Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
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…
If you set up SharePoint pages on a regular basis, you are probably familiar with the SharePoint Button web part. It’s usually used to store a link that can be clicked. However, there are some new options for the button, including one to open Copilot in SharePoint. Here’s how you can set that up…
It’s one thing to be able to use Copilot to help you build a PowerPoint presentation… great graphics, appropriate wording and content, speaker notes, etc… but once it’s done, is it really going to help you deliver your message to your audience? You might want to start using the Review this presentation prompt in Copilot when you have your presentation open in the PowerPoint client. Here’s the type of information you can get from it…
Planner is a great lightweight tool for managing projects, but I’ve often heard the request that people hate having to copy and paste a ton of stuff if they want to set up a new project using the layout of an existing Planner. You can now take that existing Planner and turn it into a template for setting up new Planners. Here’s how that works…
There is a new way to pause your Microsoft Teams notifications for a set period of time. The feature is Pause notifications, and it’s very easy to set. Here’s how you do that…
For those of you who might have used the Microsoft Word Similarity Checker feature to check for potential plagiarism scenarios, I’m sorry to let you know that the feature is being retired on October 3rd, 2027. You will have about a year to figure out alternative solutions to that feature. Here’s the related Microsoft announcement…
This was originally announced about a year ago, but I thought it best to put this out as a final reminder before the October 13th deadline hits. Please read the following content if you are still using Microsoft Publisher files to get your work done…
