Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
If you’re like me, you often screen share and demo things for your customers. But when it comes to showing off things like my calendar, there are times when I’d rather not show things that I have marked as private. I recently learned you can filter your calendar display on Outlook for the web. Here’s how that looks…
My colleague Sandra got a nice surprise today… she got a pop-up in her web-based Outlook calendar that pointed her to a new feature… adding time zones! This is a really cool feature for those of us who work and live in more than one time zone. Here’s how it works…
This just popped up in Outlook on the Web for us today, and it’s rather cool! Now when you’re using the Outlook calendar on the web, you get a Suggested times view within the invite, and you don’t even have to go to the Scheduling Assistant! Here’s how it works…
Today my team was on a meeting (in Microsoft Teams, of course), and someone clicked on the calendar icon to show us the new format. It’s pretty awesome, and it’s closer to being something that I could actually live in now…
In the latest version of the Outlook client, there’s a feature that allows you to set the default for meetings to end five or ten minutes early to give you time to get to your next meeting. Here’s how that works…
I find it extremely frustrating when someone books an hour for a meeting by default, but yet they only have about 10 minutes of material they need to cover. Instead of playing havoc with your (and others) calendar, you can set your default meeting length to something shorter. Here’s how…
One of my colleagues pointed out a really cool trick for quickly adding all the calendars of your team members to your Outlook client without having to look each one up individually.
It’s a pretty safe bet these days that we’re all swamped with meetings on our calendars, and we need a reminder when the next meeting is due to start. Here’s how to set up Reminders on your calendar entries (both for yourself and for others you invite to the meeting), as well as how to hit the Snooze button on the alarm.
How to save a calendar entry in an iCalendar (.ics) format.
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