If you thought that all email addresses are the same, think again. There are five main types of email address and if you want to organize your email sensibly you should know the difference. All email addresses are formatted the same way @ but what isn’t obvious are the different
There are five main types of email address and if you want to organize your email sensibly you should know the difference. In this article we’ll talk about the Catch-All, Black Hole and Auto-Responders. Continuing our series on the different types of email addresses. We’ve already talked about mailboxes and
Word’s Advanced Find has many special codes to help locate or replace hidden or unusual things in a Word document. Here’s a complete and searchable list of all the ^ codes and what they are for Under Find | Advanced Find | More | Special there’s a list of special
Here’s a way to get a face or other image for a PowerPoint slide or Word document but not intrude on anyone’s privacy. Check out ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com The website employs artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to produce photos of people who do not exist. An
Type the Sampi Ϡ letter into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Sampi Ϡ symbol is occasionally used in Greek today. Its modern form, which resembles a slanting right cross-stroke with a longish curve, evolved during its use as a numeric symbol in Byzantine minuscule handwriting. Informally, its often replaced by lowercase
Microsoft has announced more changes to OneNote for Windows. Despite what you might have heard, it’s really a clarification of past promises rather than anything new. OneNote for Windows has been messed about for years with two separate programs operating side-by-side and Microsoft unable to decide which one to prefer.
Microsoft is pushing the Internet Explorer browser over a cliff but there’s a good but hidden reason why IE is worth keeping or get Edge’s IE Mode working. Both Edge and Google Chrome have an annoying feature that adds HTML formatting to the web page downloaded. That’s a problem if
Theta upper case Θ, Theta small upper case θ and Theta lower case ϑ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Theta (uppercase Θ or θ / lowercase ϑ) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet. The lowercase symbol represents many things, such as an unknown variable in trigonometry, or
Type the Koppa upper case Ϟ and Koppa lower case ϟ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Koppa (uppercase Ϟ / lowercase ϟ) is a letter used in the earlier forms of the Greek alphabet, it was originally used to
How to insert the Alt key ⎇ symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Alt key ⎇ symbol is a modifier key, used in a similar fashion to the Shift key. On a Mac, the same key is called Option.
Insert the Thinking Face 🤔 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Thinking Face 🤔 emoji has several other names; Thinker, Throwing Shade, Chin Thumb, puzzled and skeptic. How Thinking Face 🤔 looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of how Thinking Face 🤔 looks in common Office fonts. Thinking Face 🤔 codes These
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
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.
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 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
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.
TrimMean() function is a slightly different and useful measure than the regular Excel Average(). It’s still an average/mean but without the high and low, extreme or outlier values in the list. Average() (and its partners AverageA() and AverageIFS() use all the values in the array or list provided. TrimMean() excludes
How does Microsoft Word’s spell check go with the 2021 Words of the Champions list from the US annual spelling bee? Each year the Scripps National Spelling Bee releases a Words of the Champions study list to educators, featuring up to 800 new words. We grabbed a selection of the
Type the Weary / Distraught face 😩 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Weary / Distraught face 😩 emoji is also called Wailing, Frustrated or Sadness. How Weary / Distraught face 😩 looks in different fonts. Here’s some examples of
Microsoft Word seems to have two pairs of shortcuts that do the same thing – increase or decrease the font size. This is how they are different. The shortcuts are: Ctrl + Shift + < or Ctrl + Shift + > – which are also buttons on the Home tab.
The Office Watch “Shortcut of the Week” tips for Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint from 2005 in the one convenient place. Tip 1 – Outlook navigation The Outlook navigation shortcuts could be more intuitive but here they are: Switch to Mail CTRL+1 Switch to Calendar CTRL+2 Switch to Contacts CTRL+3 Switch
Office 2007 and later to Office 365 not only has keyboard shortcuts but in many ways they are better than previous versions of Microsoft Office. For the most part the shortcuts used in Office XP and Office 2003 still work in Office 2007 through 365 also – despite the very
We place all of the “Shortcut of the Week” tips from 2004 in the one convenient place. Tip 1 – Undo The Undo function has become especially important over the years as Microsoft puts more ‘intelligence’ into their products. Sometimes it ‘corrects’ your spelling or re-formats something you were quite
Another round of bug fixes for both Window and Office including an update to the PrintNightmare fix. PrintNightmare is a serious security breach found in all versions of Windows and Windows Server back to Windows 7. The original ‘out of band’ patch was flawed, stopping some USB printers completely. A
