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 until late 2025 however Microsoft […]
Here’s 11 witch graphics you’re welcome to use for Halloween. We made them with Dall-E while testing it’s ability to insert text into a graphic. Dall-E 3 adds text fairly well though sometimes it gets the spelling wrong. Microsoft Designer’s current ‘Generate Image’ feature can’t handle text at all. Instead of deleting our Halloween themed […]
Selecting the exact color from a sample on the screen is best done with one of the PowerToys for Windows 11 and Windows 10 – Color Picker. Unlike the color selector in Office, the PowerToy Color Picker can choose from any visible part of the screen with a keyboard shortcut. Color Picker is just one […]
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 different ways and more. All […]
Here’s all the match colors, color picking or color grab tools in Microsoft Office for Windows or Windows itself. While Office for Mac users have it a lot easier with one central ‘eyedropper’ to choose a color from the screen. Naming the color picking tool isn’t consistent in Microsoft Office, it’s called an Eyedropper in […]
