The BBC has a great collection of over 16,000 sound effects that you can add to your PowerPoint presentations. Use them as a trigger sound for a click on a presentation, as a novel background noise or even an alert sound on your computer or smartphone. Sound Effects Galore Exploring
The Dictation feature in Outlook for iPhone, iPad and Android will leave the apps in September for no reason Microsoft will share. The announcement was made discreetly so that only Microsoft 365 non-consumer accounts with Admin access are notified. Message MC841218 “We will be retiring the Dictation feature from Microsoft
Once upon a time there was just one ‘Microsoft Outlook‘ but these days there are at least eleven current programs or services under the ‘Outlook’ name * and two programs called “Outlook for Windows”. That’s before counting past versions that are still supported. You’re totally excused for being confused because
Why you can’t insert national flag emoji (among many) in Microsoft Office and Windows but can in Office for Mac, macOS, iPhone and iPad. We’ll explain the workaround necessary to insert national flags in Windows and Office for Windows. Apple devices (macOS, iPhone and iPad) show flag emoji properly like
Use these handy Excel formulas for circle and sphere calculations! Whether they’re a distant memory from school days or a recent discovery, you can easily compute them using Pi π, or as Excel dubs it, Pi(). Many formulas rely on Pi 𝜋 so Excel has a simple function Pi() which
Copilot AI services for Word and PowerPoint are now in the Microsoft 365 mobile app for business or education users with the Copilot add-on. The integration is in the Word and PowerPoint parts of the ‘all in one’ Microsoft 365 mobile app, look for the Copilot logo in the bottom
Cells in a PowerPoint slide table can be split or merged (combined) in PowerPoint for iPad. Word for iPad can already combine or split table cells and now the PowerPoint app works the same way. Select two or more cells in a table and choose Merge | Merge Cells from
WhatsApp can send any file, photo, video or text notes to yourself, in other words between your computers or devices. Files up to 2GB can be moved quickly and securely between machines. Sometimes you need to copy something between two computers or devices you have. That could be a little
Anyone can view and even edit a Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Onenote file on your computer by using Office in a browser. It’s free for anyone. Even if you have Microsoft Office software, the browser based apps are worth keeping in mind. They let you keep working even if
Do you ever wish you could take back an email that you sent too soon or with a mistake? You’re in luck because Outlook lets you delay sending messages for a certain amount of time after you hit Send. It’s like having a second chance to prevent a mistake. We’ll
Once you know the ‘secret’ shortcuts, it’s easy to type the umlaut vowels ä ë ï ö ü Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü in Word and Outlook but, alas, it’s not the same in Excel or PowerPoint. There are alternatives in Windows and Mac if you’re not using Word. There’s
OneDrive Personal Vault part of OneDrive storage that adds more security for important files synchronized with cloud storage. Personal Vault is a part of your OneDrive quota that needs an extra layer of secure login to access. It’s intended as a place for personal or business data storage. Personal Vault
Excel 365 for Windows and now Excel 365 for Mac and Mobile apps have a long overdue improvement to its drop-down list selector. At long last we have AutoComplete or Search for pull-down lists. You’ll be able to type a search into the drop-down list so Excel can show all
Here’s how to get the new Microsoft Designer app for iPhone and Android smartphones. Also how to share designs between the mobile app and the full Designer web app. Get the Designer app Go to https://designer.microsoft.com/install and scan the QR code provided on that page That will open the App
Office Lens is a good app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. If you want to convert photos into a Word document (as text) or PDF, the Office Lens is the way to go. Lens has a wonderful straightening trick that turns an off-center photo into something ‘straight on’ which
OneNote for iPad is finally getting superscript and subscript text formatting options, ten years after the app was released. We’ll show where to find it on the Home tab and the keyboard shortcuts. It’s true, Subscript and Superscript are only now coming to OneNote for iPad (released in 2013). Microsoft
With the sale of fonts via the Microsoft Store and cloud fonts there’s now a complication in the familiar way fonts are managed in Windows 11/Windows 10 and how Office for Windows handles new fonts. There are now three different locations that fonts can be saved. For as long as
An easier way to put images into an Excel workbook. IMAGE() is a new function which imports an external picture into a cell. We’ll explain how it works and some ways that Image() doesn’t go far enough. Image() lets you drop an picture into a cell with some options to
Add your personal signature to a PDF with the Microsoft 365 app for Apple or Android devices. You can sign a PDF and save your signature for quicker reuse with other documents. This is a useful trick if someone sends you a document to be signed. Instead of printing, signing
A quick guide to reading and searching PDF files on an iPad, either with the Books app or the Adobe PDF viewer. There are many apps that can view PDF files on portable devices. They all have the same basic features (more or less). View Table of Contents (Bookmarks in
Reading an Office Watch ebook on a portable device like an iPad or iPhone is quite easy. We’ll take you through the steps, which work for any PDF or other files, not just our ebooks. Many thousands of our Office Watch ebook readers use their iPad/tablet to read our books.
Microsoft is expanding their Phone Link feature in Windows 11 to include Apple iPhones. That means call and SMS text messaging from an iPhone can appear on a Windows screen. Phone Link is already available for Android phones. With a connected smartphone Microsoft likes to talk broadly about ‘messages’ and
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
There are new look menus and toolbars coming to the iPhone Microsoft Office apps, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the all-in-one Microsoft 365 app. We’re not sure when you’ll see these changes because they are three months late! Microsoft started talking about this ‘fast and fluent’ change in November 2022. Three
