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Microsoft brings 8,000 royalty-free images and icons to Office for Windows users

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Microsoft Office stock pictures

Microsoft yesterday released the new Version 2004 update (Build 12730.20024) for Office for Windows Desktop Insiders in the Fast Ring. This new update brings high quality, curated images, stickers, and icons to Office 365 subscribers. Over 8,000 royalty-free images and icons will be available in Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint apps for users. In the coming months, Microsoft will be adding more premium content for Office 365 subscribers. Here’s how this feature works: Select Insert > Pictures > Stock Images. Select the content type you want to explore: Stock Images, Cutout People, Icons, or Stickers. Enter some keywords in the Search box.…

Microsoft’s new Office icons are part of a bigger design overhaul

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Microsoft is modernizing its Office icons as part of a broader focus on design for its various Office apps. It’s the first time the Office icons have changed in five years, and they’re designed to be more simple and modern to span across multiple devices and platforms. Office now exists on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, and Microsoft has been building a single core codebase to make rapid monthly improvements to the apps. These icons are designed to reflect how Office has changed recently, with new AI features, more collaborative…

Microsoft Announces Office 2016 Will Arrive September 22

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Microsoft announced this morning the official launch date for the long-anticipated new version of Microsoft Office: Office 2016 will be broadly available starting on September 22, the company says. Meanwhile, Office Customers with volume licensing agreements will be able to download the software on October 1st. The updated version of Office includes a number of new features for desktop customers, including the ability to co-edit documents at the same time, sync files to OneDrive in the cloud, and more. Alongside the announcement of the launch date, Microsoft noted a few…

Office apps for Android phones are now available

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There is no denying that Android is the world’s most popular mobile phone operating system with Google saying last year that on any given thirty-day rolling period there are more than a billion users of the OS. So when you are working to get your productivity software into the hands of a billion users, you can’t ignore the OS. Microsoft has already released and today they are taking it one step further with Office apps for the phone as well. If you want to try these apps out, you will…

Mime type for Microsoft Office 2007-2010

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.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet.xltx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template.potx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template.ppsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow.pptx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation.sldx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slide.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.dotx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template.xlam application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12.xlsb application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12

Switch to dark mode automatically on Windows

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switch to dark mode

In this post, I talk about to switch to dark mode automatically on Windows. Why? Although Windows 11 comes with an option to switch between the light and dark modes, it’s a manual process that requires several steps. Auto Dark Mode X is an open-source application that allows you to configure a schedule to switch between the light and dark modes (and vice versa) automatically. Furthermore, the application also includes exceptions to prevent the switch while you are gaming or running on battery. You can even specify whether apps, including…

How to Export Data to Excel in Blazor

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In this new post, I’m going to show how to export data to Excel in Blazor WebAssembly or Server. Creating and exporting data to Excel file is one of the frequently used feature in web apps. First, for creating an export in Excel, I will use a free library that is a NuGet package. ClosedXML is a .NET library for reading, manipulating and writing Excel 2007+ (.xlsx, .xlsm) files. It aims to provide an intuitive and user-friendly interface to dealing with the underlying OpenXML API. So, you can download the full source…

Next generation of Windows is here

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Next generation of Windows is here

Microsoft has created an event for showing the next generation of Windows is (almost) here on June 24th. Here the event to add to your calendar. After teasing the next generation of Windows during Build last week, Microsoft announced that it’ll officially unveil the new version of its operating system on June 24th at 11AM Eastern. The company has begun sending out invites to media. It’s revealed that CEO Satya Nadella and chief product officer Panos Panay will be headlining the event. The promise at Build At Build, Nadella said he’s been testing the…

Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

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When I read that Microsoft released open-sources GW-BASIC, I couldn’t resist to take a look at the code on GitHub. I spent my childhood to play with GW-BASIC and Clipper (do you remember that?) These sources, as clearly stated in the repo’s readme, are the 8088 assembly language sources from 10th Feb 1983, and are being open-sourced for historical reference and educational purposes. This means we will not be accepting PRs that modify the source in any way. A little historical context The GW-BASIC source code being published is dated Feb 10th…