A very common issue faced by individuals at the workplace is to share Microsoft Office files which have a large file size. This includes Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets. Many a times using the default compression features such as image compression does not do the job. Furthermore, compressing PDF files is even […]

Pixabay is a famous service which offers free stock photos which can be used for personal or commercial use without attribution. The high-resolution photos available at Pixabay cover any topic imaginable and you can search and download images without paying a dime or worrying about copyrights issues. If you want to instantly insert images to […]

Emojis can make conversations on WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger more interesting. Emojis have become a regular part of daily conversations and are therefore quite easily recognized by many people. Maybe it’s time you brought emojis to your presentation slides. Emoji Keyboard is an app that brings an entire emoji pack for PowerPoint, Word and OneNote.

If you are using one of the newer versions of Microsoft Office, you might notice a link to the Office Store under the Insert tab. This store gives access to various apps that you can insert in your Office files, including PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and the spreadsheets you create in Excel. These set of […]

There are a number of good conversion and PDF manipulation web apps which can save you the hassle of installing an extra piece of software on your mobile device or computer. We recently brought you a review of one such tool known as ILovePDF. While ILovePDF provides a number of PDF manipulation options, it does […]

You might have noticed that when you download an Office file from the Internet, say a PowerPoint Template, it is not immediately editable. This is because when you open downloaded files for the first time you get a read-only view, known as the Protected View.

A few years back I tried to use the speech to text feature in Windows to try to create documents using voice typing. Suffice to say the experience didn’t make me a fan of the feature. When I discovered that Google has integrated Voice Typing in Google Docs, I was a bit skeptical, especially considering […]

In a very short period of time we have seen some leaps and bounds in the ability of cloud services to deliver effective online support for editing Office files. Much of those editing features are owed to web apps from Office Online and Google Drive. Even famous cloud services like Dropbox and Box use Office […]

PowerPoint itself provides a plethora of options for converting slides into different formats like; PDF, Rich Text Format, XPS, image (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), open document (ODP) and video files (WMV or MP4). However, there are some formats that still need third-party converters to get things done. For example, you might want to […]

When working with Office documents a corrupt file or a mistake can often lead to wasting hours of work. While products like Microsoft Office Suite do offer restoring files from older version, however, this feature is often not enabled by users. Moreover, corrupt files, like PowerPoint presentations, Word documents or Excel sheets can be impossible […]

Microsoft has been fairly consistent in upgrading the PC editions of Microsoft Office over the years. One can only wonder what took so long to give a proper update to Office for Mac. Better late than never, the latest edition, Office 2016 for Mac is now available.

Google isn’t any stranger to introducing unexpected surprises. In a recent move, Google released a Google Drive Plugin for Microsoft Office. This free plugin can be installed as an add-in for MS Office to allow editing of Google Drive files directly in PowerPoint, Excel and Word.