Designating a correct answer in a Microsoft Teams poll

Microsoft Forms is a great way to poll your audience in a Microsoft Teams meeting. Now there’s a feature that also allows you to select a correct answer in a Poll question so that people know if their answer was right. Here’s how that works…

Text formatting for questions in Microsoft Forms

In Microsoft Forms, you’ve been restricted to plain text for your questions in the form. With this newest update, you can now do basic text formatting, and it helps to make your questions stand out and look more professional (provided you don’t go overboard). Here’s how it works…

Word Clouds in Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms is a great tool for getting feedback on a various topic. However, if you’re using open text questions, you may find it difficult to get a quick read on basic trends and key words that are appearing in the responses. That’s a bit easier now using the Word Cloud Insights feature. Here’s how that works…

Editing a SharePoint page or news post in Microsoft Teams

If you have tabs in your Microsoft Teams space that show SharePoint pages or news posts, you can now edit those pages from directly within Teams. Here’s how that works…

Adding Tasks from a Microsoft Teams chat or channel

If you’re running the latest version of Microsoft Teams, there is a feature that is awesome for making sure you follow up on items that show up in a chat or a channel conversation. You can now create Tasks from chat and channel conversations, and they can show up in your Tasks app in Teams. No more missed or forgotten items! Here’s how it works…

Using @mentions in Microsoft List comments

he addition of commenting in a list item was a great addition to Microsoft Lists, but it wasn’t easy to know when a particular comment might need your attention. That’s been addressed with the ability to use @mentions in a comment so that the person mentioned will get notified. This is how that works…

Using the Calendar Board in Outlook on the Web

The web-based version of Outlook has a new feature that is great for people who live in their calendar… it’s called the Calendar Board. This is a new calendar format that allows you to add various widgets that live next to your calendar, and it potentially means you’ll need to do less switching between other parts of Outlook. Here’s how it works…

Using PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams

It used to be when you were presenting in a Microsoft Teams meeting and had a PowerPoint slide deck, you had to share your screen, start up PowerPoint, and start the presentation on your computer. Everyone saw the same thing you saw, and you didn’t have any ability to jump ahead or annotate a slide without everyone watching you stop the presentation to look for the next slide. However, now we have PowerPoint Live, which makes presenting a PowerPoint slide deck much easier. Here’s how it works…

Dictating your emails on mobile Outlook on the iPhone and iPad

I am *not* a great thumb typer, so I don’t tend to do a lot of typing on my iPhone when it comes to using mobile offerings in Microsoft 365. However, the ability to dictate Outlook emails on my iPhone and iPad makes it much more likely that I’ll send emails while I’m away from my laptop. Here’s how it works…