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Adding total pages in MS Word Footer

You’d think that adding Page X of Y would be easy in the latest version of MS Word [Version 2308 Build 16.0.16731.20182], but the old functionality has moved to Never Never land! No wait – that would mean I know where it is 😮 Word help tells you to insert the page then scroll to…

Reconnecting your Device to Microsoft OneDrive / Azure / Apps for Business

Doing a security review of my stuff led me to foolishly delete my main laptop because it was randomly labeled… this is how I solved it The reference did not match the reality, but it was close enough to help me solve it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/48985/re-enable-device.html My dashboard was blank, so I used the search tool to…

Highlight text differences in Excel cells

For controlled documents it is bets to allow reviewers to see the change in documents – this is managed in Word with the change tracking and review features. Unfortunately, Excel does not have this capability. After some searching I have figured out how to do this using the built in Excel Inquire add-in and some…