Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
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…
As you might have noticed, Microsoft Teams has a new Calendar experience that you’ve been able to toggle on and off. The new experience is designed to more closely mirror your Calendar experience in Outlook. Microsoft announced this morning that they will be removing the toggle switch in September, and at that point everyone will be in the new experience. Here’s the Microsoft announcement wording:
Here’s a new one I just learned about today… When entering data into an Excel table, I was used to just adding data to the cell, tabbing to the next cell, and repeating until I was done. If the table required horizontal scrolling, it could get a bit cumbersome. But then I learned you can use the built-in Data Entry Form in Excel to enter that data. Here’s how that works…
Not being an Excel guru (or maybe even a novice!), I have run into issues before where I have data in a cell and I want to have a line break within the cell to continue typing. However, when I hit Enter, it goes to the next cell. I finally learned how to keep that line break in the same cell, and I’ll share it with you now… and also help myself to reinforce that skill. 🙂 Here’s how it works…
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