Word and Office have several down “pointing hand” symbols available in some fonts. Here’s the Unicode options explained and shown with the codes and shortcuts to type them in Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook too. There are various pointing hand options in Unicode: Index – a pointing index finger with palm facing. Backhand Index – pointing […]
With a little Office formatting trickery, you can make a Twitter ‘message’ that looks like what you see on the Twitter web site or app to put in a Word document or PowerPoint slide. Use this trick to recreate a real Tweet that’s part of a document. Or as a fake or joke tweet as […]
There are disagreements about how to pronounce the acronym ‘GIF’ for the popular image format, even though there’s an authoritative answer. Even Microsoft Word is confused about how to say GIF with the Read Aloud feature. Stephen E. Wilhite, the developer of the Graphics Interchange Format or GIF passed away earlier this month. Obituary . […]
Add a background image to any page in a Word document instead of a solid color or pattern. Using a picture as the background for Word page isn’t as straight forward because the official or approved method doesn’t work very well. We’ll show you other Word features that work better (or at all). Most of […]
Insert the Eye of Horus 𓂀 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Eye of Horus 𓂀 is an Egyptian Hieroglyph symbolizing protection. According to Egyptian myth, Horus lost his left eye during his struggle with Seth, and it was restored by Hathor, symbolizing the process […]
