Depending on how you prefer to work, you might want to consolidate all your system notifications into the Windows notification area (the notification icon in the Windows task bar). Now Microsoft Teams will allow you to set your notifications to go to that area instead of showing up in Teams. Here’s how that works…
Category: Windows 10
Windows 10 Calculator – It’s not your grandfather’s calculator any more
A couple of weeks ago, my coworker Sandra was using the Windows 10 calculator like usual. However, she decided to click the menu in the upper left corner, and was amazed at all the options she never knew about. I too was suitably amazed, and thought this would make a great tip… here’s just a sampling of what it can do…
Windows 10 and Show Touch Keyboard Button
If you have a tablet device, you know that Windows 10 will show a touch keyboard on the screen when necessary. But you can also get that touch keyboard to appear on a non-tablet device for a monitor that doesn’t recognize touch. Here’s how…
Getting a pop-up emoticon panel in Windows 10
Today we have a fun tip that I stumbled across on Twitter from one of my colleagues. It involves getting an emoticon panel in Windows 10 that can be used in a number of the software packages that you use. Here’s what you do…
Windows 10 behavior when copying duplicate files
So while this isn’t technically an Office software tip, it is something you’ll see if you’re trying to copy Microsoft Office (or any other) files from one place to another if you’re on Windows 10.
It used to be if you were trying to copy a file that was a duplicate of one in the destination location, you got a single screen that gave you the option to keep the original, copy over the new version, or keep both (and add a number at the end of the duplicated file being copied). Now that is split up in two screens.