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…
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 255
Episode 255 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Jennifer Mason, Tamara Bredemus, and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
Retirement of Loop Component Rendering in Word for the Web
Next up in the on-going list of Microsoft retirements… this one is a change to how Loop components are rendered in Word for the Web. Following is the Microsoft announcement…
Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams is being retired
This is a change that makes me a bit sad. The Speaker Coach feature in Microsoft Teams is being retired and will no longer be available by late August, 2025. Apparently this was a Preview feature (I didn’t realize that), and Microsoft has decided not to move the function to general availability…
Exporting Word 97-2003 document files in OneNote for Windows desktop is being retired
Nearly 30 years after it first came out, the Word 97-2003 Document format (*.doc) will no longer be an option when you export a OneNote page as of July 28th, 2025. Here’s what that will look like…
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 254
Episode 254 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Tamara Bredemus and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 253
Episode 253 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Tamara Bredemus and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
Seeing the Time To Read on SharePoint News posts
This new SharePoint News feature is one I really like… When you create a new SharePoint News post, the page will calculate the time it takes to read, presenting you with a read time number in the title bar of the article. Here’s what it looks like and how to turn it off if you want…
Using Design Ideas for a Quick Links web part
I *love* tips that show how to get design help when building SharePoint pages. I have very little sense of design, so my pages can look pretty blah… especially around Quick Links web parts. But using the Design Ideas feature for that web part, you can get some really attractive options that break away from the traditional look and feel. Here’s how that works and looks…
One Minute Office Magic 