Microsoft declared Office 2016 dead on 14 October 2025, then quietly released 36 security patches for it anyway. The catch is that those fixes only reach MSI installations of Office 2016, not the Click-to-Run version most home and small business customers have. Microsoft declared Office 2016 dead on 14 October 2025, on the same day […]
Large Excel worksheets punish you for a moment of inattention. Your eye drifts one row, you type a score or a price into the wrong cell, and nobody notices for weeks. Excel can fix that by highlighting the row and column of whatever cell you click on, so the right cell is always obvious. It […]
Change the font on one paragraph in Microsoft Word and watch the rest of the document change with it. That is ‘Automatically update’, a checkbox hiding in every Word style’s Modify Style box. It is off for most styles, but when it is on, Word rewrites the style itself every time you reformat a paragraph, […]
Excel Flash Fill is one of the fastest ways to split, join and reformat text in Microsoft Excel without writing a single formula. Type one or two examples of the result you want and Excel spots the pattern, then fills the rest of the column automatically. It works on Windows and Mac in Excel 2013 […]
Wondering when your version of Microsoft Office stops getting security updates? This is the plain English Microsoft Office support end dates checklist, kept current for 2026. Microsoft 365, Office 2024, Office 2021 and every older release run out of security and bug fixes on different dates, and once that day passes, any newly discovered flaw […]
