The inverted or Spanish exclamation mark ¡ is available in Microsoft Word, regardless of language setting. There’s even an in-built shortcut. ¡ is most commonly used in Spanish for the start of an exclaiming sentence. As far back as the 1660’s there have been attempts to introduce ¡ inverted exclamation
PowerPoint presentations don’t have to be full-screen, that’s the default and normal way to show a deck, but a window option is also there. A windowed presentation lets you display the slides in other software like virtual cameras or desktop capture. Go to Slide Show | Setup Slide show and
One of the many small, but annoying, limitations in Office for Mac is the Insert Symbol feature. In Word for Windows it’s quite developed with a list of recently used characters: Or open up the main dialog to scroll through many more symbols or jump to exactly the one you
How to view a .msg file in either Windows or Mac. .MSG are Outlook for Windows message files which aren’t supported on Outlook for Mac, let alone Outlook mobile or in a browser. We’ve already explained about Outlook .msg files and why they are NOT recommended. In short .msg files
Viewing an .MSG file in either Windows or Mac isn’t always easy or even possible. We’ll explain what a .msg file is and why to avoid .msg in favor of better ways to share Outlook information. What is a .msg file? .MSG files is the “Outlook Message Format” are made
We already talked about the Microsoft Word ‘Shrink One Page‘ feature and its limitations. Here’s suggestions for how to move a few orphaned lines from the top of a page in more subtle and effective ways. Obviously, every document is different so the tricks you use depend on the situation.
The Shrink to Fit or Shrink One Page option hiding in Microsoft Word might solve a common problem. Making a document that’s using part of an extra page (an ‘orphan’), fit into a single page or one less page. Shrink One Page or Shrink to Fit was added to Word
Reduce the number of pages in a Microsoft Word document and save paper, one option is to make the page margins narrower. Do that with a single click and change back to normal margins with another click. Narrower margins can make a surprisingly large difference to the number of pages.
Tucked away on the far-right of Microsoft Word’s Table Design tab is the Border Painter, a useful little tool to let you copy existing cell borders to other parts of a table. Border Painter saves the trouble of manually changing the table or cell border settings. Instead, just copy an
When it comes to inserting a background image into the Microsoft Word table, it’s possible with a little trickery. It’s not ideal but quite easy. We’ll show you how to insert a picture background into a Word table. You’ll need to be aware that it can likely go wrong when
Office for Windows comes in two flavors called Click to Run (CtR) or MSI here’s how to tell which one you have and why it, sometimes, matters. We’ll also explain the two terms. Which Office install you have (Click-to-Run or MSI) should not matter but occasionally a support page or
Microsoft Word’s language tools are more than just red or blue squiggly lines. There’s help to choose alternative words, alternate languages, check and improve grammar, hyphenate documents and even test the document for readability. You may think you know all about the language tools, but Word always has a few
Set Picture as Background in OneNote feature is a handy feature for those looking to fill in forms or wish to draw and highlight on top of images pasted into their OneNote page. It’s now available in the Web version of OneNote as well as OneNote for Windows/Mac. How to
Add the Smiling (grinning) Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat 😅 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Smiling (or grinning) Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat 😅 emoji is normally used to express a close call, or nerves
Outlook for Windows has a broken search feature, again, for some mailboxes. The problem is seemingly caused by faulty Window 11 update. The problem is with the Windows Indexing Service which creates an index of files, documents and contents of Outlook data files (PST or OST) for quick search results.
Insert the Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes 😁 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes 😁 emoji is used to express joyfulness, excitement, or happiness. It’s similar to Grinning Face 😀 but with different eyes that are meant
How to type the words Resumé or Resume in Microsoft Word or Outlook plus some problems and software anomalies that arise. This article is an example of what happens at Office-Watch.com. A seemingly simple question like “How to type Resumé instead of Resume “ uncovers various strange things in Microsoft
How to make document comments and markup appear in a PDF version of a Word document plus some options available to control what appears in the PDF copy. Modern Word documents can contain a history of the changes made, especially in a shared/collaborative document. There’s also comments made by people
Add a bit of zing to your document, Word has a fun little feature that allows you to add color gradients or rainbow effects to your text, the background of a text box or inside an Office shape. The rainbow effect is a bit gaudy but demonstrates the possibilities of
Microsoft once published a list of “Top Grammar Mistakes” in Microsoft Word, but what’s really going on with that list and the technology behind it? Unlike others, we’re not content just to copy Microsoft’s 2017 list. We’ll show how the grammar checks really work in the latest Word. One of
There are two keyboard shortcuts to highlight text in Word, for some reason Microsoft has hidden the main one and the alternative has an annoying inconsistency. All the regular Office shortcuts should be in the tooltip label that appears when the mouse is hovered over a button. But the Highlight
Use the ListNum field in Word to insert sequential numbers, letters or legal numbering anywhere in a document. ListNum is the way to number or order items in ways not possible with the standard numbered or multi-level listing features. Just for starters, use ListNum to number things within a paragraph,
Officially a Gauge, dial or speedometer chart isn’t available in Excel. It’s a glaring omission from the in-built Excel charts but happily, it’s still possible with a little Excel trickery explained in this article. A “speedo” (Aussie slang), dial or gauge chart is made with a combination of Excel’s Doughnut
Add the Grinning Face with Big eyes aka Smiling Face with Open Mouth 😃 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. “Smiling Face with Open Mouth” is the official Unicode name for the 😃 emoji. It’s commonly labelled Grinning Face with
