Vale Dennis Austin, one of the original creators of PowerPoint has died at the age of 76. Back in 1987 Mr Austin and Robert Gaskins developed ‘Presenter’ for the Mac with some then unique features. A “direct manipulation interface”, what we now call WYSIWYG and take for granted in modern apps. The idea of working […]
Inspect without color is one of the more interesting and useful Accessibility tools in PowerPoint 365. It shows a slide in ‘black and white’ or ‘greyscale’ which is useful for more than helping color blind people, Inspect without Color can help improve the readability and design of any slide. Inspect without color is designed to […]
An undocumented surprise for Office 2021 and Office 2019 customers. The new Aptos fonts are automatically installed in Office 2021/Office 2019 even though Microsoft insists they are for Microsoft 365 only. However, there’s a crucial difference and strange anomaly between how Aptos fonts work in Office 2021/2019 vs Microsoft 365. According to Microsoft the Aptos […]
Type the fun Eyes 👀 symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Eyes 👀 symbol / emoji is a bit of fun for documents and PowerPoint slides. How Eyes 👀 looks in different fonts. Eyes is available in symbols fonts like Segoe UI Emoji and Segoe […]
Microsoft 365 / Office 2021 Cloud Fonts are only available in Office programs … that’s the official line unless you know the trick to make the fonts available in other Windows or Mac apps Cloud Fonts can be selected and installed for Word 365/2021, Excel 365/2021, PowerPoint 365/2021, Outlook 365/2021 and Publisher 365/2021. You might […]
