Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
If you are looking at a large document in the browser-based version of Microsoft Word, you might feel a bit overwhelmed when it comes to getting an overall understanding of what it contains. Copilot can help with a Summary at the top of the document, along with a variety of options to tailor your overview to what you need. Here’s what that looks like…
I ran across this cool tip the other day… You probably know some basic keyboard shortcuts that you use in Microsoft Word, but have you ever seen the entire list of keyboard shortcuts that work in Word? Using this tip, you can easily get a list of all of them. Here’s how that works…
I did a tip on time zones in Outlook calendars back in 2022 when the feature first came out, but I wanted to revisit it given how certain work environments have changed. When you’re using the Outlook calendar (in the browser, New Outlook, or classic Outlook), you can show multiple time zones to the left of the time slots. While it’s easy to make one- or two-hour time zone shifts in your head, it’s a lot harder if your team is off-shore and scattered in different countries. Using this feature can be a lifesaver when it comes to knowing if and when to schedule a meeting for a certain time. Here’s how that works…
We all love to use emojis as reactions to a message in a chat or channel. But sometimes, a single reaction doesn’t quite explain your true feelings about something. 🙂 Now, you can put multiple emojis on a message to get your *real* message across. Here’s how that works…
With all the chats and channels you are part of in Microsoft Teams, you may have a lot of trouble trying to flag individual items you want to come back to. You can leave them as Unread, but that’s rather cumbersome. Now you can mark an individual message with the Saved indicator, and then navigate to all the items you have saved. Very convenient! Here’s how that works…
You may have noticed that starting around the first of July, Outlook (in the browser and New Outlook) stopped giving you type-ahead suggestions as you were typing. Looking into that, I found that Microsoft rolled out a change that turned that feature off, even if you already had it turned on. The reasoning was to “improve user control and reduce unintended suggestions.” Unfortunately, I personally liked it. Here’s how to turn it back on so that the text predictions show up again…
Episode 260 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.
There are certain situations where you want to share a video with an audience so they can view it, but you don’t want them to be able to download or copy it. Now you can do that with the sharing option of Can view, but not download. Here’s how that works…
One of my colleagues in the Microsoft 365 world posted this on his blog today, and it makes me so happy… When you are going to a SharePoint site, often the Settings Gear icon in the upper-right corner takes 5 to 10 seconds to load. That is a pain when you really just want to get to permissions or site contents. But with this little hack, you can get the gear to show up instantly with a single click. Here’s how that works…
One Minute Office Magic 