Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
If you are looking at a large document in the browser-based version of Microsoft Word, you might feel a bit overwhelmed when it comes to getting an overall understanding of what it contains. Copilot can help with a Summary at the top of the document, along with a variety of options to tailor your overview to what you need. Here’s what that looks like…
I ran across this cool tip the other day… You probably know some basic keyboard shortcuts that you use in Microsoft Word, but have you ever seen the entire list of keyboard shortcuts that work in Word? Using this tip, you can easily get a list of all of them. Here’s how that works…
Next up in the on-going list of Microsoft retirements… this one is a change to how Loop components are rendered in Word for the Web. Following is the Microsoft announcement…
Have you ever opened up a large Word document from SharePoint or OneDrive, and you wish you could easily get a summary of the document automatically so that you have some idea of what it contains? Now, Copilot will provide that for you! Here’s what it looks like when you open that large Word doc…
Have you ever had a number of images on a slide, and you’ve struggled to align them horizontally (or vertically)? You’ve spent way too much time moving things pixel by pixel, and then you wonder if it’s actually perfect? You can make that a lot easier by using the Align feature in PowerPoint (and it’s also available in Word). Thanks to Sandra for sharing this with me. Here’s how it works and looks…
We just received word (pun sort of intended) that the Designer in Word (for the web-based version) will be retired on March 31, 2025. This is a heads-up that if you use this particular feature, it won’t be available after that date. Following is the notice from Microsoft, as well as their recommendation on what to use instead…
If you are a user of Microsoft Word and you rely on the Researcher feature in that application, here’s a heads-up that the feature is being retired by Microsoft starting towards the end of December 2024 with a complete retirement by the end of January 2025. Here’s what that feature looks like…
One of my coworkers pointed out another Microsoft Word trick involving keeping words together on the same line. In this case, it’s if you want to keep a compound word (two words separated by a hyphen) together on the same line so it doesn’t appear to be a single word broken at the end of the line with a hyphen. Here’s how you do that…
Here’s a quick tip I learned today from my wife Tamara. If you’re typing along in Microsoft Word and you end up with two words split between two lines, you can use this tip to make sure those two words stay together on a single line. Here’s how that works…
One Minute Office Magic 