Thereās a faster way to clone or reuse slides from existing PowerPoint presentations. Reuse Slides lets you pick a slide and copy it in a flash. Which sounds great unless youāre an unlucky person who hits a useless and unhelpful Microsoft error message. Reuse Slides is mostly promoted as a
Wordās Readability check is a great extension to the familiar Microsoft Word Spelling & Grammar. Word can check the complexity of your writing and give you an idea of whether your text will be readable, meaning understood, by your target audience. We’ll show you how to see Word’s Readability Statistics,
Outlook provides you with many printing options to put your calendar onto real, physical paper or save to PDF. Print and customize your calendar information, be it your daily schedules, weekly schedules or monthly plans. It also allows you to print specific dates you want to. It might seem ‘old
Here’s how to quickly print a blank calendar from Outlook with no appointments, notes etc – monthly, weekly or a single day. Use a blank printout to roughly plan a week or month in a way not possible in Outlook. Or save the printout to a PDF that you can
Why does the same picture appear rotated sideways or flipped in Outlook for Windows/Mac but right side up elsewhere? It’s an image annoyance in older versions of Microsoft Outlook which we’ll explain. Outlook for Windows or Mac lets you preview a picture by clicking on the attachment icon but sometimes
Scaling Text in Word isĀ another Microsoft Word text effect to make the text larger or smaller.Ā Specifically, the ScaleĀ option stretches or contracts the horizontal width of the charactersĀ and spaces between.Ā Hereās an example of normal, 150% and 66% scaling. To change the scaling of text in Word, select the text you want to
Chemistry add-in for Word or Chem4Word is a way to “to insert and modify chemical information, such as labels, formulas and 2-D depictions, from within Microsoft Office Word” and works with Word for Windows including Word 365, Word 2021, 2019 and earlier. The Chemistry add-in started as a Microsoft Research
Hereās how to keep track of your 2022 World Cup football team and when the live broadcasts will be in your time zone ā all by adding a calendar to show in Microsoft Outlook for Mac, iPhone or iPad. Hereās all the 2022 World Cup fixtures in Outlook, on the
Donāt miss a match in the 2022 FIFA World Cup (soccer) in Qatar. Hereās how to keep track of your team and when the live broadcast will be in your time zone ā all by adding a calendar to Microsoft Outlook. Where to get reliable match details and add them
Need a Christmas emoji or symbol? Here’s a quick and searchable list of all the Xmas emoji for documents, sheets, slides, emails or messages that you can use or copy. This list has all the Christmas related emoji we can think of, the broadest sense both secular and religious. These
Here’s some Outlook tricks to help planning for the Soccer World Cup or any other event. (Obviously, we’re joking about ‘normal’ peopleš. Our football ā½ loving friends are sure they are normal and pity humans with no interest in the round-ball game.) We’ve already looked at how to import a
There are unanswered questions about Microsoftās āmoveā of Outlook.com attachments to OneDrive storage. Microsoft is being quite āopaqueā about the details of the change. On 1 Feb 2023 the space used by attachments in an Outlook.com mailbox will be counted against the OneDrive space quota not the mailbox limit.Ā Thatās
Microsoft Forms can export survey/quiz results to an Excel workbook, here’s how to do that easy and efficiently and the limitations that Microsoft hasn’t fixed for most customers. The current method of getting Microsoft Forms results into Excel isn’t very elegant. It doesn’t make use of Excel’s excellent data import
If you look in the Outlook desktop for Windows data folder, you might see a .NST file as well as the usual .OST and .PST data files. Office Watch explains what a .NST file is, should you do a backup and whether itās safe to delete. An .NST file is
You might see mentions of āOutlook Groupsā or even Groups appearing in your Outlook navigation pane.Ā What are Outlook Groups, Microsoft 365 Groups and what can you do with them? For many people, the first thing they know about Groups is when the name appears in their Outlook, either Outlook
Deep inside Microsoft Word’s (Windows/Mac) grammar checks are some detailed settings like one to look for contractions such as: Ā I’m, you’re, shouldn’t, couldn’t and haven’t. These contractions are normal and accepted by Word 2016 Windows/Mac in it’s standard settings but you can change that. Formal Language, Consider avoiding contractions You’ll
One of the āemergencyā options to remember is WordPad, which can open Word documents, available in modern Windows 11, 10, 8.1 and 7. Often overlooked, WordPad can be very useful. Itās always available when Windows is running even in the Safe mode. No extra install or setup needed. Itās on
It’s possible and practical to make ‘handwritten’ notes or edits direct on your Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents. Instead of printing them out and using a pen/pencil, do it on-screen with a digital pen. Here’s a real-world guide to how you can do it, leaving aside the hype and flashy
Two ways to put left and right aligned text on the same line in Microsoft Word.Ā Thereās the commonly used option and the less well-known choice. BONUS: putting left, center and right aligned text on one line. Weāll show how to make Left and Right aligned text looking like this.
Type the Facsimile sign or Fax symbol ā»Ā into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook.Ā Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. FAX ā» symbol is a single character with the letters FAX, normally used to prefix a telephone number in a letter heading or footer. For younger readers:
Occasionally OneNote pages or whole notebooks go missing ā¦ hereās eight places to try finding them again. Donāt Panic OneNote saves everything ā¦ it was designed that way from Day One. Itās unlikely that something has truly been erased. More likely that the page, section or notebook is hiding somewhere
Type the Hundred points šÆ emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. 100 points šÆ symbol is also known as ā100ā, āKeep it 100ā or āKeeping it realā. How 100 points šÆ looks in different fonts. Hereās some examples of how
Type the Face with Tears of joy šĀ emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook.Ā Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Face with Tears of joy šĀ emoji is one of the most popular, if not THE most commonly used emoji. Also known as Laughing Crying, Laughing Tears,
Microsoft Create is a new part of Microsoft 365 that will replace the existing Office templates site and more. Office Watch explains how to use the Create site now, the many categories available and whatās to come. Cut through all the usual Microsoft Hypeā¢ like āultimate creator launchpadā and the
