If you have ever inserted a picture into Microsoft Word and found it stubbornly stuck in the wrong place, you’re not doing anything wrong. Word’s default image setting, “In Line with Text,” treats every picture like a giant letter in your text. The fix that with a single change to Square wrapping. Once you do […]
Need to add a gender symbol to a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or Outlook email? Microsoft Office supports all three main gender symbols: Male ♂, Female ♀ , and the combined symbol ⚥ . Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Whether you are labeling a form, a chart, or a scientific table, […]
The “Message body includes” rule in Microsoft Outlook sounds like exactly what you need to filter emails by their content. But it has a critical limitation: it only scans the first portion of the visible text in an email, not the entire message. That means any keyword buried below the opening paragraphs, hidden in a […]
A faulty Windows 11 update released on March 10, 2026 broke sign-ins for Teams Free and what Microsoft called “other apps”. Those “other apps” included Microsoft Word, Excel, OneDrive and Edge! If you use a personal Microsoft account and got a fake “no internet” error when trying to open Office apps, even though your connection […]
Markdown is a plain text formatting system that lets you write **bold**, # headings, and bullet lists using just your keyboard, no toolbar clicking required. Created in 2004, it has quietly become the common language between humans and AI tools as well as a ‘distraction free’ way to write. We’ll explain what Markdown is, how […]
