Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
My colleague Sandra got a nice surprise today… she got a pop-up in her web-based Outlook calendar that pointed her to a new feature… adding time zones! This is a really cool feature for those of us who work and live in more than one time zone. Here’s how it works…
Writing an email in a business environment is vastly different than jotting off a quick note to your best friend about having lunch next week. You need to keep many things in mind these days, such as inclusiveness, formality, and clarity. In order to help you out, you can use Microsoft Editor in Outlook on the Web to get grammar suggestions and hints that can make your writing better suited to your style and environment. Here’s how it works…
he Read Aloud feature in the Outlook client is a good way for people with vision issues to get through an email without having to visually read it. Here’s how that feature works…
id you know you can drag and drop an email from Outlook into a SharePoint document library? This is a feature I really like, as it allows me to store relevant emails in a document library that is being used as a project repository. Here’s how it works…
Tamara Bredemus wandered into my office yesterday and said “here’s a tip you might want to use…”, and she was right! You can ask the Tell Me feature in Microsoft Office to show you how to accomplish tasks without having to figure out the exact search terms or find the menu options. Here’s how it works…
The web-based version of Outlook has a new feature that is great for people who live in their calendar… it’s called the Calendar Board. This is a new calendar format that allows you to add various widgets that live next to your calendar, and it potentially means you’ll need to do less switching between other parts of Outlook. Here’s how it works…
I am *not* a great thumb typer, so I don’t tend to do a lot of typing on my iPhone when it comes to using mobile offerings in Microsoft 365. However, the ability to dictate Outlook emails on my iPhone and iPad makes it much more likely that I’ll send emails while I’m away from my laptop. Here’s how it works…
While I prefer to write emails and documents using my keyboard, there are some people who prefer (or need) to use voice dictation to get “words on paper.” Fortunately, there’s a Dictate feature in Word and Outlook for Windows that makes that easy. Here’s how it works…
This just popped up in Outlook on the Web for us today, and it’s rather cool! Now when you’re using the Outlook calendar on the web, you get a Suggested times view within the invite, and you don’t even have to go to the Scheduling Assistant! Here’s how it works…
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