Automatically formatting a mailto link in an Outlook email

As you may be aware, you can create a clickable hyperlink that opens a new email automatically addressed to someone, along with a subject link. However, sometimes it’s a bit difficult to remember the format and syntax of the link. If you’re doing this in the Outlook client, there’s an easy way to get the link created and formatted properly without having to remember any of the parameters. Here’s how that works…

Sending personal invites to a Teams channel meeting to everyone in that Team

While I love using Microsoft Teams channel meetings, it’s always been a hassle to make sure the invites get to everyone associated with that Teams space. If you have a lot of members in the Team, you either had to use a workaround to get an email address for everyone, or you had to maintain a separate distribution list. That’s now a thing of the past… you can use the Send Personal Invites feature! Here’s how that looks…

Comparing two documents in Microsoft Word

I ran across this feature from a video by Dr. Mitin Paranjape. He showed how to use the Compare feature in Microsoft Word to automatically get a comparison of two documents without having to try and pick out the changes yourself. I wasn’t even aware of this feature (it’s been there forever), but I think it might become one of my favorite ones moving forward. Here’s how it works…

Finding videos in Microsoft 365 Search

If you’re familiar with the Microsoft 365 Search bar at the top of all the M365 applications, you’ll know that once the results come back, there are filter options to narrow down the results, such as Files, Sites, People, etc. Recently, Microsoft added a new filter… Videos. This makes it easier to find that elusive video that’s stored somewhere on SharePoint or OneDrive. Here’s what that looks like…

Domain-specific searching in Microsoft Teams

While you’ve been able to get search results in Microsoft Teams, you often got WAY more results than you wanted, and it was hard to narrow things down. Now with domain-specific searching, you can narrow down your search results in much the same way you narrow down search results in Microsoft 365. Here’s how that works…