Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
Microsoft embraces the fact that your work environment is flexible and can change with little notice. There’s a new feature for your Microsoft calendar in Outlook (currently the web-based version) that allows you to let people know your work hours and locations even though they may be different for every day of the week. Here’s how that works…
If you’re like me, you often screen share and demo things for your customers. But when it comes to showing off things like my calendar, there are times when I’d rather not show things that I have marked as private. I recently learned you can filter your calendar display on Outlook for the web. Here’s how that looks…
Have you ever had a rather complex meeting to set up, complete with a number of attendees and a lot of information in the body of the invite? And then, much to your dismay, you have to set up the same meeting again on a different day, complete with all the work it took you to get the first one set up? Did you know there’s a Duplicate Event option for the calendar in Outlook on the web? Here’s how that works…
Trying to find common meeting times when scheduling a meeting with a lot of people can be a hassle, with calls going back and forth between potential attendees. You can make it easier by allowing people to vote for selected times using the Scheduling Poll option. Here’s how it works…
Email Reactions is a new feature (in Outlook on the Web) that allows you to quickly give feedback on an email without doing a reply or reply to all… think of it as similar to the “Like” feature on Facebook. Here’s how it works…
One of the difficult things to get used to when trying to convert over to Outlook on the Web (from the Outlook client) is that all the various options, buttons, and settings are in different places. Microsoft is trying to make that easier by adding a new ribbon bar to Outlook on the web. This brings it closer to the user experience you’d find in the Outlook client. Here’s how that works…
It’s not uncommon to copy text from some source into an email, and you find that it’s copied over all the formatting that was part of the source material. You can try various techniques to remove the formatting before you paste it, but you can also remove the formatting once it’s in your email, Word document, or PowerPoint slide. Here’s how to make that happen…
I got the latest changes in the Outlook client the other day, and I saw a new button and toggle in the upper-right corner for Coming Soon and Try It Now. Of course, I had to click on those, and here’s what I found…
Have you ever had to set up a series of meetings with the same information, and you have to enter the information over and over and over? My wife Tamara showed me a cool feature I never noticed before that works on the calendar in Outlook on the Web… Duplicate Event! Here’s how it works…
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