Closing original emails in Outlook when replying or forwarding…

As I get older, I find that my mind is much more… “efficient” when it comes to “erasing” short-term memory… such as “why did I have this particular email open on my screen, and did I already respond to it?” Well, I just saw an option in Outlook that closes the original email when you do a Reply or Forward, eliminating all the screen clutter. Here’s how it works…

Changing an Excel column of text numbers to actual numbers in a couple of clicks

I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Excel. I know it’s very powerful, but I really don’t know how to use it beyond the very basics. Today was one of those instances where I had a column of “numbers” in a spreadsheet that I wanted to sort, but Excel thought they were text strings. I wasn’t sure how to get Excel to truly treat them as numbers until I found this cool trick…

Navigating forward and backwards in Teams

Since I’ve started to use Microsoft Teams, I’ve been a bit frustrated when it comes to getting back to the place where I was at when I clicked a different icon or link. However, I completely missed the Forward and Back navigation arrows in the upper left corner of the Teams client. Here’s how they work…