Hereās what to do if you get the dreaded Microsoft 365 / Office 2021 or Office 2019 Unlicensed Product / View only error message. Assuming you have a current Office 2021/2019 or Microsoft 365 subscription (weāll show you how to check that, below).Ā The unlicenced product warning usually happens if
Use these Microsoft Word options to quickly find words and word variations that you might have thought impossible. Finding words that sound the same or past, present and future tenses in the one search or ignoring punctuation to find “its” and “it’s” in one search These options are in the
How to insert the Reversed Question Mark / Irony ⸮ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook.Ā Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Reversed Question Mark / Irony ⸮ symbol has been proposed to denote irony or sarcasm within text.Ā Or for rhetorical questions. Itās never really
Dyslexie is a special font that’s easier for dyslexic people to read than standard type. It’s free for personal use and easy to include in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint for Windows or Mac. The font is specially designed, making it easier for the eye/brain to distinguish similar letters. For
The Microsoft Copilot announcements reach new heights, or lows of Microsoft Hype⢠depending on your point of view. Weāre used to reading lots of āexcitementā from Microsoft thatās impressive sounding but essentially meaningless. Perhaps this pre-announcement for Copilot was mostly about Microsoft wanting to maintain the appearance of being ahead
Strip away the hype and vague promises for the upcoming Microsoft Copilot and see what these AI features can do for you. As regular Office Watch readers know, we prefer to talk about products we can use ourselves. Until we can do that, weāve stripped away the considerable Copilot hype
More is coming out about the latest, critical Outlook security bug and how embarrassingly easy it is for hackers to infiltrate an unguarded computer. What Microsoft blandly calls an āOutlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityā is truly dangerous and is so easily done that it’s likely to be quickly and widely
Irish Gaelic, Gaeilge or just Irish is available in Microsoft Word Translator and other translate services from Microsoft. Here’s how to download the Irish spell check and other proofing tools. Irish Gaelic is the first official language of the Republic. English is more commonly used and the second official language.Ā
An early peek at Microsoft Copilot, a new part of Microsoft 365 that’s so new it’s not yet available to “Insiders”. We’ll carefully look at Copilot in PowerPoint which can make a whole slide deck based on an existing Office document. The ever-reliable Walking Cat has leaked an image and
Put the Irish flag into Office documents, Word, Excel or PowerPoint,āÆthen use some Office picture tools to enhance the image. Great for St Patrick’s Day too. The same helpāÆappliesāÆfor any other national flag, just look for a different source. Get the Ireland Flag Image Weāve opted for the Wikipedia site
Hereās five fonts, free to use, to decorate your St Patrickās Day documents or slides in Microsoft Office. They are all compatible with Microsoft Office both Windows and Mac Letās start with three traditional Celtic style fonts. Irish Uncialfabeta Download Kells Unical Download Celtic Still Celtic style but curvier with
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) already have some Irish St Patrickās Day themed graphics.Ā Hereās a guide to whatās available for Shamrock, Four-leaf Clover, Leprechaun hats, pot of gold and Guinness graphics plus the exact Green and Orange colors to use. Along the way weāll do our bit
Of course, there are emoji suitable for St Patrickās Day; four leaf clover, shamrock, top hat, two for beer and a rainbow. Here they are, how they look on different devices and the codes to find them. Emoji for St Patrickās Day Like all emoji, use with care on web
Tucked away in Microsoft Office is a little used tag āContent Statusā or just āStatusā that could help manage and find Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in organizations. Unfortunately, Content Status is only used once in Office features. Itās supported in Windows Explorer if you know where to look. On
A critical security bug in Outlook has now been patched by Microsoft, about 11 months AFTER hackers started exploiting the vulnerability. Ā This is truly a serious security problem and it’s important to update your Microsoft Office now.Ā Even Microsoft rates this problem as Critical, this from a company that normally
A new-ish keyboard shortcut in Excel 365 (Windows/Mac) is very handy for pasting values into a cell or matching the destination formatting. A common Excel task is pasting content into a cell from non-Excel sources (a web page, document, email etc). Until now (and in Excel 2021/2019 etc) is quite
Microsoft is adding zoom shortcuts to Word for Windows and Mac to make Word more ābrowser likeā but to do that theyāre changing long-standing keyboard shortcuts. These are keyboard shortcuts you might be using in a web browser and they already work for documents for Word in a browser. Zoom
Some basketball fans at Microsoft have released an Excel workbook to play mens and womens āfantasyā college basketball with friends and family. Excel randomly allocates the 64 teams to your players who can see how the tournament progresses through the shared workbook. Even if youāre not interested in ācollege hoopsā,
Excel has five different Pie Charts, here they all are, showing how to use each chart and tricks to make the charts look better. Microsoft has five Excel Pie Charts though one of them is really a donut/doughnut. Find them all at Insert | Charts; 2-D and 3-D Pie charts
There are several ways for an Excel table to be transposed (rows and columns) but none of the online suggestions work very well with tables. Weāve found a solution which transposes one table into a āswappedā table i.e headers become column A and column A becomes the headers. Along the
Here’s an even better way to make an automatic list of tabs in an Excel workbook it works in Excel for Windows and Mac and bypasses some possible traps. Start with our article on Automatic worksheet/tabs list in Excel which explains how to add a list of Excel tabs/sheets with
Here’s a complete list of the Word Function Key features from fast access to Help, jumping around the document, doc panes, spelling, grammar and managing field codes. Letās discuss in detail the functionality of the F-keys labelled F1 through F12 on your keyboard. F1 – Help, field jump F2 –
InsertĀ the Epsilon upper case Ī, and Epsilon lower case ε symbols inĀ Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook.Ā Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac.Ā Epsilon (uppercase Ī / lowercase ε) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. The uppercase isnāt commonly used outside of the Greek language,
The inverted or Spanish question mark  ¿ is available in Microsoft Word, regardless of language setting. Thereās even an in-built shortcut. ¿ is most commonly used in Spanish for the start of a question sentence. This guide is mostly for people without a Spanish keyboard or who only occasionally need