Let’s look at the good or at least interesting parts of the New Outlook that Microsoft are calling ‘new’. As we’ll explain, Loop Components, fast @document links, My Day, Board views, RSVP options, pinned messages and Sweep aren’t really new. We’ve already noted the severe limitations in New Outlook, core
Microsoft has released a new Outlook for Windows which is so limited that we feel it’s necessary to warn people about trying to use it. Beware! Even for Insiders on the ‘beta’ channel this new Outlook is no replacement for the real Windows version of Outlook – not even close.
Add the Duck 🦆 emoji into Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Duck 🦆 emoji represents the quacky bird with webbed feet. The emoji is usually depicted as a Mallard. Sometimes used as a substitute for the f-word, because of iPhone’s tendency
A simple question – what characters can you put in an email address? Like many things to do with the Internet the answer isn’t as simple or direct as you might think. We’ll look at what makes a valid email address, both in theory and in practice. A simple question
Does Office 2021 or Office 2019 insist on a Microsoft account Sign-In (login) to use the software and edit documents? We’ve done some tests to check and we’ll explain the details too. It’s a good question. Microsoft 365 software does require a Microsoft account login but what about the ‘perpetual
Office apps in a browser have caught up with an important feature in Office 365 for Windows – quick account switching is now available. Almost three years ago, Microsoft added quick account switching to Office 365 for Windows. You can save logins to several Microsoft 365 accounts; work, school, home
Type the Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes 😸 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes 😸 emoji is a variant of the grinning face emoji or the cat face emoji, which is yellow on most
There are a couple of email preview options in Outlook. These include the Message Preview and using the Reading Pane (once called the Preview Pane). We’ll explain them in detail including how to turn these features on and off plus viewing attachments in the Reading Pane. Message Preview Message Preview
If Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) is misbehaving, try the Repair option. If that’s also causing trouble, there’s a hidden command prompt option. For any ‘Click to Run’ installations of Office for Windows (mostly Microsoft 365, Office 2019) there are Repair options available to fix common problems. Among these
How to insert the Rainbow 🌈 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Rainbow 🌈 emoji depicts a colorful arc of a rainbow, usually used to express positivity, hope, good fortune. The rainbow flag was designed and has been adopted by
Not only has Microsoft just added 25 more languages to the Dictation feature of Microsoft Office 365, they’ve also promoted six languages from ‘Preview’ to full dictation status. Microsoft has been unusually quiet about all the improvements in Dictation, focusing on the new languages while not even mentioning that six
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
