Microsoft Teams Can Blur the Background During Meetings, Hiding Your Mess of an Office
Tired of tidying up your office before every team chat? Microsoft’s Teams can now blur the background for you.
How to Place Text Over a Graphic in Microsoft Word
There are several reasons why you may want place text over an image in a Word document. Perhaps you want to place your company logo in the background of a document you’re writing for work, or maybe you need a “confidentia...
Office 2019 Has Arrived. Here’s Why You Probably Won’t Care.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the availability of Office 2019 to volume licensing customers, promising general retail availability in the coming weeks. Unless you’re a business customer looking to upgrade and you’...
How to Edit the Subject of a Message You’ve Been Sent in Outlook
It’s annoying getting an important email with an irrelevant or missing subject line. Sure, you can categorize your mail to help you find it later, but nothing beats a useful subject line when you’re looking at you...
What Your Function Keys Do In Microsoft Excel
The function keys on keyboards don’t get the love they used to, but depending on the app you’re running, they can still be quite handy. Microsoft Excel has some interesting features tucked away behind your function keys. ...
What’s the Mention Column for in Microsoft Outlook?
Microsoft’s latest versions of Outlook are Outlook 2016, Outlook 365, and Outlook.com. If you’re not using one of these versions, you won’t have mentions until you upgrade.
How to Add and Format Text in a Shape in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word makes it easy to add geometric shapes (and a whole lot more) to your document. You can also add text into these shapes, which is handy when you’re creating flowcharts, network diagrams, mind maps, and so ...
How to Stop Someone Forwarding a Meeting Request in Outlook
If you’ve ever had a problem with potential meeting attendees forwarding requests to others, we have good news. If you have the latest version of Outlook (2016 or 365) or you’re an Office 365 subscriber using the ...
How to Draw and Manipulate Arrows in Microsoft Word
Whether you need to point to an image for emphasis or demonstrate where to click for interactivity, there is a wide range of arrow shapes that you can create and customize in Microsoft Word. Let’s take a look at how the...
How to Create and Customize a Folder View in Outlook
If you work in an office, then the chances are you spend a lot of time dealing with email, most probably in Microsoft Outlook. It’s worth taking a little time to get Outlook to display the information you need. For emai...
How to Print Just the Speaker Notes for a PowerPoint Presentation
You’ve got your speaker notes set up in your PowerPoint presentation, and now you want to print a copy for quick reference. Here’s how to print speaker notes for a PowerPoint Presentation—with and without sl...
How to Disable (or Clear) the Auto-Complete Feature in Outlook
The Auto-Complete feature in Outlook automatically fills in names and email addresses for you when entering them in the To or Cc fields. Based on the characters you start to enter, Outlook displays a list of possible choices ...
How to Create Custom Cover Pages in Microsoft Word
A great cover page draws in readers. If you use Microsoft Word, you’re in luck, because Word has ready to use cover pages. But did you know that Word also lets you create custom cover pages? Here’s how to use both...
How to Print Multiple PowerPoint Slides to Each Piece of Paper
Printing can be pretty expensive these days, so it pays to only print what you need. If you’re teaching or taking a class, then it’s likely you’ll have to print out large PowerPoint slide decks from time to ...
How to Black (or White) Out a PowerPoint Presentation
Have you ever paused a presentation to talk to your audience, but found them distracted by what was still on screen? You can black out (or white out) a presentation anytime you want with a simple keystroke....
How to Change the Ruler Measurement Unit in Microsoft Word
In Word, you can select one of several units of measurement for the ruler. This is useful when you’re working on a document for someone who uses a different measurement system for margins, tabs, and so on. It’s an eas...
How to Remove the Background from a Picture in Microsoft Word
Every so often, you might want to remove the background from an image in your Word document, leaving a transparent area instead. You could turn to a full-featured image editor, but you can also do this right within Microsoft ...
What Your Function Keys Do in Microsoft Word
The function keys on keyboards don’t get the love they used to, but depending on the app you’re running, they can still be quite handy. Word, in particular, has some interesting features tucked away behind your fu...
How to Cut, Copy, and Paste in Microsoft Word
Cutting, copying, and pasting are three of the most basic features available to a computer user, but as you might expect Microsoft Word gives you more options than just those. There’s a built-in Office clipboard that...
Why Microsoft’s Office 365 is a Great Deal
Microsoft’s Office 365 service has been a great deal for a long time, and it’s getting better. Starting October 2, 2018, Office 365 Home will let six users install an unlimited number of Office applications....
How to Find and Replace Formatting in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word’s Find and Replace feature isn’t just for replacing text. You can also use Find and Replace to locate specific types of formatting throughout your document and even replace that formatting with some...
How to Find and Replace Text in Microsoft Word
Have you ever finishing typing a letter, report or presentation only to discover that you misspelled a person’s name or had the wrong company listed multiple times throughout your document? No worries—it’s a...
How (and Why) to Use Hidden Text in a Word Document
Word lets you hide text so you can read or print your document as if the text isn’t there. This might seem pointless—why not just remove the text if you don’t want someone to read it—but hidden text do...
Use the Navigation Pane to Easily Reorganize Microsoft Word Documents
Microsoft Word is packed with features that improve usability and workflow efficiency. Navigation Pane is a great example, and you can use it to navigate headings, search your document for text or objects, and even easily reo...
How to Reduce the Size of a Microsoft Word Document
Word documents can get huge, unusually long, complex documents with loads of embedded images, fonts, and other objects. But it also seems like documents can grow out of hand for seemingly no reason at all. If you’re dea...
