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…
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 256
Episode 256 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.
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…
PowerPoint: Deprecation of Reuse Slides button in ribbon
If you’re used to using the Reuse Slides button in PowerPoint to find slide content that you can reuse in your current slide deck, I have bad news. That button will be removed from PowerPoint by July 31st, 2025. Here’s the Microsoft announcement…
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 255
Episode 255 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Jennifer Mason, Tamara Bredemus, and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
Retirement of Loop Component Rendering in Word for the Web
Next up in the on-going list of Microsoft retirements… this one is a change to how Loop components are rendered in Word for the Web. Following is the Microsoft announcement…
Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams is being retired
This is a change that makes me a bit sad. The Speaker Coach feature in Microsoft Teams is being retired and will no longer be available by late August, 2025. Apparently this was a Preview feature (I didn’t realize that), and Microsoft has decided not to move the function to general availability…
Exporting Word 97-2003 document files in OneNote for Windows desktop is being retired
Nearly 30 years after it first came out, the Word 97-2003 Document format (*.doc) will no longer be an option when you export a OneNote page as of July 28th, 2025. Here’s what that will look like…