Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
With all the email we get daily, it would be nice to have Outlook separate email into categories of what’s important and what may be less important using machine learning. Based on a recent update to Outlook 2016, we now have that with the Focused Inbox. Here’s how it works…
With the amount of work we do on a daily basis, it’s often hard to remember just exactly where you updated or changed information. You know you did it in the last couple of days, but you can’t specifically remember where it was done.
If you’re using OneNote to store information, OneNote makes it easy to find everything you changed and where exactly it was updated using the Recent Edits feature. Here’s how that works…
Today’s tip is a bit lighter in nature, as I learned something this week which I had never even heard, much less knew about. Have you ever written an email or a Skype message that was something along the lines of “What do you think you are doing?!?!?!” That series of snarky question marks and exclamation points, when combined, are often referred to as interrobangs.
One of the new features when using Outlook is that you can @mention someone’s name in the body of the email, and it will automagically put that name into the To field of the email so you don’t forget to send it to them. Here’s how that works…
Obviously, you can have a multitude of rows and columns in an Excel spreadsheet spread out over numerous worksheets. However, if you want to print out just part of the information, you may think you have to print out everything just to get the part you want. In reality, you can set the Print Area of your spreadsheet to only print out the area that you need, saving paper and time in the process. Here’s how you do that…
We’ve all been in PowerPoint meetings where the presenter is projecting onto a screen and using the Presenter view to see the current slide and the next one coming up. Someone asks a question, and they want to show a different slide to address the point. So, they drop out of presenter mode or they start rapidly scrolling through the upcoming slides (and then back to the original slide) to find what they want. It gets the job done, but it doesn’t look very professional. Here’s a way to skip to a slide of your choice without the audience getting vertigo from all the scrolling…
Haven’t you wished at times that your computer could just read a Word document to you so you could… “multi-task” while getting the document content? Or, in a more realistic scenario, you have vision issues and having the document read to you would be more accessible? Actually, there *is* a way to make that happen. Here’s how…
In today’s attention-deficit world, you sometimes need to take an extra step to make things pop in a presentation. In today’s tip, I share how to fill text in a PowerPoint slide with pictures for that extra bit of pizazz…
There are times when you want to create distribution lists that serve your organization as a whole. But there are also instances when you want a personal contact list that only affects you and the people you want to reach on a regular basis. This is how you set one up in Outlook…
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