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Word, Excel & Office Apps Guides

Here are my Word, Excel & Office Apps guides — 25 in all. Every one is written in plain English, researched and reviewed by me, and free to read, print, or share. And if you get stuck, I can often fix it the same day without leaving your chair — remotely.

All 25 Word, Excel & Office Apps guides

Free to read, print, or share — no sign-up, no email. Every one written and reviewed by Bill.

"This File Won't Open" — .docx, .pages, .odt & Other Mystery Attachments Read the guide → "Unlicensed Product" & Activation Errors — Getting Word Working Again Read the guide → "Where Did My Document Go?" — AutoSave, Recent Files & Recovering Lost Work Read the guide → Buying Office Once Instead of Subscribing — Is It Still Worth It? Read the guide → Canceling or Downgrading Microsoft 365 Without Losing Your Files Read the guide → Combine, Split & Shrink PDFs — Free Tools That Aren't Traps Read the guide → Copilot in Word & Excel — What It Does, What It Costs, How to Turn It off Read the guide → Dictate, Read Aloud & Bigger Text in Word — Easier on Eyes and Hands Read the guide → Do You Have to Pay for Word? Free Ways to Write a Letter Read the guide → Excel for the Rest of Us — A Simple Household Budget, Step by Step Read the guide → Excel Formulas You'll Actually Use — Sum, Average & Percent Read the guide → Excel Lists That Sort Themselves — Addresses, Inventories & Medication Logs Read the guide → Fake "Microsoft 365 Renewal" Emails & Too-Cheap License Keys Read the guide → Filling Out a PDF Form on Your Computer — No Printer Needed Read the guide → LibreOffice — The Free Office That Opens Almost Everything Read the guide → Mailing Labels & Envelopes — Mail Merge for Holiday Cards and Club Lists Read the guide → Microsoft Publisher Has Been Retired — Rescuing Old Newsletters & Flyers Read the guide → Office 2016, 2019 & 2021 After Support Ends — Keep, Upgrade or Switch? Read the guide → Pages, Numbers & Keynote — Apple's Free Office Apps Read the guide → Printing an Excel Sheet on One Page (and Other Print Headaches) Read the guide → Protected View, Read-Only & "Enable Editing" — What the Yellow Bar Means Read the guide → Sharing a Microsoft 365 Family Plan with Kids, Parents & Grandkids Read the guide → Which Microsoft 365 Plan Do You Really Need? Read the guide → Word for Everyday Letters — Fonts, Margins & Printing Without a Fight Read the guide → Word to PDF and Back Again — Converting Without Wrecking the Layout Read the guide →

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