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…
Using your Chat History for Copilot personalization
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…
How do I find Copilot prompt ideas?
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…
New Copilot home page layout
If you are using Microsoft Copilot from the Copilot home page (https://m365.cloud.microsoft/), you’ll notice there are a few changes in the layout. It’s not major, but it’s good to know what you’ll see before you see it. 🙂
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 294
Episode 294 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.
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 293
Episode 293 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.
SharePoint News web part – New Filmstrip layout
It’s very common to use the Top Story layout in a News web part on a SharePoint page… but now you have a new option: the Filmstrip layout. Here’s how you select it and what it looks like…
Microsoft Teams: Test microphone and speaker before joining a meeting
Ah, yes… in virtually every Teams meeting, you will hear this phrase: “Can you hear me?” Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way you could test your microphone and speakers before you actually join a meeting? Now you can! Here’s how that looks and works…
Lock-free coauthoring in Microsoft Word
No doubt you’ve taken advantage of coauthoring in the various Microsoft 365 offerings like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. However, you have probably also run into the locking limitations, such as only a single person being allowed in a Word paragraph at a time. Microsoft has fixed that with lock-free coauthoring in Microsoft Word. Here’s what that looks like…