There are two different types of Microsoft Office you can buy retail and that difference makes hundreds of dollars difference you buying Office 2021 back to at least Office 2007. It can be hard to know which type of Microsoft Office you purchased – and it really matters to what
The word ‘grok’ is back in the news, thanks to Elon Musk. As long time Word users and classic science-fiction readers, we naturally wanted to see if Word’s spell check recognized the word. In other words, does Microsoft Word grok the word Grok? Grok is a word made up by
Insert the Tower 🗼 (Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower) emoji, symbol or stock photo into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The emoji is commonly called ‘Eiffel Tower’ in the west but it was originally intended to show the Tokyo Tower. That’s
ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can enhance your Office VBA code with comments and help. It or Copilot can analyze your code and generate explanations, tips, and examples to make it easier to read and debug One of the modern AI tricks is to help write and understand programming
Do you ever wish you could take back an email that you sent too soon or with a mistake? You’re in luck because Outlook lets you delay sending messages for a certain amount of time after you hit Send. It’s like having a second chance to prevent a mistake. We’ll
Type the Trademark ™ TM symbol as text and icon into Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Trademark ™ TM symbol is, strictly speaking, called the Unregistered Trademark symbol. Its counterpart is the Registered Trademark ® Trademark in Word and Outlook The
How to insert the Registered Trade Mark ® symbol as text or icon into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Registered Trade Mark ® not to be confused with the Unregistered Trade Mark ™ symbol. Registered Trade Mark ® in Word and
The Care of ℅ symbol can be typed into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Care of ℅ symbol is one of those useful symbols you’ll never see on a keyboard and have to go hunting for. ℅ is used on envelopes
As a quick example of what’s possible, here’s a quick look at some photo editing options in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook emails. Since it’s Christmas, we’ll use one of the famous Apollo 8 Earthrise images. We’ve already talked about how Apollo 8’s Earthrise, as we know it,
Better to stick with a stable, known Microsoft Office instead of monthly updates with new and changed features. That rational customer approach isn’t understood at Microsoft who push the regular Microsoft Office 365 changes on the assumption that it’s a universal good which suits all customers. Brian X Chen in
Updating Office or Windows isn’t an easy choice, you’re taking a risk no matter what you choose. Star Trek fans know about these ‘no win scenarios’ aka ‘Kobayashi Maru’ At Office-Watch.com we’re often asked what to do about updating and, frankly, it’s hard for us to give a simple answer.
Outlook for Windows data files (PST or OST) start with a maximum size of 50GB but they can be much, much larger if necessary. Here’s how to do it as we make sense of Microsoft’s out-of-date advice. Outlook for Windows use PST and OST files to save email, calendar, contacts
There’s a way for Microsoft Word to connect shapes with lines or arrows that remain connected when moved. We’ll explain the trick and why it’s needed in Word and Outlook but not other Office apps. As we’ve already explained, in Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher, you can connect shapes with lines
Microsoft Office can make drawings with linked lines or arrows between shapes that automatically change if the shapes are moved. Here’s how Office connectors work and the tricks to make connecting shapes work better. A little known but really useful part of the Insert | Shapes is the ability to
Türkiye is now the preferred name for the country Turkey. Here’s how to easily type Türkiye with the umlaut in Microsoft Office, Word and Outlook on Windows or Mac. It’s also a good example of the limits or traps in Word’s Autocorrect. A common trick for a change of name
Type the Satellite Antenna 📡 symbol/emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Satellite Antenna or Dish 📡 symbol can be used for modern television, radio, GPS or wireless broadcasting generally. Can be used with the Satellite 🛰 emoji or icon.
The Washington Post has a ten-tip etiquette guide to which we’ve added our Microsoft Office & Outlook specific suggestions. Check out Danielle Abril’s article at The Washington Post. Her recommendations are necessarily general so we’ll add more technical and specific comments for Office users. Consider not sending an email So
There’s a really useful Outlook (Windows and Mac) feature that Peter (our Grand Poo-bah or Editor in Chief) uses regularly even though it’s hidden away in Outlook menu: Resend. ‘Resend this message’ opens a new copy of a sent message with all the same details filled in (To, CC, Bcc,
Microsoft noted the 40th anniversary of Microsoft Word with a typically glossy and highly selective history plus some vague platitudes about the future of Word. Their graphic does show how far Word has come from its early days. Of course, plenty has been skipped over in this sanitized history. Like
Often you need to switch between windows of the same program, so there should be a quick keyboard shortcut to do that. Here are your options in Windows or Mac. Whether you’re moving between Word documents, Excel workbooks or PowerPoint decks or Outlook emails, the need is the same. You
Insert the Satellite 🛰 emoji or icon into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. How Satellite 🛰 looks in different fonts. In Windows fonts only Segoe UI Emoji and Segoe UI Symbol have the Satellite emoji. As usual the Apple version
Word lists have more power and, let’s face it, confusion hiding under the menus. How to start a new list, continue a previous list, reset the numbering and trying to figure out how a list numbering has been messed up. Many questions arising from our article on Word Autonumbering. Many
There’s a maximum of nine levels available in Word multi-level numbering. That’s enough for the seven dwarves plus two more. There’s a way to get more than nine levels. A Multilevel list setup shows 9 levels. Need more? Perhaps create a separate multilevel list with custom numbering starting at 10?
Word multi-level lists can get messed up with ‘wrong’ numbering appearing for no obvious reason. Here’s why it can happen, troubleshooting options and how to fix it. It’s too easy to mess up a seemingly normal multi-level list in Word. Options like ‘Start new list’ and ‘Continue from previous list’
