Using the Copilot OneDrive life item icon to get file information

When you’re scrolling through your OneDrive and you see a file that looks interesting, you may not be thrilled to have to dig through the document manually to figure out what it’s talking about. But by using the Copilot icon on the document library line item, you can get summaries, FAQs, and audio overviews. Here’s how that works…

Extracting text from an image using Copilot

It’s not uncommon that you have a picture of something that includes text, and you really want to be able to use that text in an email or document. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the way to go, but do you have any software to do that? You do if you have Copilot! Here’s how that works…

 Sharing files along with a Copilot summary

SharePoint and OneDrive make it really easy to share files with others, but by default the recipient gets an email with the file link, and that’s about it. Wouldn’t it be nice to give them a summary of what’s in the file when they get that link email? With Copilot, it’s really simple. Here’s how that works…

Adding Outlook Folders to your Favorites area

In Outlook, you likely have a number of folders that you use frequently. However, they might be buried somewhere in your navigation structure, and it takes some hunting to find them. You might want to consider flagging those folders as Favorites so they end up at the top of your navigation area. Here’s how that works…

Combining Excel columns with the ToCol function

Tamara (my wife) called me into her office yesterday to share this tip she just learned, and it’s pretty cool. Have you ever had multiple columns in Excel that you wanted to combine into a single column without copying and pasting? You can do that with the ToCol (To Column) function. Here’s how that works…

Changing your default emojis in Teams

This tip comes to you via Sandra’s significant other… spousal tips are awesome! Did you know that you can change the default emojis that appear when you click on a chat message in Microsoft Teams? I certainly didn’t… and neither did Sandra. 🙂 Here’s how you can set the default five emojis that you can easily access when you’re reacting to a chat message…