Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
We had a question come up yesterday in one of our Teams workspaces… was it possible to turn off the GIF animations that can be added to Teams chats and channels to make things less distracting? My co-worker Eydie found the solution for that, and it’s surprisingly easy. Here’s how…
If you’ve been using Skype, you’re probably familiar with the ability to group your Skype contacts into various contact groups to help you keep people organized. However, in Microsoft Teams chat, it’s a bit more hidden. Here’s how to create contact groups in Microsoft Teams, and how to add people to them.
Microsoft does a great job in providing a single dashboard of Service Health in their Microsoft 365 Admin Center. There’s a new addition that makes it even better… You can now filter the issues to only show information that’s applicable to you in your role as a Microsoft 365 administrator. Here’s how that works…
When you’re looking at all the Channels in a Microsoft Teams workspace, you may struggle to figure out what they’re for, who the members are, and what’s been done of late. Now you can find all that out in the Channel Information Panel. Here’s how that works…
So if you’ve been working with SharePoint Online for any length of time, you are used to views that show list data, but they don’t normally have any visual indicators that make important data stand out (unless you’re willing to dive into JSON formatting). However, now there are a number of out-of-the-box, menu-driven ways to make your important data stand out. Here’s some examples…
If you use Hub sites in your SharePoint Online environment, you have probably at some point have wished you could get statistics that show numbers across all the sites attached to a particular Hub site. Now you can with the cumulative analytics in the Site Usage page for your Hub site. Here’s how it looks…
A couple of weeks ago, my coworker Sandra was using the Windows 10 calculator like usual. However, she decided to click the menu in the upper left corner, and was amazed at all the options she never knew about. I too was suitably amazed, and thought this would make a great tip… here’s just a sampling of what it can do…
If you’re like me, you tend to “bookmark” a lot of things to save for later. Of course, whether you actually get back to reading them is a different matter… The Saved For Later web part is a great way to flag content for later reading, and have it displayed back to you in an easy to read manner. Here’s how it works…
If you use a personal email client like Gmail, you’re probably used to seeing suggested wording appear as you’re typing away. Now Outlook on the Web has the same type-ahead suggestion feature! Here’s what it looks like…
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