Here are samples of the five new fonts available for Microsoft 365 and Office 2021 customers one of which has become the new default font, but under a different name – Aptos. Did we say five? … there are really 10 new sans-serif fonts. Each of the five newbies come
Word has a way of finding Unicode symbols by their reference number, except it doesn’t work for many symbols and not at all for emoji! And the Find ^u option is inconsistent with the rest of Word and common practice. These bugs have been in Word for a few years
The Excel Stock data type lets you track the largest companies market capitalization in real-time. It’s strangely compelling to watch the market caps change by billions in the blink of an eye. Excel 365’s Stock data type has the essential information to calculate market capitalization with changing values in real-time.
Make your own Wordle grids in Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint or Excel. Choose the right font, colors (the exact green, yellow or grey) plus grid details including blank or unfilled boxes. Wordle was originally a standalone app, created by Josh Wardle . It’s now owned and run by The New
How to insert the Grinning Face 😀 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Grinning Face 😀 emoji is usually depicted as a yellow face, with open eyes and a wide smile. Conveys good cheer or humor, often to make
Some features have been dropped from Microsoft 365 Family, Personal and other plans. Wolfram data types in Excel and so-called ‘Partner Benefits‘. As usual the announcement was full of marketing euphemisms and didn’t tell the whole story because a third feature (Excel’s Money template) discontinued on the same date. Three Microsoft
Microsoft is warning about a security bug in Windows and Office that has no patch (yet) but is being publicly exploited. We’ll explain what to look out for and how to protect yourself. It appears to be (yet another) security hole in Windows which allows unauthorized code to run on
Barbie (the doll, not the Aussie BBQ) is everywhere at the moment so we’ll explain how to select Barbie Pink in your Word documents, Excel sheets and PowerPoint slides. There’s no one Barbie Pink but a selection to choose from. We looked around various official sources for the toys and
Finding emoji or any high value Unicode symbol is difficult in Microsoft Word because of bugs in the software. We’ll explain the only reliable way to find emoji and the problems with the features that should work, but don’t. We’ll start with the best answer we can find. It’s not
Some more Microsoft Word Find tricks. Select and Find, finding blank lines, search for special characters/emoji, find a certain font or formatting plus wildcard options. This article follows on from our introduction Find pane search secrets in Word Select and Find If you select some text in a document then
How to put text around an object; image, chart, shape or other Microsoft Word object. Continuing from our look at putting Word text vertically, at an angle or curved Text around a Box Putting text around a box requires four separate text boxes, positioned and grouped around the object. Here’s
Word isn’t limited to horizontal text, with a little digging on the ribbon you can put text vertically, at an angle, on a curve or even around a shape or picture. And in Put text around a shape, square or circle in Microsoft Word we’ll look at: From the Office-Watch.com archives there’s
Add the Easter Island stone statue (Moai/Moyai) 🗿 symbol, 3D model or photo into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Moai 🗿 symbol represents the famous stone statues of Easter Island. It can be used to show a deadpan, ‘straight face’
There are many ways to visually explain a list of values with different types of Excel Charts and other trickery. We’ve already looked at the numerical or statistical ways to summarize a list of values. Now let’s visualize the data in various ways available easily in Excel. There are various
Everyone knows the SUM function in Excel but that’s just the start, there are eight SUM() functions (and more) for adding up numbers in different ways. SUM() SUM is one of the first functions taught to newcomers. It’s as old as Excel itself (older because SUM was in the first
A Windows 11 update might stop Outlook or other Office apps from working because of a conflict with anti-virus software. The trouble started with KB5027231 a Windows 11 update released 13 June 2023 which, among other things, fixed a file copying bug. 15 days later Microsoft admitted there was a bug
At long last, there’s a way to insert an image into a single Excel cell called Place in Cell. No problems with floating images etc, just a cell with a picture which resizes with the cell size. Adding images to Excel sheets has always been confusing because they weren’t directly
How large can a document in Microsoft Word actually get? While most users never hit the upper limits, Word does have technical size restrictions that can affect performance, file stability, images, and long reports. Here’s what you need to know about maximum Word document size, file limits, and how to
Insert the Telephone receiver symbol 📞 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Telephone receiver or handset 📞 symbol can be used on a letterhead or sign where a phone number is shown. There’s an emoji in the Unicode standard plus
A clever interactive from The New York Times explains the basics of fonts and how to choose the right font for your documents, slides and sheets. What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you starts with an option to read the whole article in different
Stability.AI now has a quick and easy way to expand or extend an image. Using AI, it can take an existing image to make a larger version. Unlike other options like OpenAI’s Outpainting, ‘Uncrop’ is quite simple to use. Whatever you call it; Uncrop, Outpainting, extending etc, it’s a useful
Microsoft has released some information about what you’ll need to get their AI tools (called Copilot) when they are eventually released. Copilot is Microsoft’s name for their upcoming AI tools integrated into Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) plus other services like Teams. As with all Microsoft’s Copilot announcements,
Microsoft Designer now has an image editing tool that’s been missing from Microsoft Office. Erase in Designer lets you edit images in an important way that’s not possible in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook for Windows or Mac. Picture editing in Office has a lot of features but they mostly
Type the ‘pushing hands’ emoji, left 🫷 or right 🫸in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and other Office apps. Officially the emoji are called Rightwards Pushing Hand 🫸 and Leftwards Pushing Hand 🫷 but can also be used as a ‘High Five’. These emoji can be used separately or together to great effect,
