#Microsoft Office
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Microsoft Offers Free Office Apps and Copilot for Students for 3 Months
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Microsoft is offering a 3-month free trial of Microsoft 365 Personal and Copilot to college students in the US. It brings access to desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and Copilot.

Microsoft could potentially redesign its Office suite icons with a fresh coat of new paint. As per a report, Microsoft sent an email survey asking users to participate in the same to win gift cards. The new icons look more rounded and polished, and we might see them across apps like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Windows Security.

This Microsoft Word Glitch Erases Documents Instead of Saving Them
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A bug has been discovered in Microsoft 365 version 2409 that auto-deletes Word documents while saving. It affects those files that have capitalized DOCX file extension or include "#" in the file name. By the way, you can restore the deleted Word document from the Recycle Bin. And rename the file extension to avoid the bug for now.

This Guy Made a Literal CPU in Microsoft Excel with 16-Bit, 3Hz Speed, and 128KB RAM
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One incredibly skilled YouTuber called Inkbox embarked upon the journey to create the concept of a CPU inside of Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet program. The result is super impressive, and the creator even made EXCEL-ASM 16 which is a custom assembly language to write programs for this Excel-based CPU. The specs are 16-bit, 2-3Hz speed, and 128KB RAM. He also made a 128x128 16-color display on the Excel program to show output.
























