Does Office 2021 or Office 2019 insist on a Microsoft account Sign-In (login) to use the software and edit documents? We’ve done some tests to check and we’ll explain the details too. It’s a good question. Microsoft 365 software does require a Microsoft account login but what about the ‘perpetual
Office apps in a browser have caught up with an important feature in Office 365 for Windows – quick account switching is now available. Almost three years ago, Microsoft added quick account switching to Office 365 for Windows. You can save logins to several Microsoft 365 accounts; work, school, home
Like Word, PowerPoint and Excel also have options to add borders to pictures to add that extra oomph to your work. Users can choose between fairly simple borders or add some further complex, fancy styles to their images. If all this seems very familiar, it’s because the same picture tools
Type the Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes 😸 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes 😸 emoji is a variant of the grinning face emoji or the cat face emoji, which is yellow on most
The Windows Emoji Panel has its problems which are amply demonstrated by a common symbol that’s hiding in the long symbol lists – the Pi symbol 𝜋 . We’ll explain where it’s hiding and generally grumble about this part of Windows 11 and 10. The Emoji Panel is in Windows
There’s a small but important point about Microsoft Word with Footnotes and Endnotes. It’s so important we’ve made this separate little article about copying or moving. The footnote or endnote is stored in that little superscript character in the document text. Copy, move or delete that superscript character and the
If Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) is misbehaving, try the Repair option. If that’s also causing trouble, there’s a hidden command prompt option. For any ‘Click to Run’ installations of Office for Windows (mostly Microsoft 365, Office 2019) there are Repair options available to fix common problems. Among these
In Microsoft Word, circling around text can place emphasis or enhance the text appearance. There are a few methods you can choose in Word documents and you’re not limited to circles. We’ll show how to add a simple circle like this, plus a lot more. Add shape to document Go
How to insert the Rainbow 🌈 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Rainbow 🌈 emoji depicts a colorful arc of a rainbow, usually used to express positivity, hope, good fortune. The rainbow flag was designed and has been adopted by
Not only has Microsoft just added 25 more languages to the Dictation feature of Microsoft Office 365, they’ve also promoted six languages from ‘Preview’ to full dictation status. Microsoft has been unusually quiet about all the improvements in Dictation, focusing on the new languages while not even mentioning that six
Here’s how to start page numbering at any point in a Word document. There’s no rule which says that visible page numbering has to start with Page 1, there are many situations where the first page in Word isn’t ‘Page 1’ as labelled in the header or footer. Some opening
Type the OK Hand sign 👌 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. OK Hand sign 👌 emoji is mostly used to symbolize approval, agreement, all that is well but there are other meanings. Scuba Divers use 👌 hand sign to
The dread Clippy, the paperclip with eyes, is still hiding in Windows and Office. The Windows 11 emoji panel and Segoe UI Emoji font have Clippy instead of a plain old paperclip that other apps use. Use the Emoji Panel in Windows 11 (Win + . ) and search for
LucidChart is a very nice diagramming and flowchart tool which is integrated with Microsoft Office for Windows or Mac. Office has diagram tools via Insert | Shapes but they aren’t very elegant. They serve for simple uses but not a lot more. LucidChart is better than the inbuilt Office diagram
The Shapes feature in Microsoft Office looks the same in all the major Office apps but it’s not. The important connectors feature, essential for flowcharts, is obvious Word or Outlook but works automatically in Excel, Publisher and PowerPoint. Update: We’ve updated this article after some clever readers reminded us of
Add some Passover images and icons to your documents, slides or emails from right inside Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel. If you know where to look there are images from the Jewish tradition related to Seder, Matzah and Menorah among many, Icons The SVG Icons collection (Insert | Illustrations |
How to insert the Cat Face 🐱 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Cat Face 🐱 emoji is a variant of the grinning face emoji, usually depicted as yellow on all platforms. How Cat Face 🐱 looks in different fonts.
There’s a simple way to copy a screen image into Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook or OneNote. Word, PowerPoint and other Office apps for Windows (Office 2010 and later) has a Screenshot option to paste an image from any open program window into a document or email. Go to the Insert tab of
All about the \# formatting switch in Word field codes lets you change the look of numbers in many different ways. Many examples plus a guide to the formatting codes. Use these options with Word fields that return a number like SEQ, REF, PAGE, SECTION, SECTIONPAGES, AUTONUM, EDITTIME, FILESIZE and
How to insert the Dog Face 🐶 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Aside from the obvious the Dog Face 🐶 emoji can used as a variant of the Grinning smiley face emoji. How Dog Face 🐶 looks in
Changing the case upper/lower for text through all of a Word document is easy because the default Find / Replace settings don’t need changing. We’ve already talked about the manual Change Case options in Word, now we’ll move onto bulk changes. Sometimes the spelling of a product or brand has
Change Case options in Word, like many Word features goes beyond the obvious choices from the basic shortcut. There’s up to five choices on the ribbon with a keyboard shortcut to reach it. Alter the upper/lower case of words, phrases or more. ‘change case’ can become ‘Change Case’ or ‘CHANGE
Replacing images in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook is a lot easier using the ‘Change Picture’ option, especially now you can change to insert an image on your clipboard. We’ll show you a step by step on how to do it. There might not be one simple keyboard shortcut, but
Ever been confused by the \* formatting options in Word field codes? You’re not alone, believe me. Here’s a complete guide with the \* codes and examples of how they appear. In this article we’ll look at the named formatting codes which start with \* like \* Arabic and \*
