Office 2021 is the personal and small business ‘perpetual licence’, non-subscription version of Microsoft Office. For Windows and Mac.
Office LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel) is the volume licence ‘perpetual licence’, non-subscription version of Microsoft Office for organizations, companies and governments. Also for Windows and Mac.
The features in Office 2021 and Office LTSC are very similar, if not the same.
Type the Pound Sterling £ currency symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. £ symbol is easy on a UK keyboard but for other keyboards there’s no specific key for Pound. Pound is used for British Pounds Sterling and also
Immersive Reader, as seen in Word and older versions of OneNote, is returning to the latest releases of OneNote It’s a worthwhile tool to use, designed for those with dysgraphia or dyslexia, but perfect as well for those wanting to improve their reading experience. Here we’ll be using OneNote for
Excel has an Accessibility Ribbon to help you make changes to ensure that worksheets are easier for people with disabilities to read and edit. For some time, there’s been a Check Accessibility feature on the Excel Review tab. That opens a side-pane with suggestions for improving the worksheet. Go to
“You say Kiev, I say Kyiv” for the capital of the Ukraine. How does Microsoft Word handle the different spellings and how to pronounce the name with Read Aloud. See also Ukraine flag & colors in Word, Excel or PowerPoint Is it Kiev or Kyiv? Kyiv is the Ukrainian spelling
It’s vexing that the numbering features in Word aren’t all in the one place. Instead they’re spread across different dialog boxes including “Adjust List Indents … ” and “Set Numbering Value…”. Those two bland names hide some useful Word tricks. Numbering can also be set as a style. The main
Word has at least seven in-built numbering for common uses in documents, some that you know and appear automatically with others hidden away and little understood. We’ve told you about Word Numbered List tricks and Hidden Numbering options in Word plus Faster Numbered and Multi-Level Level changes Headings have numbering options at
There’s more to making subtitles for a PowerPoint (or any) video. Converters from .srt subtitles, using Microsoft Transcribe or using online tools to make your own subtitles from scratch. Webvtt vs Srt files Webvtt files (used by PowerPoint) are similar to the standard .srt subtitle files (used by Windows Movies
Insert the Black Chess King ♚ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Black Chess King ♚symbol is useful for users that want to represent the chess piece as a symbol, rather than an image. Or perhaps as general symbol of
You can combine Excel cell formatting into a style, but not like in Word. Excel has Styles … truly it does. Word has a way to combine formatting attributes of a letter, word or paragraph into a single block with a name like ‘Heading 1’. Excel has a feature also
Slipped into the bottom of a long Microsoft announcement was news about which versions of Microsoft Office would not be supported on Windows 11. According to Microsoft, Office 2013 is not supported on Windows 11. With that little snippet of news, here’s the list of Office releases that ARE supported
Get the best quality images in a PDF file made from Microsoft Word for Windows by changing some simple settings. There are also options in Word for Mac, Excel and PowerPoint. Better quality images in the PDF file are possible, starting with Word’s settings for saving images within the document.
Accessibility Checker serves as a free tool that helps ensure that Office files are easy to understand by everyone. Use it to quickly fix common Office doc problems that can make your documents, sheets and slides harder to comprehend. It’s available for Microsoft 365, Office 2021/LTSC and Office 2019. Word,
There’s a curious trick which might let you print a PDF that’s causing printer errors. An Office Watcher started getting PDF’s which looked OK on the screen but produced errors when he tried to print out. Otherwise the printer worked fine so the problem seemed to be in the PDF
Jon has found a clever way to show words (singular, plural or zero) with many numbers in Excel using conditional formatting. We already shown you several ways to put singular or plural words against numbers in Excel – like 1 cookie or 3 cookies. At the end we noted how
Microsoft has recently added the ability to resize Embed content within OneNote Web. It was already available for the Desktop versions, but now it has been introduced to the OneNote browser based version too. Simply by inserting, pasting, or linking content right in your notes, you can embed a variety
There’s been an uptick in interest for coloring in pages, having the power to relieve anxiety and a form of mindfulness or just pass the time. No wonder Microsoft jumped on the bandwagon and provided a number of coloring-in templates for Word and PowerPoint. As you browse their template selection,
There’s a quick way to clone or duplicate an existing file in Windows 11 so you can make a new, similar document. Quite often a new document is based on an existing one, for example a fresh invoice for the same things each month. Or a proposal to a new
Why are the numbers on the numeric keypad are different from the number keys on the top row of the keyboard? How to use either set of number buttons in Microsoft Word. “I don’t understand why pressing a number on the main keyboard is different from the number pad (assuming
“I’m confused. In Outlook there are two choices for a UK/London time zone. UTC or London. Both are zero meridian (+00:00). What’s the difference and why isn’t an entry for GMT?” Oscar R, Missouri. The quick answer is to always choose the time zone entry that matches the city or
Here are the major marks Microsoft Word displays with the Show All option on. There’s common ones like Paragraph Mark, Tab and Space and lesser known such as optional hyphen and hidden text. Show All will also display the seven different types of break in Word. Paragraph Mark, the symbol is called a Pilcrow. It’s the symbol used for
If you are working on a Word document with complex formatting, sometimes you need to see the hidden characters and unseen workings. It helps figure out Word’s secrets or what’s going on when the layout doesn’t behave. That’s where ‘Show All’ becomes essential. Microsoft Word was designed to hide all
Email Read Receipts sound great but don’t often work these days. Articles like “How to tell if someone opened and read your email” aren’t telling the whole story. Here’s the reality behind the Outlook ‘Read Receipt’ feature and how it works across the Internet. The idea is to send an email
There are limited options for entering the current date and time into PowerPoint slides, notes and handouts. PowerPoint doesn’t have field codes like in Word, so Microsoft seems to have shoehorned in some field like features. Insert Date and Time in slide On the Insert Tab, right side there’s an
The COUNTIF worksheet function in Microsoft Excel has a simple format that provides a quick and easy way to count the number of times a certain condition is met in a data set. By Kara Monroe That sounds imposing but it isn’t. Most likely you already use COUNT to count
