Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
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…
If you are getting immersed in Copilot agents (or system documentation), you are likely seeing more files that end in .md. This is the file extension for markdown files, which are text files that have content and formatting, much like you would see in an HTML file. Markdown files are used extensively in Copilot agents. While you can memorize the formatting of markdown, it’s a lot easier to be able to make changes to a markdown file and see how it will appear when displayed with the formatting. You can now do that with a side-by-side editor for markdown files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive. Here’s what it looks like…
In Microsoft Teams, you will often see file previews if someone sends you a file in a chat or conversation. However, you may wish to just see a link to that file so as to not potentially show sensitive information if you’re screen sharing. There’s a setting you can use in Microsoft Teams that will allow you to turn off file previews for your Teams client. Here’s how that works…
Once of my colleagues pinged me today and asked if I could do a tip on how to set time zones in a Teams calendar. I’ve covered it a couple of times for Outlook, but the time zone settings for the Microsoft Teams calendar are separate from the Outlook settings. So… here’s how you add additional time zones in the Teams calendar…
