There’s a ton of information in the Status Bar at the bottom of your Word document, but I’m not sure you know that you can change and customize what information shows up down there. Here’s how you do that…
Using the new Tap feature in Outlook
When you’re putting together an email, sometimes you need to pull content from a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file you’ve worked on. There’s a new feature in Outlook 2016 (and in Word 2016) called Tap. This will show you slides, images, charts, objects, or any other item you have in files stored in OneDrive, and make it easy for you to add it to your email or document. Here’s how…
Excel navigation using the CTRL and arrow keys
Using the keyboard arrow keys in conjunction with the Control (CTRL) key moves you to the top, bottom, front, and back of the column and rows that you’re in. But of course, I always forget that, so I’m putting this tip out there to remind me…
Making your voice heard at Microsoft – UserVoice sites for our relevant software
Hardly a day goes by that we don’t get a question from someone along the lines of “does do , and why doesn’t it?”. Or, there’s the “when will Microsoft change to allow us to do ” question. Bottom line… we don’t know, and we have virtually no sway to influence Microsoft to change their software… but you do!
Adding a Background Blur to your video meetings in Microsoft Teams
If you’re used to having video meetings in Microsoft Teams and you’re the person on the video, I know you’ve thought about what might be showing in the background while you’re presenting. You may be neat and tidy, or you… may not be. I would be in that second category… But now in Microsoft Teams, you can use the Background Blur option to make it harder to tell just how many pizza boxes might be right behind you. Here’s how…
Finding the keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Teams
Sandra showed me a cool trick today that is useful for anyone using Microsoft Teams. You can quickly get a pop-up list of all the keyboard shortcuts that might save you a few seconds every time you do something out in Teams. Here’s how it works…
Finding the length of time you’ve spent in a Word document
Do you sometimes feel like you spent the entire day editing a single document in Word? Now, there’s a way to find out exactly how long you’ve spent in a particular document. This cool tip came to me via Hayley Milliman…
Windows 10 and Show Touch Keyboard Button
If you have a tablet device, you know that Windows 10 will show a touch keyboard on the screen when necessary. But you can also get that touch keyboard to appear on a non-tablet device for a monitor that doesn’t recognize touch. Here’s how…
Outlook Message Preview – changing the number of lines to show
If you don’t use the Preview Pane to show an email when you have it highlighted, you likely rely on the Message Preview in the Inbox folder to get some idea as to what the message might be about. If you don’t know, you can change the length of that preview from one to three lines. Here’s how to do it…
