Insert the Telephone receiver symbol đ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Telephone receiver or handset đ 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. Whatâs 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 OpenAIâs Outpainting, âUncropâ is quite simple to use. Whatever you call it; Uncrop, Outpainting, extending etc, it’s a useful
Microsoft has released some information about what youâll need to get their AI tools (called Copilot) when they are eventually released. Copilot is Microsoftâs name for their upcoming AI tools integrated into Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) plus other services like Teams. As with all Microsoftâs Copilot announcements,
Microsoft Designer now has an image editing tool thatâs been missing from Microsoft Office. Erase in Designer lets you edit images in an important way thatâs 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 âpushing handsâ emoji, left 𫷠or right đ«žin Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and other Office apps. Officially the emoji are called Rightwards Pushing Hand đ«ž and Leftwards Pushing Hand đ«· but can also be used as a âHigh Fiveâ. These emoji can be used separately or together to great effect,
Microsoft is offering some workarounds for a bug in Outlook for Windows which leaves it hanging on the opening screen and very slowly opening properly. According to Microsoft the bug is in the Outlook software part of Microsoft 365 for Windows. We suspect a similar problem might also be in
Comments in Word documents can now have a quick response from others just by clicking a âLikeâđbutton. Why just one button when other Microsoft apps have more? Instead of writing a short reply adding to a Word comment thread, you can now just click a Likeđbutton on an existing comment
Microsoft continues to push Office users to store their documents on OneDrive with new promotional messages appearing inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Messages like these are appearing for Microsoft 365 customers who are saving documents on their computer, not OneDrive. âMAKE THE MOST OF MICROSOFT 365 Take advantage of OneDrive
Tiny Windows are stripped down versions of Windows 11 and Windows 10, ideal for older computers or virtual machines. We tested Microsoft Office on both âtiny11â and âtiny10â to see if the Office apps can run in memory far below the official limits. Tiny Windows are stripped down versions of
Tucked away in a little known part of Microsoftâs web sites is a lovely collection of wallpapers (or PowerPoint backgrounds) with new and old, nostalgic designs. Including a 4k rendering of the famous Windows XP wallpaper . Go to https://wallpapers.microsoft.design/ to see all the wallpapers. At first some in full-page
Microsoft is again changing the way Search works in Microsoft 365 and also (surprise!) Office 2021 to expand the results beyond the document or Office features. Now you can search for definitions, media and even web results from the top bar of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The most recent announcement
Our annual look at the words that challenged the Scripps Spelling Bee champs to see how many are recognized by the spell check in Microsoft Word. 2023 wasnât a good year for Word with a disappointing score that would shame some 14 year olds. Hereâs a selection of the last
Microsoft is already boasting that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams will work with the new Apple Vision Pro headset. Here’s a quick look at the new tech and a few features that caught our eye. Apple Vision Pro is the much anticipated virtual-reality headset due out in early 2024 for
What can you do if there’s an outage or breakdown in Microsoft 365 email cloud services? If you’re prepared, you can continue working and communicating until Microsoft fixes the outage. Microsoft 365 breaks down occasionally, so do other online services. These outages have and will happen to even the best
Insert the official Power on, off, sleep or standby symbols in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office apps. Either via a font or graphics. These power symbols are not directly supported in either Windows or Mac. Thatâs surprising because the symbols are commonly used on appliances and in software.Â
Use Excel to figure out the percentage discount or increase, for example the difference between the original and sale prices. We’ll show you the Excel formula and some practical tricks beyond the official answer. Percentage discount formula The basic formula is: (Original â Sale) â to figure out the difference
Amazonâs European sites are offering good deals on Microsoft 365 Family (for 6 users) including an unusual offer weâve not seen before. The best deal amounts to just âŹ5 a month which you can use to extend an existing Microsoft 365 Family plan. We’ve looked at each offer, figured out
The latest Microsoft 365 feature is an insult to customers who wonât obey. For years Microsoft has been pushing customers to save everything to their OneDrive cloud storage using many tricks, but this latest ‘smart reminder’ is blatant and insulting to paying customers. Smart Save Reminders The feature is called
Hide that âTry the new Outlookâ option appearing in Outlook for Windows and why you should not click that button ⊠not yet anyway. Microsoft has released the ânew Outlookâ to some customers as an option because they want lots of unpaid âguinea pigsâ. Each ânewâ feature added to the
Word and Office have several left âpointing handâ symbols available in some fonts. Hereâs the Unicode options explained and shown. We’ve also looked at the options for All the RIGHT pointing hand symbols in Word and Office Want more arrows or pointers? Check out all 200+ Arrow or Hand pointing
Insert the Right arrow â into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. The official Unicode name is âRightward Arrowâ â  but it can be called âRight pointingâ âRight facingâ or just âRight Arrowâ. Want more arrows or pointers? Check out all
How does Microsoft Wordâs spell check work against ten difficult or unusual words from a New York Times spelling bee quiz? Whatâs in a Word is an interesting quiz of words used in past Scrippâs Spelling Beeâs and, as usual, weâre interested in how many of the words are recognized
There are three main ways to run a macro in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook). From the Macros list, from a button on a ribbon or from the Quick Access toolbar. We previously spoke about how to install an Office VBA macro, hereâs how a macro can appear
