Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
Microsoft made a change to the Quick Views area for chats. By default, those quick view categories only show up if there’s an unread item that qualifies for one of the categories. If something like @Mentions has no unread items, it doesn’t show up. However, you do have the option to change that on each of the chat quick views. Here’s how you do that…
In Microsoft Teams, you can choose to filter your chats and channels to only show unread items. However, that makes it difficult to see or get to other channels that do not have unread items. Now you can use a special icon to see chats and channels with read items so you can quickly navigate to them. Here’s how that works…
This is a classic tip that I had someone ask me about this last week. They wanted to be able to have files in their SharePoint site open in client applications instead of the browser. I was able to show them how to make a change to the Document Library settings to make that happen. Here’s how that works…
Microsoft has announced some changes for its Whiteboard product. The most important one pertains to the Microsoft Whiteboard standalone application. Here’s what’s happening…
Episode 295 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Tamara Bredemus, Jennifer Mason, and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
I just found a new option this morning in the Outlook calendar (for New Outlook and Outlook on the web) that makes it SO easy to create a .ics file for a calendar entry. If you don’t know, a .ics file is a link to add a calendar entry to your own Outlook calendar. The .ics file has been around forever, but creating one can be cumbersome. Now it’s a simple right-click option. Here’s how it works…
It seems like Microsoft likes to move the Copilot icon around in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint every few months. But a colleague of mine noticed an update that allows you three choices as to where that icon ends up. Here’s how that feature works and what it looks like…
The more that Copilot knows about you, the more helpful and detailed it can be over time. One setting in the Personalization area can help immensely… Chat History. Here’s how that works…
While the act of entering a prompt for Microsoft Copilot is easy, it’s not always so easy to come up with prompt ideas that could help you improve your work. In other words, you don’t know what you don’t know. Here’s a way to use Copilot to get ideas for prompts that might work out well for you, and give you ideas you hadn’t even considered. Here’s how that looks…
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