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.
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
Excel has an in-built feature to remove duplicates from a list but what if you want to delete both items if they are duplicated or more than two? Remove Duplicates Remove Duplicates is tucked away on the Data tab, Data Tools | Remove Duplicates. It will ensure that an Excel
The appearance of all your captions in Microsoft Word can be changed by modifying the style that is applied to them or selecting the text and formatting manually. See Adding Captions in Word Caption Style All captions use the ‘Caption’ style, so modifying that style will modify the format of all
Captions let you add autonumbered labels under most Word objects including pictures (figures), tables or equations. Captions can be combined into a list of all the figures/tables/equations in the document, along with their page numbers. As usual in Word, there are many options beyond the simple adding of captions and
Three ways to insert or import an EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) graphic into Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. There are two a ‘quick and dirty’ options and a way that allows some editing. Microsoft Office did support EPS files for many years but dropped them in 2017/2018 because the EPS format
There are four different ways to change an Office icon or SVG graphic in Microsoft 365, Office 2019 or Office 2021. The two official SVG edit methods in Microsoft Office with their in-built limitations or some choices before inserting into Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Within Office Limited SVG/Icon changes are
Draw with Touch is available for users with a touch-enabled device. Simply draw with your mouse, digital pen, or even your finger on your OneNote page. You might be familiar with Draw with Touch on OneNote for Windows desktop. Great news, this feature has recently been added to OneNote for
At long last, OneNote can sort the pages (tabs) either alphabetically or by date. Previously in OneNote, if you wanted to sort out your pages, had to do it manually by dragging and dropping the tabs. Microsoft has now added an automatic Sort Pages option. Right-click on a page tab
What’s the difference between aligning to a page and align margin in Word documents? Quite often, there’s no practical difference between ‘Align Page’ and ‘Align Margin’ in Word. These options appear when positioning an object on a page and other places. Centering an object has to be done compared to
Set Picture as Background in OneNote 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. Generally, the page can shift, and your notes can become a complete mess when inserting images, so it’s
