PowerPoint: Deprecation of Reuse Slides button in ribbon

If you’re used to using the Reuse Slides button in PowerPoint to find slide content that you can reuse in your current slide deck, I have bad news. That button will be removed from PowerPoint by July 31st, 2025. Here’s the Microsoft announcement…

Using the Align feature in Microsoft PowerPoint (and Word)

Have you ever had a number of images on a slide, and you’ve struggled to align them horizontally (or vertically)? You’ve spent way too much time moving things pixel by pixel, and then you wonder if it’s actually perfect? You can make that a lot easier by using the Align feature in PowerPoint (and it’s also available in Word). Thanks to Sandra for sharing this with me. Here’s how it works and looks…

Using Copilot to generate a PowerPoint presentation

Have you ever been tasked with generating a presentation about some topic, and you are experiencing a severe case of creative writer’s block? You can use Copilot in PowerPoint to help generate a solid starting point, complete with content, speaking notes, and images. Here’s how that works…

Removing text formatting in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint

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…

Using the Tell Me feature in Microsoft Office

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…

Using PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams

It used to be when you were presenting in a Microsoft Teams meeting and had a PowerPoint slide deck, you had to share your screen, start up PowerPoint, and start the presentation on your computer. Everyone saw the same thing you saw, and you didn’t have any ability to jump ahead or annotate a slide without everyone watching you stop the presentation to look for the next slide. However, now we have PowerPoint Live, which makes presenting a PowerPoint slide deck much easier. Here’s how it works…

Generating a PowerPoint presentation from a Word document

OK… this blew my mind this morning. Joanne C Klein tweeted about the new Export to PowerPoint preview feature in Word on the Web. I gave it a try, and it’s pretty impressive! Here’s how it works…

Getting notifications when adding comments to an Office file

Using the Comments feature in Office is a great way to collaborate on a file, and to provide additional context and information. However, it’s entirely possible that someone may add a comment where your input would be valuable, and you might never see it. Now Office files will sent out a notification if your name is mentioned using the @ symbol. Here’s how that works…

My slides from the Minnesota SharePoint User Group presentation on Office 365 Productivity Tips