Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
I will admit I used to make fun of Microsoft’s ability to do real-time captioning, as the results tended to be… “entertaining”. But a lot has changed since then, and now Live Captioning in Microsoft Teams meetings works pretty well, considering how hard it is to adapt to voices and accents. Here’s how it works…
If you want to store an image as part of a SharePoint Online list or library item, you can now do that! Microsoft has added a new Image column type, and here’s how it works…
While Microsoft Forms is best used when your recipients are online, there are times when you need to provide a copy of the form to someone who doesn’t have access to your environment. Microsoft Forms accommodates that with the Print Form feature. Here’s how it works…
There’s nothing quite as frustrating in surveys when you answer a series of questions and click Next… and more Next… and more Next… and you have no idea when it’s all going to end. Now in Microsoft Forms, you have the ability to add a Responder Progress Bar so that your responders have hope that it’ll all end soon… Here’s how it works..
If you’re fortunate enough to work with a large-screen monitor, you may not have much of a problem with how much data displays in a SharePoint list. But if you’re on a laptop with a smaller screen, you might find that screen real estate is in short supply. You can gain a bit of that real estate back by using the Expand/Collapse button in SharePoint lists. Here’s how that works…
We had a question come up yesterday in one of our Teams workspaces… was it possible to turn off the GIF animations that can be added to Teams chats and channels to make things less distracting? My co-worker Eydie found the solution for that, and it’s surprisingly easy. Here’s how…
If you’ve been using Skype, you’re probably familiar with the ability to group your Skype contacts into various contact groups to help you keep people organized. However, in Microsoft Teams chat, it’s a bit more hidden. Here’s how to create contact groups in Microsoft Teams, and how to add people to them.
Microsoft does a great job in providing a single dashboard of Service Health in their Microsoft 365 Admin Center. There’s a new addition that makes it even better… You can now filter the issues to only show information that’s applicable to you in your role as a Microsoft 365 administrator. Here’s how that works…
When you’re looking at all the Channels in a Microsoft Teams workspace, you may struggle to figure out what they’re for, who the members are, and what’s been done of late. Now you can find all that out in the Channel Information Panel. Here’s how that works…
