How to have email signatures in Outlook for all the different roles in your life. Most of us wear different ‘hats’ – a family member, friend, person, employee or volunteer. Each of those ‘hats’ can have a different Outlook email signature. Which Outlook signature you use depends on the situation
Use these essential keyboard shortcuts to make best use of the Selection pane in Microsoft Office. Alt + F10 Open Selection Pane F6 Move the keyboard focus through the major regions until reaches the Selection Pane Tab Navigate by keyboard through the buttons in the pane and then into the
Here’s how roaming email signatures work (supposedly) in Outlook 365, Outlook 2021 and 2019 for Windows including the traps and pitfalls for the unwary. What is a roaming Signature? For most of Outlook’s history, Email Signatures were saved on each computer/device only. If you have multiple computers with Outlook, you
Personalize emails in style with signatures on your emails in Outlook 2016 back to Outlook 2007 for Windows. Make one or more signatures for each mail account. Outlook signatures are a wonderful way to personalize emails. Outlook Signatures are blocks of text or graphics that appear at the end of
In 2024 there’ll be a good addition to some versions of Outlook called ‘Follow’ but it’s also bad news for everyone using the current Outlook for Windows. The addition is ‘Follow’ that will appear for invitations to Teams online meeting. Follow is slated for release in five months, March 2024
Insert the Tower 🗼 (Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower) emoji, symbol or stock photo into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The emoji is commonly called ‘Eiffel Tower’ in the west but it was originally intended to show the Tokyo Tower. That’s
ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can enhance your Office VBA code with comments and help. It or Copilot can analyze your code and generate explanations, tips, and examples to make it easier to read and debug One of the modern AI tricks is to help write and understand programming
Do you ever wish you could take back an email that you sent too soon or with a mistake? You’re in luck because Outlook lets you delay sending messages for a certain amount of time after you hit Send. It’s like having a second chance to prevent a mistake. We’ll
Microsoft has been boasting about a ‘Pin’ feature in ‘Outlook’ to highlight important messages that you don’t want to forget when it disappears down a long list of emails. This is how Pin works and which Outlooks have it. Pin moves the message to the top of the Inbox (Focused
Type the Trademark ™ TM symbol as text and icon into Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Trademark ™ TM symbol is, strictly speaking, called the Unregistered Trademark symbol. Its counterpart is the Registered Trademark ® Trademark in Word and Outlook The
How to insert the Registered Trade Mark ® symbol as text or icon into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Registered Trade Mark ® not to be confused with the Unregistered Trade Mark ™ symbol. Registered Trade Mark ® in Word and
As a quick example of what’s possible, here’s a quick look at some photo editing options in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook emails. Since it’s Christmas, we’ll use one of the famous Apollo 8 Earthrise images. We’ve already talked about how Apollo 8’s Earthrise, as we know it,
Outlook Data Files (PST and OST) are one of those things you don’t worry about when setting up Outlook for Windows. But as you use Outlook more, it’s important to understand what Microsoft is doing for backup and fixing / repair purposes. The main data files (.PST or .OST) are a
Outlook for Windows data files (PST or OST) start with a maximum size of 50GB but they can be much, much larger if necessary. Here’s how to do it as we make sense of Microsoft’s out-of-date advice. Outlook for Windows use PST and OST files to save email, calendar, contacts
Microsoft Office can make drawings with linked lines or arrows between shapes that automatically change if the shapes are moved. Here’s how Office connectors work and the tricks to make connecting shapes work better. A little known but really useful part of the Insert | Shapes is the ability to
Türkiye is now the preferred name for the country Turkey. Here’s how to easily type Türkiye with the umlaut in Microsoft Office, Word and Outlook on Windows or Mac. It’s also a good example of the limits or traps in Word’s Autocorrect. A common trick for a change of name
The Washington Post has a ten-tip etiquette guide to which we’ve added our Microsoft Office & Outlook specific suggestions. Check out Danielle Abril’s article at The Washington Post. Her recommendations are necessarily general so we’ll add more technical and specific comments for Office users. Consider not sending an email So
There’s a really useful Outlook (Windows and Mac) feature that Peter (our Grand Poo-bah or Editor in Chief) uses regularly even though it’s hidden away in Outlook menu: Resend. ‘Resend this message’ opens a new copy of a sent message with all the same details filled in (To, CC, Bcc,
Outlook has a ‘Recall Message’ option for messages already sent but is now not needed, been replaced or you’ve realized was a mistake however this feature isn’t all it’s supposed to be. This feature sends a second ‘recall’ request message either to delete the message or replace it. How this
Often you need to switch between windows of the same program, so there should be a quick keyboard shortcut to do that. Here are your options in Windows or Mac. Whether you’re moving between Word documents, Excel workbooks or PowerPoint decks or Outlook emails, the need is the same. You
Type the three main gender symbols Male ♂ Female ♀ or both ⚥ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The gender symbols have many uses, not just on bathroom doors <g>. How Male ♂ Female ♀ Both ⚥ appear in
Insert the Satellite 🛰 emoji or icon into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. How Satellite 🛰 looks in different fonts. In Windows fonts only Segoe UI Emoji and Segoe UI Symbol have the Satellite emoji. As usual the Apple version
Microsoft has stopped supporting connections from Office 2019 and Office 2016 to their Microsoft 365 online services. It’s another ‘passive aggressive’ move to get customers off older versions of Office and onto Microsoft 365. Both Office 2019 and Office 2016 will continue to be supported with bug and security fixes
Office for Mac has quite different and extensible color selection options for text, shapes, pages etc. that are the envy of Office for Windows. We’ll explain them all, eyedropper, swatch, color wheel or sliders, palettes and even pencils. Choose from the same range of colors as Windows, but in many
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