Microsoft is switching Text Predictions off by default in Word 365 and Outlook 365. If you rely on the gray suggested text that appears ahead of your cursor, it may simply stop showing up. The feature is not gone, just no longer automatic, and you can switch it back on in about ten seconds. Here […]
The UN has just picked a new favorite world map, and the Mercator projection most of us grew up with is out of favor. If your reports, slides or dashboards use a world map, the Equal Earth projection is now the one to reach for. Microsoft Office does not include it, but you can drop […]
Dragging one image on top of another almost never looks right. The moment the screen or frame in the background photo sits at an angle, the picture you drop on it looks pasted on. There is a better way built into Word, Excel and PowerPoint that takes about two minutes: draw a shape over the […]
Get a document formatted for the wrong paper size and Word gives you two very different ways out. One rescales the printout and leaves your document untouched. The other changes the document itself and can shift your margins, headers and images without warning. Which one you pick matters, so here is when to use each, […]
Ten Critical bugs fixed in Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday can be triggered just by previewing a file. No opening it, no macro warning, no “Enable Content” click. Selecting a message in Outlook’s Reading Pane or clicking a file once in File Explorer is enough to run an attacker’s code on an unpatched machine. That […]
