Of course, there are emoji suitable for St Patrick’s 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 Patrick’s Day Like all emoji, use with care on web
Make Excel mobile for iPhone or iPad read aloud a workbook. Great for double-checking figures from a printed source. The options aren’t very good but we’ll explain what might be possible. Excel 365 does not have a Read Aloud or Speak feature similar to Word for iPhone/iPad let alone Word
It is possible to display your Mac screen to another person or even let someone take control of your Mac to fix a problem or help learn a computer skill. We’ll explain how to find and start the Screen Sharing app in macOS and an alternative. Windows has a similar
PowerPoint 365 (Windows, Mac and iOS) can now use separate caption files for audio inside a presentation and also export the captions with media. What’s new are captions for audio files like a transcript of a lecture or even song lyrics for a PowerPoint ‘sing-a-long’. There’s a catch but one
There’s a better, more selective way to choose which shapes, images or other objects to ‘Morph’ between slides in PowerPoint 365, 2021 and 2019. Morph in PowerPoint is a way to transition between two slides with a nice smooth effect like this. The Morph transition normally applies to either all
Some ‘not allowed’ or ‘prohibited’ symbols, they can be used in Word, PowerPoint, Excel or Outlook. No Smoking, No Phone, No Children, No Drinking, No Pedestrians, No Bicycles, Not Drinkable Water or Mute. The Unicode symbol list includes red circle with diagonal to stop, smoking, children under 18, Mobile Phones,
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
Microsoft is hyping their “Microsoft 365 app” but here’s what’s really happening, when the changes will happen and why it’s more hype and rebranding than useful improvements for Microsoft 365 customers. There’s really two parts to this “new” Microsoft 365, changes to the Office.com web site and later, a “Microsoft
PowerPoint is getting a Portrait or vertical orientation option for PowerPoint mobile on Apple iPhone and iPad. Portrait mode is already in PowerPoint desktop (Windows/Mac) though it’s hidden. Portrait mode for slides and videos is quite common these days (TikTok and similar are all portrait) even though it offends purists
It’s possible and practical to make ‘handwritten’ notes or edits direct on your Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents. Instead of printing them out and using a pen/pencil, do it on-screen with a digital pen. Here’s a real-world guide to how you can do it, leaving aside the hype and flashy
Apple Pencil is great, expensive, but still the best digital pen option for iPads. Managing it’s battery life needs simple trickery. The Apple Pencil doesn’t have an on/off option. That means that the Pencil keeps a connection and drains a little battery life all the time. When the Pencil is
The Verge has some good advice on buying an iPad and choosing between the many models available. Now’s the time to buy last year’s iPad by Dan Seifert cuts through the messy collection of Apple iPad models with this core advice … … thing that remains the same is it is
These days it’s quite simple to share a video or any large file via email, here’s how. You’ll need a cloud storage service, Google, iCloud or OneDrive. We’ll use OneDrive because it comes with Microsoft 365 and it’s well integrated with Outlook. The same steps apply to any large file
Here’s a handy Excel worksheet for visitors to Europe, including UK citizens. It’ll help you stay within the legal limits for ‘short stays’ by visitors to the EU Schengen zone. Most visitors to Europe are allowed to stay in the Schengen group of countries for 90 days out of the
Did you know that the U.S has two feet? Meaning two different measurements for the term ‘foot’? That got us wondering how Excel’s Convert() handled the standard ‘foot’ and the US Survey ‘foot’. Excel Convert() supports the International Standard Foot and, indirectly, the US Survey Foot. America Has Two Feet.
How to typing words with a diaeresis or umlaut in Word for Windows, Mac, Apple or Android plus the shortcuts on Mac computers. They aren’t normally needed in English except some organizations that require diaeresis for words like: naïve coöperate reëlect Brontë Noël Noël Coward Or you might be typing
Excel shows midday or noon as 12:00 PM which doesn’t suit everyone, here’s how to change the defaults to a word such as ‘Midnight’ or any other time label you’d like. ABC News in Australia delves into the argument about showing 12 PM – There is no such time as
You have an Apple iPad but do you know all the different ways that Microsoft Office can run on an iPad. There are four different options, some free and others you have to pay for. Why bother? Surely you just install the Office mobile apps and that’s it? Sadly no,
An easy way to make fancy text, especially headings, with extra style and flourish is with the OpenType Ligatures in Word for Microsoft 365, 2021 and earlier versions of Word including Word for Mac. Microsoft Word supports OpenType Ligatures. Apart from Word, OpenType Ligatures are also applicable in Publisher and,
There’s a way to convert a sentence into an Excel Formula using modern AI. You’d expect this to come from Microsoft but instead it’s the work on one smart man who has made the Excel Formula Bot. David Bressler has created a way to turn human sentences into an Excel
Let’s take a moment to see where customers stand with Dark Mode options in Microsoft Office in Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and web. It’s easy to get confused about Microsoft 365 and Office 2021 dark mode or theme options. Microsoft has announced ‘dark’ developments so many times it’s hard
Here’s the full and searchable list of Word 365 Dictation special phrases, in English. Saying any of these phrases converts the words spoken into the symbol or does a Word command. For example, say “Full Stop” and . appears in the document. Say “Dollar sign” and get $ . Say
A small but important change is coming to Word mobile app for iPhone, iPad or Android. You’re able to continue listening to a ‘Read Aloud’ document from the lock screen. At the moment, Word will stop reading a document to you if the lock screen is enabled (usually because there’s
Type the OK Hand sign 👌 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. OK Hand sign 👌 emoji is mostly used to symbolize approval, agreement, all that is well but there are other meanings. Scuba Divers use 👌 hand sign to
