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Installing Microsoft 365 or Office? Do These Two Things
Just installed Microsoft 365 or Office on a new PC? Before you open a single document, do one quick thing: check for updates. We did a clean install straight from Microsoft using the standard “Click to Run” method, expecting the newest version, and within minutes an update check found fresh security and bug fixes waiting. […]
Microsoft 365
Random Numbers in Excel: RAND, RANDBETWEEN and RANDARRAY Explained
Random numbers in Excel are easier than most people think, and you have three main tools to choose from: RAND() for decimals between 0 and 1, RANDBETWEEN() for whole numbers in a range, and RANDARRAY() for filling whole blocks of cells at once. This guide shows you how to make random numbers in Excel for […]
Office for Mac
Outlook Reusable Content: Templates and Quick Parts Explained (and Why It’s a Mess)
Reusable content in Outlook should be simple, but Microsoft has turned it into a confusing tangle of overlapping tools with near identical names. Mail Templates, My Templates and two completely different features both called Quick Parts all promise to save you retyping the same email text, yet each one works differently depending on whether you […]
Buying Office
64-bit or 32-bit Office: Which Microsoft 365 Version Should You Choose?
Choosing 64-bit or 32-bit Office sounds like a decision that matters, but for almost everyone it does not. Since around 2020, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office have installed as 64-bit software by default, and that is the right choice for nearly every Windows PC. The 64-bit version is faster, uses more memory and is more […]