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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

How to Create Live Polls During a Microsoft Teams Meeting

Live polls are a great way of gauging reactions, preferences, and answers during a meeting without having to stop for everyone to have their say. Here’s how to use and create polls in Microsoft Teams meetings….

Rob Woodgate Mar 25th

How to Make Your Word Document More Accessible to Everyone

When you create a Microsoft Word document, you should always make accessibility and inclusiveness a top priority. Here are some general rules and best practices you should follow to make your document more accessible to every…

Marshall Gunnell Mar 24th

How to Add a Gmail Account to Outlook Online

Microsoft Outlook Online has a dedicated button for adding a Gmail account to your online email client. Here’s how to pull your Gmail emails into Outlook in just a few clicks.

Rob Woodgate Mar 23rd

How (and Why) to Start Microsoft PowerPoint from the Command Prompt

You can open PowerPoint from the Windows Command Prompt. Using this method, you can add additional parameters that let you do things like start PowerPoint in Safe Mode for troubleshooting, or start with a specific template….

Marshall Gunnell Mar 22nd

How to Remove a Year from a Date in Microsoft Excel

There are a couple of ways you can remove the year from a date shown in Microsoft Excel. You can use custom cell formatting to hide it or use various functions like CONCATENATE to remove it completely. Here’s how….

Ben Stockton Mar 19th

How to Sync Files in Microsoft Teams to Your Device

Whether it’s because you need to work offline or you just prefer working from your file system, syncing files from Microsoft Teams to your hard drive is quick and easy. Here’s how to do it.

Rob Woodgate Mar 18th

How to Remove the Underline From a Hyperlink in Microsoft Word

When you insert a hyperlink in a Microsoft Word document, it’s formatted with an underline by default. You can easily remove the underline from the hyperlinked text to maintain consistency of the overall style of the document…

Marshall Gunnell Mar 17th

How to Create a Geographical Map Chart in Microsoft Excel

Charts are helpful for visual displays of your data. They can make viewing and analyzing data easier, especially for your audience. So for geographical data, why not use the map chart type in Microsoft Excel?…

Sandy Writtenhouse Mar 16th

How to Add a Status Message in Microsoft Teams

Now that Microsoft Teams seems to have taken over many companies, people expect to know when you’re available or not. Set a custom status message so your colleagues know what you’re up to.

Rob Woodgate Mar 15th

How to Quickly Turn a File Into a Tab in Microsoft Teams

Collaborating on files with your colleagues is one of Microsoft Teams’ biggest selling points, but finding the right file can be a chore. Here’s how to turn a file into a tab with the click of a single button….

Rob Woodgate Mar 12th

How to Use the Measurement Converter in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook offer a hidden measurement converter to save you from looking up conversions manually. If you’re working with a document, presentation, or email that contains measurements, you’ll like …

Sandy Writtenhouse Mar 11th