The latest macOS, v12 called ‘Monterey’ is out now. Which Microsoft Office for Mac will work with the new operating system for Mac computers? Should you update to Monterey now or wait a little while? In short, any Office for Mac which works with ‘Big Sur’ macOS v11 is OK
There’s a new generation growing up who see the Office ribbon differently from their parents. To some young people a floppy disk icon looks more like a vending machine! Check out this icon on the older Office ribbon …. To you, me and most people it means ‘Save’ because that’s
Microsoft has some Halloween related images, icons and more to add a little spooky to your documents and slides. See more Halloween suggestions – images, icons, fonts and more. We had a look through the Office Stock Content (Insert | Icons or Insert | Pictures | Stock Images) for Halloween
Excel is (finally!) fixing an annoying display problem with a change to smooth scrolling for large cells. Display of worksheets has always been on a ‘snap to cell’ basis meaning you scroll down or across to see a full cell or row at a time. That mostly makes sense for sheets
Microsoft PowerToys have fixed a glaring omission from Outlook, Windows and the Edge browser. PowerToys now lets Outlook preview PDF, Markdown and SVG attachments in the Reading Pane. For too long, the main way to get an Outlook preview of a PDF email attachment was to install the whole Adobe
Word has many options to make simple checklists that you can print out and tick with a pen (ink or digital). Plenty of formatting choices for the shape of the tick ‘box’, it’s color and size. There’s a simple shortcut to re-order the list. Previously we’ve discussed how to make
Redo is the often-forgotten partner to Undo. It’s mostly used to ‘undo an undo’ or reverse the last ‘Undo’ action but ‘Redo’ has other uses in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. In most cases, you use the redo button to revert to a previous state. For example, if you used
Android users with the Office mobile app also has a voice recording and transcription option. It’s a step up from a simple voice memo, offering live speech to text transcriptions, as well as synced text highlighting during audio file playbacks. Recordings can be exported to other Office 365 apps.
Excel and Wolfram have teamed up to produce a handy interactive Periodic Table Template, useful for those searching for an introduction to chemistry, or a handy guide for study. The table lets you easily access information on elemental properties, chemical compounds, diagrams and more. You can download or open the
Here’s the short list of new and changed features in Access 2021. It has only three new and changed features in the high-end Office 2021 and Office LTSC 2021 bundles. Remove, relink, or refresh linked tables The Access database includes a Linked Table Manager that provides a central location for
Visio 2021 has only two new and changed features in the high-end Office 2021 and Office LTSC 2021 bundles. Visio’s new shapes and stencils Microsoft has added many more stencils for users to use when creating Azure diagrams. For example, stencils can be used to create diagrams on network topologies,
Back in 2010 an Office Watch reader drew our attention to this Microsoft Knowledge Base article 2008277 (update: after we published this article the KB article was totally removed by Microsoft). “Error message “The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open” when opening a Word file from outside
An essential part of Word’s citations and bibliography feature is the Source Manager dialog – here’s how to, er, manage the Source Manager. Open the Source Manager from References | Citations and Bibliography | Manage Sources. There is a Current List (at right) which is saved in the current document.
The workload of students and academics has been made a lot easier with the arrival of Citation features in Word. They are useful for everyone, not just in academia. Citations are individual references to source material you’ve quoted in your document. A Bibliography is a list of citations and sources
Microsoft Word’s ‘Similarity Checker’ compares Word document text with online sources. That can warn the writer / student or reader / teacher about plagiarism or accidental copying. Word Similarity Checker uses Bing search to compare the text with online sources. It shows a percentage of text similar to text found
How many rows and columns does Excel have now and in the last 25 years of Excel for Windows and Mac? All the talk about 64-bit versions of Office has raised the issue of maximum rows and columns in Excel. A few readers seem to believe that 64-bit Excel will
In Microsoft Outlook you can view two calendars ‘side-by-side’ or overlaid to look like a single calendar. Select two calendars from the left-side pane of a Calendar view. Choose from ‘My Calendars’ or ‘Other Calendars’. The selected calendars appear ‘side-by-side’ in different colors. Overlaid with other calendars Click on the
Excel has six different choices for removing content, formatting, comments or everything from cells. Five are on the ribbon plus another hidden away. Plus three useful keyboard shortcuts, one obvious and two very obscure. Home | Clear On the right of the Home tab is a selection of five ‘Clear’
Microsoft Word has three different keyboard shortcuts to clear formatting, each with its own special variation on how to remove things like bold, italics etc. from text. Choose from Ctrl + Space , Ctrl + Q or Ctrl + Shift + N depending on exactly what you want to remove
Sometimes text formatting can get confusing in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher and OneNote. There are several ways to clear the additional formatting and return to original settings. The formatting styles in your text can be easily restored to their default settings by clearing all formatting. Users can waste a lot
There are many online tools that will summarize or paraphrase a long Word document into something shorter and more readable. These five tools also have other uses. Originally, Word 2007 had an Auto Summarize feature, but it was dropped in Word 2010, so Word users will need to rely on
Good news iOS users, if you’re a Microsoft 365 subscriber, you now have access the premium content library. Take your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint creations to the next level with thousands of royalty-free images, icons, stickers, and illustrations. Here’s how it works Tap Insert | Pictures | Stock Images on your iOS device,
There are several ways to add images into an Office SmartArt graphic; the official Microsoft way plus some others that aren’t usually mentioned for Word, PowerPoint and other Office apps. In the introductory piece, Much better lists with SmartArt , we looked at the SmartArt basics which are much the
What can you do with a file attachment that has no file extension? Sometimes you get a file, probably an email attachment, that has no file extension. Without something after the dot/period (.doc .docx .xlsx .pptx etc.) Windows doesn’t know what program to use. This is most likely to happen
