How to type Ghana Cedi currency character in Windows or Office, especially Word. After our article about inserting Numero and other symbols into Office – trust an Office Watch reader to find a character not available in a supplied Windows / Office font: ” The currency in Ghana is the
Microsoft Word has footnotes and endnotes features but it’s surprisingly clumsy when it come to the common need for footnotes immediately after a table. Normally, Word puts Footnotes at the bottom of the page but for tables (and occasionally pictures or diagrams) you want them immediately after the table like
Here’s how to stop Microsoft Office for Mac from automatically updating itself and why you might want to do refresh the Office apps. Office 2019 / 2016 for Mac All versions of Office for Mac that have current support (currently Office 2016 and later) get: updates to fix bugs in
A sad story from rural Australia where a local netball group lost AU$150,000 (US$115,000) when they were tricked into paying an invoice to the wrong bank account, one run by cyber-hackers. Here’s what happened and how to protect money you’re responsible for. The volunteers didn’t know their email accounts had
Microsoft changes what’s displayed in Excel Map Charts depending on your location and Microsoft’s policies in certain countries like China. We’ve had reports from people in China and Hong Kong that they can’t ‘see’ Taiwan on their Excel Map Charts. In most of the world, China and Taiwan show up
Paying less for Microsoft 365 Family or Personal isn’t easy these days. Why is that and what discount options are still available? There was a time, not so long ago, when getting a discounted price for a Microsoft 365 consumer plan wasn’t hard. All the major retailers sold Microsoft 365
Org Explorer is a new part of Outlook for Windows that shows where you fit in an organization. Who is ‘above’ and ‘below’ or near your place in the company? For Microsoft 365 hosted accounts, Org Explorer appears on the Home tab, on the right-side under the Find chunk. Microsoft
Microsoft Outlook is in the final stages of a major improvement in the ‘plumbing’ behind synchronizing calendars across an organization. Leaving aside a particularly outrageous Redmond boast, the changes are welcome enhancements. Outlook and Exchange Server can have difficulties coping with fast changing appointment and meeting arrangements. When several people
Review mode is a very useful sharing choice in OneDrive and Sharepoint for Microsoft Word documents only. It lets people look over and comment on a Word document without changing the text. Only Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Education customers can get Review Mode. Look for it at the bottom of
The Block Download option is worth considering when sharing an Office document, audio file or PDF that you’d like to limit distribution in OneDrive or SharePoint. Block Download is only available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Education customers. Look for it at the bottom of the shared Link Settings. What
The options for sharing documents and files will be changing over the next twelve months for the Office 365 apps, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive. Year of Sharing The whole suite of changes is what Microsoft is grandly calling the ‘Year of Sharing’. That’s overstating things because there’s little or no
Yet more examples of strangeness and inconsistencies with Excel Map Charts with some unexpected workarounds. When Bing ‘accidently’ dropped images of the Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man’ (not the first time such politically convenient ‘bugs’ have creeped into Bing). It made us wonder how Excel Map Charts (a Bing cloud service)
Esports (online gaming) is getting serious. Tomorrow the Financial Modelling World Cup pits eight Excel experts against each other in an online tournament. Instead of fighting battles or virtual sports, this is a test of Excel skills. It’s being called the ‘888 Battle’ 8 Contestants from 8 Countries on 8th
Office for Windows can have an extra on the Home pane – Recommended Documents which tries to suggest documents you’re involved with. Here’s what’s possible with this feature including how to hide it away and leave more screen space for the things you want to see. Source: Microsoft Recent Documents
Microsoft has a series of demo pages that go ‘step by step’ through the main features in Teams. Teams Basics https://Teamsdemo.office.com is the demo to start with. It explains the main elements of Teams including channels, members, posts etc. All the demos are focused on Teams not Teams Free but
How to sort a list using a hidden or unseen column in a Microsoft Word table. Sometimes you want to sort a list in a way that isn’t apparent to the reader. To continue our Apollo theme, here’s a list of the twelve men who walked on the moon with
You can hide a table column in Word, all it takes is a little trickery and ignoring Microsoft’s advice! Sometimes you want to hide a table column in a Word document but according to Microsoft you can’t do it. Here’s how to do it anyway. It’s true that there’s no
Google Maps is invaluable for getting around, especially in an unknown city. Corporate rivalry means there’s no proper integration between Microsoft Outlook and Google Maps There’s not even a mapping button in the Outlook appointments view. Contacts have a ‘Map it’ button but not ‘Location’ in an appointment – for
A few annoying things in Excel 365 / 2019 / 2021 / LTSC Map charts that Microsoft should fix. We’ll explain the traps and some workarounds. Making our COVID-19 Vaccination workbook reminded us of some anomalies in Excel Map Charts. Always check the Map area options Whenever using the Map
Join us in a hunt for face mask graphics and icons to use in Word documents and PowerPoint slides. Use fask mask icons in signs. See Social Distancing signs in Microsoft Word More ideas for social distancing signs Icons The obvious place for Office 365 customers to look is Microsoft’s
Some of the features, tips tricks in our new COVID-19 vaccination statistics workbook for Excel 365. See Get COVID-19 vaccination stats and more from Excel for info on the workbook and what it does. We’ve made this workbook as a practical example of some important recent Excel features and how
We have a new COVID-19 statistics workbook with a new automatically updating Excel spreadsheet that shows the latest cases and vaccination rates by country and region. All our Office Watch readers can get the entire workbook today. We’ve made this workbook as a practical and timely example of some important
We’ve all seen the standard Find/Replace in Microsoft Word, either the ‘new’ pane or the older dialog box. Like so much else in Word, there’s a lot more available than the obvious features. Here’s a look at some of tricks. Press Ctrl + F to start a Find. In recent
Microsoft Word’s Replace does a lot more than just replacing one bit of text for another. It can quickly change formatting, enforce a style, paste from clipboard and use special characters. You’re probably familiar with the basics. Press Ctrl + H to open the Replace dialog. Type in the text
