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How to Close Microsoft Teams Completely When You Close the App

When you close Microsoft Teams, it continues to run in the background, taking up resources and sending you notifications. But change a single setting and closing the application will actually stop it. Here’s how to quit Micro…

Rob Woodgate May 16th

How to Use Outline View in Microsoft Word

Outlines are useful for creating business documents, lengthy tutorials, and even books. With Microsoft Word, you can use outline view for laying your major points in a structured format.

Sandy Writtenhouse May 13th

How to Reduce (and Disable) Background Noise in Microsoft Teams

During a Microsoft Teams meeting with your colleagues, any background noise can be distracting. The Teams desktop app for Windows 10 provides an option to reduce background noise and helps to keep participants focused on thei…

Samir Makwana May 12th

How to Use the Automatic Data Type Tool in Microsoft Excel

Add details to your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for cities, foods, music, plants, and more. With the data type tool, there’s no need to open your web browser. Just type in a keyword and go!

Sandy Writtenhouse May 11th

How to Quickly Remove All Images from a Word Document

If you need to quickly remove all the images and graphics from a Microsoft Word document, it’s easy to use a built-in option to delete them all at once. Here’s how to do it.

Mahesh Makvana May 10th

How to Remove Empty Lines from a Word Document

Manually removing extra blank lines from a Microsoft Word document is tedious. Luckily, a feature built into Word can remove all empty lines at once. Here’s how to do it.

Mahesh Makvana May 7th

How to Create an Automatic Outline in Microsoft Excel

It can be tough to organize a lengthy spreadsheet to make your data easier to read. Microsoft Excel offers a useful grouping feature to summarize data using an automatic outline. Here’s how it’s done.

Sandy Writtenhouse May 6th

How to Check How Much OneDrive Storage You Have Left

Microsoft OneDrive is a popular cloud storage service that boasts deep integration with Windows 10. If you’re a OneDrive user, you probably want to keep tabs on how much storage you’re using. We’ll show you how to check….

Joe Fedewa May 4th

How to Automatically Save Microsoft Word Documents to OneDrive

Some of our most painful Microsoft Word memories involve losing hours of work because we forgot to save our documents. You no longer need to worry about that because Word lets you automatically save documents to Microsoft One…

Pranay Parab May 3rd

How to Embed Pinterest Pins in OneNote or Word for Web

Keeping track of your Pinterest pins for ideas, hobbies, or visual references has never been easier. Since February 2021, you can now embed Pinterest pins in OneNote notebooks or online Word documents. Here’s how….

Sandy Writtenhouse Apr 25th

How to Change the Background in Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Planner is a useful work manager, but out of the box, it’s very plain and impersonal. Give your plans a little more life and color by adding a background from Microsoft’s selection of Designer-chosen images….

Rob Woodgate Apr 21st

What Are Microsoft Teams Meeting Notes, and How Do You Use Them?

Meeting notes are most useful when they’re written during a meeting and easy to find afterward. Microsoft Teams lets you write notes during a meeting and access them from the meeting appointment at any time in the future….

Rob Woodgate Apr 19th

How to Use the LinkedIn Resume Assistant in Microsoft Word

Resumes are important for job seekers but can also be tough to create. If you’d like extra help with which skills to include or how to best write your work experience, check out the LinkedIn Resume Assistant in Microsoft Word…

Sandy Writtenhouse Apr 16th

How to Open Previously Visited Locations in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams can quickly become filled with teams, channels, tabs, chats, and meetings. Remembering where you saw something can be tricky, so there is a dedicated, clickable list of the last 12 places you visited….

Rob Woodgate Apr 15th

How to Pin a File in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams helps you manage your documents by providing a Files tab in every channel. Keep your critical files visible to the team at all times by pinning them to the top of this Files tab.

Rob Woodgate Apr 13th

How to Enable Dark Mode in Microsoft Teams

Like many other modern applications, Microsoft Teams offers a dark mode. It works in all versions of Teams, including the Windows, Mac, web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps. Here’s how to turn on dark mode—and how to get lig…

Mahesh Makvana Apr 11th

How to Change the Spellchecking Language in Outlook Online

Are you sending an email in a second language but not sure if you spelled a word correctly? Microsoft Outlook Online has a quick and easy way to change the spellchecking language to help you out.

Rob Woodgate Apr 10th

How to Crop a Picture in Microsoft OneNote

Many of Microsoft’s applications let you crop pictures directly. You can also do this with OneNote on the web, but for the Mac or Windows versions, you need to use a workaround.

Marshall Gunnell Apr 9th

How to Insert and Customize a Signature Line in Microsoft Excel

If you have a Microsoft Excel sheet that you need someone to verify, confirm, or agree to, you can have them sign it. Here, we’ll show you how to add and customize a signature line in your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet….

Sandy Writtenhouse Apr 8th

How to Practice Your Presentations with PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach

Microsoft PowerPoint now has a Presenter Coach to let you rehearse your presentations before going to the audience. This coach gives you a detailed report telling you how well you did and suggesting areas for improvement. Her…

Mahesh Makvana Apr 7th

How to Insert an Animated GIF into a Word Document

Adding an animated GIF to your Word document is useful if you want to convey a message, demonstrate an activity, capture the audience’s attention, or just add some humor. Here’s how to add an animated GIF in Microsoft Word….

Marshall Gunnell Apr 5th

How to Insert a YouTube Video into a Word Document

Using a mix of media in your Word doc is a great way to provide additional context for your work and make your document more engaging. Here’s how to insert a YouTube video into a Microsoft Word document….

Marshall Gunnell Apr 1st

How to Use the LEN Function in Microsoft Excel

If you’ve ever wanted to try and find the number of characters in a line of text, you can use Microsoft Excel to do so, thanks to the LEN function. Here’s how to use it.

Ben Stockton Mar 31st

How to Get the Word Count of Your PowerPoint Presentation

Knowing the word count of your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and speaker notes can give you a rough idea of how long it may take to present the slideshow and where you may need to cut back. Here’s how to find out….

Marshall Gunnell Mar 30th

How to Fill Excel Cells Automatically with Flash Fill and Auto Fill

A lot of the tasks you’ll complete in Microsoft Excel are tedious. Luckily, Excel has several features that make this kind of spreadsheet work bearable. We’ll look at two of them: Flash Fill and Auto Fill….

Bryan Clark Mar 26th