Insert a Dagger † into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Dagger † symbol is used to indicate a footnote if an asterisk has been already used. Footnotes and Endnotes in Word Formatting Footnotes and Endnotes Dagger is a different look
Adding color gradient effects to your text, shapes and borders is a good way to give it a bit more zing to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or other Office docs. The gradient feature is quite sophisticated, with a wide range of options and adjustments available but not obvious. To add a
Our Year Planner Excel workbook download is just the start. Here are many suggestions for changes to improve or customize the download. Tips for changing the headings, overall look, change financial year, highlight public holidays, change the look of a day in the week, change weekend shading or day label.
How to add a calendar as quick reference to your desktop on Windows or Mac. It can be a yearly, monthly or weekly calendar, just like the old paper calendar / blotting paper on an office desktop in olden times (i.e. 20 years ago)! A handy place to put a
Outlook has had a Categories feature for a long time … here’s how you can use it and why. Categories let you group Outlook items (emails, contacts, calendar and tasks) into broad topic areas or subjects … all without moving from their original folders. They can be subjects that a
Excel has a Calendar Creator template which might work or might not. Why it doesn’t work is a little mystery but we have an alternative for our readers. The ‘Calendar Creator (any year’) template sounds great … a one-page year calendar. Find it from File | New then search for
Type the Lambda upper case Λ, and Lambda lower case λ symbols (aka Lamda) in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Lambda/Lamda (uppercase Λ / lowercase λ) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. The uppercase symbol has various uses, it is
The Delta upper case Δ or Delta lower case δ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Delta (uppercase Δ / lowercase δ) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. It’s the “d” sound in Modern and Ancient Greek. Delta
Looking for some Christmas images, pictures or graphics? Microsoft Office has some in-built Xmas options for the festive tide of Yule. Add these images into Word documents, Outlook emails, PowerPoint slides or even Excel worksheets. Unsubtle Hint: Christmas Cheer with Office has a collection of festive cards, letters, gift tags,
We take a look at a Christmas-themed font called Igloo, where to get it, and more, all compatible with Microsoft Office, Word etc for Windows or Mac One of my favorite fonts is the snow capped TrueType font usually called Igloo or Igloo Laser. A set of letters and numbers
Send a colorful and personal Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or Happy New Year email. Here’s a quick design you can do in Outlook from the resources and settings you already have. As usual with Office-Watch.com, we’ll explain our choices so you can adapt them to your preferences. Keep in mind
Type the Airplane ✈ symbol, icon, emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Airplane ✈ symbol is often used for signs, directions or an itinerary, possibly in combination with symbols for other transport like train, car, walking. For more ‘airplane’
Windows Movie Maker is a simple and free video editor from Microsoft that still works in modern Windows. Officially it’s no longer available but it’s still available if you know the magic spell. We’ve explained how to get the much-loved Office Picture Manager even though it’s been officially removed from
Hidden Text Printing in a Word document is possible but is more complex than it should be. Here’s how to change the setting quickly from the ribbon or change the print setting just for one print job. By default, the hidden text will not be printed, but you can choose
Two simple Word add-ons to put quotes before and after a block of text – either pasted from the clipboard or selecting some text already in the document. Your choice of ‘single’, “double”, smart or some other quotation marks. “For me and, I am sure, many other writer, quotes are
Find or change many web links in Word documents using the Replace command, here’s the two tricks – one is good and the other not so effective. For example, you might need to change the domain name due a corporate restructure or update links so they are secure (https) instead
You’re not stuck with the Microsoft automatic settings when inserting a new shape. Change the defaults to whatever you like for faster shape formatting in Office; Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. When you Insert | Shape, something like this probably appears. Blue fill, 1pt black single line outline, no effects
In late 2016, Microsoft removed the PowerPoint audio ‘Change Picture’ option from the right-click menu for the music icon and they show no interest in bringing the choice back. The feature hasn’t gone away, it’s just not on the right-click menu where it should be. The workaround is on the
Pantone has announced their “Color of the Year” for 2023 is “Viva Magenta” and, as usual, we’ll explain how to use that exact color in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. And we’ll look at the purple prose that’s become a hallmark of Pantone’s annual promotion. The color of 2023 is
In Microsoft Word you can use Find combined with your own actions and easily switch between the Find and editing. That’s great for situations where a simple Replace command isn’t enough. Find results show up in the left-hand pane or dialog box, you can move between find results and editing,
One major use for Find and Do in Microsoft Word is to find highlighted text and let you change them. Highlighted text is often used to mark parts of a draft that need more work. There’s always the risk that the final document will go out with highlighted, unfinished,
Microsoft Office rules might let two users or more use the same copy of Office on a computer. It depends on which type of Office you have on a Windows or Mac computer. Office can work for multiple separate users on the one computer. Most commonly, there are separate Windows
Outlook profiles is one of the most important but least known parts of the program. Profiles can be very useful, sometimes essential to getting Microsoft Outlook working. An Outlook profile is a group of settings for connecting to the email server, and where to store the emails and other data.
Outlook for Windows doesn’t have a direct way to rename an Outlook Profile but it’s still possible. Outlook for Mac, on the other hand, can rename a profile from the Manage Profiles list. Properly label a Profile instead of using the one or two word names Microsoft defaults to. This
