A full and searchable list of the measurements and multiplier prefixes available for Excel’s CONVERT function. This is a table of the abbreviations used in the Excel CONVERT() function. The basic units inbuilt to the function are all listed plus some of the common measures available using the Multiplier prefixes.
What happens to all the different windows open in Outlook for Windows when the software crashes? How can you restore the open windows when Outlook restarts? In case you didn’t know, it’s possible to have many windows open in Outlook. Many people don’t realize that because Outlook first starts with
Microsoft’s mail service Outlook.com might move Office Watch or Office for Mere Morals to Junk Email. Here’s how to stop it doing that for any email, The same advice applies to other newsletters and emails that are wrongly marked as Spam / Junk Email. The famous UK newsletter, Popbitch, is
Converting SVG icons into JPG is essential for older Word and Office versions that don’t have native icon/SVG support. Here’s some options for conversion or sourcing alternatives. SVG’s are great with many advantages for Office 365 and Office 2021/2019 users. Not everyone has the latest Microsoft Office or shares documents
Microsoft Word has almost all you need to make ‘hand written’ notes and letters for a fraction of the cost of a special service. Dig into some of the lesser known Word font and line spacing settings to get that ‘written by hand’ effect. The New York Times has a
Insert the Phi uppercase Φ, and Phi lowercase φ / φ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Phi (uppercase Φ / lowercase φ / φ) is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. The uppercase symbol has various uses, such as the cumulative distribution function of standard normal deviation in
Insert the Banana 🍌 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. There’s also a Banana icon in modern Office apps. How Banana 🍌 looks in different fonts. Only two Segoe fonts support the Banana emoji; Segoe UI emoji (color or
Get ChatGPT or Copilot to show working Office VBA code to select and open a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document. It’s an example of how to work with ChatGPT to get the code you need and its limitations. In episode 1 of this saga, Office Watch showed how to use
You can save a lot on Internet service by shopping around. You might not need to change ISP’s, just threaten to move your business elsewhere. Do a little research then contact your current ISP and ask them to match or better the plan you can get from one of their
The Washington Post confirms that you can save a lot on Internet service by shopping around. But the article doesn’t mention what keeps people with the same ISP and paying way too much for Internet access – using email supplied by the ISP. Moving your email address away from your
To make data entry simpler in Excel, form controls such as checkboxes can be added. A checkbox can be used to select or deselect an option. Checkboxes are useful for forms that have multiple options. The trick is using Excel’s Developer tab which holds the checkbox control. See How to get the Developer Tab in
How to insert the Sigma upper case Σ and Sigma lower case σ symbols in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Sigma (uppercase Σ / lowercase σ) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In mathematics, the uppercase sigma symbol is used
A Microsoft Word text box can have rounded corners instead of the default square corners. It’s remarkably easy once you know the simple trick. Word Text Boxes always start with square corners, no matter which default you choose from the gallery. But once it’s inserted, a Word text box can
Insert the Double Dagger ‡ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Double Dagger ‡ symbol is used to mark a third footnote after the asterisk and dagger in a Word document. How Double Dagger ‡ looks in different fonts. Here’s some
Word 365 Mobile for iPhone and iPad have Read Aloud or Speak options to make a voice read the document to you. The Microsoft Office options are almost the same for both devices. Read Aloud in iOS is similar to the feature in Word for Windows with the same little
How to change the look of Word mail merge data like dates and dollar amounts to exactly what you want to see in the documents. Nancy M asks: “I try to merge data (such as amount, PO#, to whom, as well as the date) from an Excel database. In the
How can you put percentages into a Word mail merge? There are several methods including the one we like because it’s reliable and simple. Following our article on importing Excel data into a Word mail merge, here are the options for using percentages. Excel might show a percentage but the
Here’s how to check how many days are left before Microsoft 365 needs an online ‘license check’ to confirm your license. Microsoft calls this a ‘grace period’. Also what’s the maximum possible offline access period. See Restart or renew Microsoft 365 licence before going offline Microsoft 365 software and apps check
Microsoft has made some ‘under the hood’ improvements to the combo ‘IF’ and ‘IFS’ functions like SumIFS(), SumIF(), CountIF() to make them faster than before. Just don’t believe Microsoft’s excessive boasts. The functions themselves behave the same but they now have a cached index for the range. That index is
Consider switching to SumIFS, it’s much the same as the older Excel function, SumIf() but easier to expand as your needs change. It can add up values according to more than criteria like a name and date range. We’ve talked about SUMIF and how its parameter order is a little
ChatGPT or Copilot can be used to learn the basics of Microsoft Office VBA coding with examples made to order. Here’s some VBA made by ChatGPT for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and some of its mistakes. ChatGPT or Copilot will take a simple request and returns some text. People
Hiding Footnotes or Endnotes in a Microsoft Word document is possible but needs a little trickery. Maybe you want a ‘clean’ version of the document without the clutter of notes. Or maybe the footnotes/endnotes are your own references for sources of information not intended for others to see. Ideally there
There are official and unofficial biohazard symbols available for Word docs, PowerPoint slides or any other place you need them. We have download links to better graphics you can use with variations to make them stand out The official biohazard symbol was developed in 1966 and there are many variations
Type Infinity ∞ and similar symbols into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. In Office for Windows and Office for Mac you can enter Infinity, Incomplete Infinity, Tie over Infinity and Infinity negated. Infinity ∞ symbol is used for anything that has no end or boundless. Of course, it’s in
