Our readers and supporters can now download a free Excel workbook which imports the latest Tokyo Olympics medal tally into Excel. All you need is a recent Excel for Windows with Get & Transform – Excel 365, Excel 2019 or Excel 2016 for Windows. (Alas, not Excel for Mac). There’s a simple table of the […]
Sound Bible has some useful, free music and sound effects that can jazz up a PowerPoint presentation. There’s a collection of free audio clips (various rights limitations) from here. In WAV or MP3 format, both compatible with PowerPoint. Many of the text labels are deliberatly bland to avoid copyright disputes. For example Cowboy Theme is […]
Type the Om or Devanagari Om ॐ symbol in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The Om symbol is a divine sign that denotes the essence of absolute truth, Atman or consciousness. In Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The syllable is chanted either separately or before a spiritual recitation. The Om symbol is independent […]
The wildcard is an advanced finding feature that has some powerful options beyond the standard * and ? options for Word. What Word calls ‘wildcard’ is really Regular Expressions, or at least a version of RegEx. Beginning or end of a word The beginning of a word can be represented by the “less than” symbol […]
Using Strikethrough in Word seems straight forward but, like many things in Office, there’s extra tricks hiding away for double, long and short strikethrough. Why use Strikethough? Strikethrough has various uses. Perhaps most commonly to show a discounted price Was $100 now $99.99! Or to show that a change was made from the original: Turn left right at the corner. Or for a laugh: I thought […]
