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• Ten stunning features in Microsoft Word

  Posted on October 2, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Microsoft Word has been around for so long, it’s easy to forget how great it really is.

  If you ask Microsoft about great Word features, they’ll drag out a list of recent innovations (starting and ending with “AI” and plenty of “cloud” in between). My own “stunning features” are things we take for granted, with some tips to make better use of them.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.40.0, 2023-10-02).

  Microsoft 365 Art, Collaboration, Indexes, Newsletters, Styles, Voice input, Word

• New fonts and templates, but with traps

  Posted on September 4, 2023 at 02:45 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.36 • 2023-09-04

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Whenever you start a new document by clicking “Blank” (or “New”) in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook, you’re almost certainly using Microsoft’s default templates and fonts.

  Microsoft has started pushing changes to those starting “blanks” for Microsoft 365 in a very special way that adds little compatibility traps for Office 2021/2019 as well as earlier versions.

  You’ve probably heard about the change in default templates and the arrival of the new Aptos font family. What I’ll explain here is the true scope of those changes and how they are quite different from past Office template and font changes.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.36.0, 2023-09-04).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Microsoft 365 Aptos, Cloud Fonts, Excel, fonts, Microsoft Office, Newsletters, Outlook, PowerPoint, Styles, Word