Re-setting Word Options

A few weeks ago I started writing about re-setting Word options if an update from Microsoft has set them back to defaults Then I allowed my attention to be hijacked away from Word options when Bard (Google’s AI) admitted lying to me. Let’s try again By default, Word automatically capitalises the first letter of every …
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Predictive typing in Word and Windows (10 & 11)

The spirit of Clippy is back Do you remember the good old days of the Microsoft “Clippy” character in Microsoft Word? If you started to create a document that looked anything like a letter then it popped up a totally useless box with a totally fatuous and infantile piece of clipart, and a caption saying …
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Outlook Search – Where Did it Find the Results?

Outlook Search may be good at finding things – but it’s not so good at telling you WHERE it found them Simple search in Outlook To begin with, a bit of clarification about “Outlook” This article is about the version of Outlook that is part of Microsoft 365 (or Microsoft Office, as it used to …
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