Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026

While Microsoft Publisher isn’t something that’s being widely used (like Word or PowerPoint), it does have a history of being a go-to piece of software for creating calendar, business cards, and newsletters over the years. Microsoft has announced that they will be decommissioning Publisher when it reaches end of life in October 2026. If you have Publisher content that you want to retain, you should read the Microsoft announcement and start taking the appropriate steps to save the content in other formats.

Using the new Threads channel format in Microsoft Teams

When you’re working in a busy Teams channel with multiple people responding to multiple posts, it can get hard to follow and/or scroll through what is going on. Microsoft has a new formatting option for Teams channels called Threads. It enables you to respond to a post with replies that do not clutter up the main screen, and appear in a separate Threads panel. Here’s how that works and looks…

Opening your Copilot prompt output in Microsoft Word

When you’re using agents like Researcher in Microsoft Copilot, you can end up with a LOT of output… pages of it. It’s likely that you’ll want to put that into a file like a Word document, but just doing copy and paste may lose some of the formatting and fidelity. An easy way to get that into Word is to use the Open In Word option. Here’s what that looks like…

Providing reference images when asking Copilot for an image

When you’re on the Copilot home page, you can prompt it to give you an image that you can use for your project or page. But as with all prompts, you may not give it enough context or information to get what you want. One way to fix that is to provide a reference image in your prompt. Here’s what that looks like…

Microsoft Lens app will retire

Microsoft has decided to retire the Microsoft Lens app that you could use with your Android and iOS devices. You might be wondering “what was Lens?” It was a really cool app that allowed you to “scan” (take pictures) of documents (like receipts) and they would be saved to the application. It was much better than having to scan receipts using a copier or printer. Here’s the information related to the retirement…