Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
Things are constantly being updated in the Microsoft Copilot offering, and it’s not unusual to see Microsoft retire or alter specific features as time progresses. In this retirement, Microsoft is removing some of the Copilot menu options when you are looking at the File Explorer menu, and replacing it with a single Ask Copilot option. Here’s what that looks like…
One of the Outlook features that I used to like was the ability to have Copilot automatically prioritize my inbox. It would learn as it went along, and you’d find new emails getting up or down arrows as it attempted to help manage new emails. Unfortunately, Microsoft has decided to retire that feature, so you won’t be seeing it any longer. Here’s the Microsoft messaging on the retirement…
Episode 300 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Tamara Bredemus and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
When trying to use Copilot in OneNote in the not-too-distant past, I found that the results were less-than-helpful. It seemed like the options were limited, and it had issues trying to find the content I was trying to focus on. I decided to give it another try today, and it is SO much better. Here’s a sample of what I was able to do…
Episode 299 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Tamara Bredemus, Matthew Ruderman, and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
If you’re in a Microsoft Teams chat with a person or a group, you may want to use Copilot to get more context on what someone said or what was discussed. You can do that by using the Ask Copilot option on the highlighted content. Here’s how that works…
We’ve all had the experience of copying something from a web page, pasting it into a Word document or OneNote using CTRL-V, and the formatting is all messed up compared to the existing formatting. Yes, you can right-click and hope to see the Paste Option feature to paste as plain text, but here’s an easier way to do that… use the CTRL+SHIFT+V keyboard shortcut. Here’s how that works…
Have you ever had a large number of windows and applications open on your Windows desktop, and you’d really like to hide them all to get back to your clean desktop? You can do that with a Windows shortcut… Windows Key + D.
This Excel feature came to my attention a couple of weeks ago, and I had never heard of it. It’s called Watch Window and it makes it easy to keep an eye on a particular cell without having to scroll all over the place to see changed values. Here’s how it works…
