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook or OneNote. Word, PowerPoint and other Office apps for Windows (Office 2010 and later) has a Screenshot option to paste an image from any open program window into a document or email. Go to the Insert tab of
Had you wondered what’s happening with the Outlook replacement: Project Monarch? Seems we won’t have to wait much longer to see a preview. Project Monarch is a Progressive Web App (PWA) that will run in your browser. It will have email, contacts, calendar and perhaps other ‘Outlook-like’ features. A Progressive Web
Replacing images in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook is a lot easier using the ‘Change Picture’ option, especially now you can change to insert an image on your clipboard. We’ll show you a step by step on how to do it. There might not be one simple keyboard shortcut, but
Type the White or outline Chess King ♔ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. White Chess King ♔ symbol is useful for users that want to represent the chess piece as a symbol, rather than an image. There’s also a
Word and Office have several down “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 pointing hand options in Unicode: Index – a pointing index finger with palm
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
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
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
Inserting an .ics iCalendar item into Outlook is typical Microsoft Office. Seemingly easy if you believe the simplistic ‘help’ from Redmond but a little more involved in practice. iCalendar .ics files are small text files which contain an appointment or event. It’s a common standard so they can be used
Type the Pound Sterling £ currency symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. £ symbol is easy on a UK keyboard but for other keyboards there’s no specific key for Pound. Pound is used for British Pounds Sterling and also
Samsung phones have a hidden service which is slowing down Microsoft Office apps including the mobile apps for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and the Office ‘all in one’ app. Inside some of the new S22 Galaxy smartphones is a Games Optimization Service, or GOS. Cynical techies know to be wary
Find and add the Ukraine flag or national colors into Office documents, Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then use some Office picture tools to enhance the image. Ukraine Flag Image There are many, many copies of the Ukraine flag available. We’ve opted for the Wikipedia site because it has an SVG scalable version (preferred)
Insert the Black Chess King ♚ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Black Chess King ♚symbol is useful for users that want to represent the chess piece as a symbol, rather than an image. Or perhaps as general symbol of
Accessibility Checker serves as a free tool that helps ensure that Office files are easy to understand by everyone. Use it to quickly fix common Office doc problems that can make your documents, sheets and slides harder to comprehend. It’s available for Microsoft 365, Office 2021/LTSC and Office 2019. Word,
The Outlook mobile app from Microsoft is ending its support for older versions of the Android operating system. Office Watch explains who is affected, how and when. All these changes apply to devices with Android 7.1 and previous. That’s a quite elderly version of Android (by tech standards). The current
“I’m confused. In Outlook there are two choices for a UK/London time zone. UTC or London. Both are zero meridian (+00:00). What’s the difference and why isn’t an entry for GMT?” Oscar R, Missouri. The quick answer is to always choose the time zone entry that matches the city or
Email Read Receipts sound great but don’t often work these days. Articles like “How to tell if someone opened and read your email” aren’t telling the whole story. Here’s the reality behind the Outlook ‘Read Receipt’ feature and how it works across the Internet. The idea is to send an email
Three ways to insert or import an EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) graphic into Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. There are two a ‘quick and dirty’ options and a way that allows some editing. Microsoft Office did support EPS files for many years but dropped them in 2017/2018 because the EPS format
There are four different ways to change an Office icon or SVG graphic in Microsoft 365, Office 2019 or Office 2021. The two official SVG edit methods in Microsoft Office with their in-built limitations or some choices before inserting into Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Within Office Limited SVG/Icon changes are
Some simple changes to SVG graphics can bypass some of the more annoying limits of SVG support in Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Office 2019/365. Here’s a simple SVG with three parts: the circle <circle> the rectangle <path id=”bar” …> letters are defined in other <path … > and <use
Like an image in an Microsoft Outlook email? Here’s how to save it to a separate picture file. Sometimes you get an email with a nice picture displayed in the message (as opposed to an attachment). You can ‘grab’ any image and save it to your computer. On most web
