Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
Now that many of us are working from home and attending seemingly endless online meetings, the issue of background noise has become a common battle. Dogs, voices, kids, and various other sounds make it into the meeting, and it’s often hard to filter it out short of going on mute. Now Microsoft Teams has a Noise Suppression setting that you can use to have a more automated approach to suppressing your background noise. Here’s how it works…
I’ll admit it… I get frustrated when someone is running a meeting, the ending time is quickly approaching, and they seem oblivious to the clock. Microsoft Teams meetings now help address that a bit by providing End Of Meeting Notifications at the five minute mark. Here’s how it works…
Have you ever been making updates in a SharePoint Online list using Grid View, and you notice that you incorrectly updated a field that’s updated the list item… or worse, deleted something that shouldn’t have been deleted? Well, you’ll love the new Undo/Redo feature in SharePoint Online lists. Here’s how it works…
One of the important things to do when you join a Microsoft Teams meeting is make sure your video and audio options are set properly based on your current environment. It used to be that you’d have to join the meeting first, and then look for the options to fix everything (like muting yourself or turning on your video). Now there’s a new pre-meeting joining experience to let you set those before you enter the meeting. Here’s how it works…
The My Feed web part for SharePoint Online pages is a great way to personalize a site such that people only see the most relevant content that they have access to. This is how it works…
As part of the changes for Microsoft Lists, there’s been a refresh on how you create new lists in SharePoint Online. One of the more interesting changes is a set of pre-defined templates you can use to get started on a new list. It’s a great starting point for building out a list that fits your needs. Here’s how it works…
There are a number of places where you end up storing tasks and to-do items throughout Microsoft 365. Microsoft Teams has made it a bit easier to keep track of your items with a feature called Tasks by Planner and To Do. This consolidates your To Do tasks and your Planner tasks in one place for easy reference. Here’s how it works…
One frustration I’ve had with Microsoft Teams is that it has a tendency to change my status from Busy (or whatever I have it set to) to Away if I’m not interacting with Teams every five minutes. I would prefer that Teams either leaves my status as I set it, or at least gave me the ability to set some time frame longer than five minutes. And now my wish came true! Teams now allows you to set a duration for your status. Here’s how it works…
One thing I see frequently in department web sites is some sort of organization chart so that people know who the boss is and who all reports to them. This can be a PDF document, a Visio diagram, or some other cobbled-together image. Now you can add an org chart to your site using the Org Chart web part in SharePoint Online, and it’ll always be up-to-date! Here’s how it works…
