Word for Windows and Mac can now make a link that opens a document at an exact paragraph, not just at page one. Select any text in a document saved to OneDrive or SharePoint, right click, and choose Copy Link to Location. It is a real time saver for long contracts, specs and policy documents. […]
Microsoft is deleting Word’s Similarity Checker, the plagiarism check built into the Editor pane, on October 3, 2026. That is three weeks away and there is no replacement. If you have a document with similarity results you still care about, open it and insert the citations now, because the flagged passages and their source links […]
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 […]
