What you need to know about Copilot for Microsoft 365 which brings AI technology into Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Here’s how to get Copilot for Microsoft 365 and the secrets to getting it working. What is Copilot for Microsoft 365? Copilot for Microsoft 365 applies to Microsoft
There are two ways to try out paid Copilot for less money. If you’re not sure but want to try the enhanced AI features in Office there are a smart ways to get Copilot without dropping a lot of money in advance for unknown benefits. Let’s face it, Microsoft is
Many different ways to type or insert laundry care symbols, which appear on clothing labels, into Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Laundry care symbols can be for laundry area signs or for fun like this t-shirt. Or alternative symbols in a PowerPoint slide. All five symbols were black laundry care icons.
How to get and use the copyright free Mickey Mouse and other public domain creations in Microsoft Office. Add to Word documents or PowerPoint slides. There’s been a lot of stories about content that is now in the public domain, especially Mickey Mouse. That copyright expiry applies to the USA
Microsoft Office has many, many print calendars to choose from, if you know where to look. There’s a trick to choosing the right calendar for your needs, made by Word, Excel, Outlook or PowerPoint. Printing out calendars or adding them to documents/slides is possible in Microsoft Office though the selection
Each of the Outlook printed calendars has some options to improve what’s shown on the page. Task List, Upcoming appointments and blank note space can all be selected to suit you. If you want to define your calendar options you have to ‘click deep’ into what Microsoft calls ‘styles’ (no
Windows 11 and 10 has the Emoji Panel. What a pity that it totally sucks and is incredibly dumb. Emoji Panel is better than what we had before (nothing) but not by a lot. We’re talking about the Emoji Panel or ‘keyboard’ which appears in Windows 11/10 when you press
All about the Windows 10 Emoji Panel, a fast way to type emoji 😁, symbols §⁜✓, emoticons 🙂 and kaomoji (❁´◡`❁) into any Windows app, document, slide, email or message. This is how it appears in Windows 10. If you have Windows 11, the Emoji Panel works differently, see Get
The Windows 11 Emoji Panel is a quick way to type emoji 😁, symbols §⁜✓, emoticons :), kaomoji (❁´◡`❁) and even animated GIF’s into any Windows app, document, slide, email or message. We’re talking about the Emoji Panel or ‘keyboard’ which appears in Windows 11 when you press Win +
A scene from a famous UK sitcom could also be used as a unique and overly literate Christmas card. ‘Yes Minister’ is a famous UK sitcom set in the British Public Service and politics. Sir Humphrey Appleby (played to perfection by the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne) gave amazingly convoluted explanations
Five ways to add a Snowflake ❄ symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. There are three snowflake symbols plus two Office icons. Snowflake ❄ symbols are normally used to show, well, a snowflake or generally to indicate cold or
Microsoft is changing the way Word’s Read Mode and Outlook’s Reading Pane looks but it’s hard to know what they’re doing because there’s a lot of oversold hype but little detail. These changes were announced more than two weeks ago and still haven’t appeared on any of our test machines.
Pantone’s color of the year for 2024 is “Peach Fuzz”. You can use that exact color in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Designer using the Hex/RGB color code. And we’ll look at the flowery prose that’s become a hallmark of this annual promotion. The color of 2024 is … Peach
Google has more than 3,000 Icons available to add into Microsoft Office documents from either SVG files or a font. Material Symbols are a collection of small icons, much like the Icons available in modern Office. As SVG files they can be recolored and changed from their standard black line
Add the Croissant 🥐 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. I have to declare a personal interest in this article because the Croissant 🥐 is an essential part of my breakfast. No morning is complete without the “Three C’s”
Office for Windows and Mac has three special outline styles for the borders of shapes and text boxes. Called ‘Sketched’ or ‘Sketchy‘ because they have a hand-drawn line look. It’s a nice little addition to Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook. Let’s see how it works plus some details and limitations
Microsoft Office Icons and other SVG graphics can be improved a lot simply with Sketchy or Sketched lines. They turn an icon or graphic from something formal into a hand-drawn and casual look. Sketchy lines is the ‘hand-drawn’ line option available in Microsoft 365 for Windows or Mac plus Office
Outlook 365 for Windows can crash when sending email from a Outlook.com is more than usually embarrassing for Microsoft. The bug is only in the Current Channel (Preview) version 17029.20028 which is the version to everyone on that pre-release option. Other releases like Beta channel and the public release are
There’s (yet another) Outlook app available. Outlook Lite is a better ‘scaled down’ version of the Outlook Mobile app. Officially it’s only available in certain countries but we had no trouble installing Outlook Lite, so maybe you can try it too. Microsoft has deployed its full range of marketing buzzwords
If your Outlook roaming signatures have disappeared, there’s a few things to check first then recover them. Modern Outlook for Windows has roaming signatures but sometimes they don’t behave. See Roaming email signatures in Outlook 365, 2021, 2019 for how they are supposed to work and Outlook signatures and roaming
Signatures in Outlook have changed for Outlook 365, Outlook 2021 and Outlook 2019 but they have troubles, at least for Microsoft managed mailboxes (Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com). In January 2020, Microsoft promised to make email Signatures ‘roam’ meaning they would synchronise and appear on each version of Outlook using the
Where are Outlook email signatures stored and how to copy them to another computer. There’s no import/export option for Outlook email signatures so how can you move them to another computer? This page applies only to signatures saved to the local computer, not signatures for Microsoft hosted mailboxes see Roaming
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
