Chris Menard is a Microsoft MVP. He is certified in Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. His YouTube videos have over 25 million views.
Microsoft Excel
Two people can put the exact same amount of money into the market and still end up with different numbers of shares — and different returns when they sell. That comes down to how the money goes in. The two methods are lump sum investing and dollar cost averaging, and I
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Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is getting a redesign, and I got it early at the end of May. This is the layout that rolls out to all users in July 2026, with an opt-in toggle available in June if you want to try it sooner. If you use Copilot
Microsoft Excel
Clean one messy Excel dataset two ways — manually and with Power Query — to see exactly when each approach saves you time.
Microsoft Outlook
If you have a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license, there's a genuinely useful new calendar feature in Outlook: automatic meeting rescheduling. When a conflict arises, Copilot detects it and moves the meeting for you — no manual back-and-forth required. Here's exactly how to set it
Microsoft Excel
I wanted to see whether Claude inside Microsoft Excel could handle something visual instead of a formula: adding a column of real, clickable checkboxes. One short prompt, no fiddling with Form Controls — that was the test. Here's how it went, plus the manual fallback and the formula I
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams just added a new Muted section to the chat list that automatically groups your muted meeting chats. Here's how to turn it on, how it behaves, and the one limitation to know about.
Microsoft Excel
Finding duplicates, highlighting them, and removing them is something I do all the time in Excel. There's no single best tool for the job — the right approach depends on whether your data has a unique identifier, whether you need to compare one list or two, and whether you
Microsoft Excel
Use a formula-based conditional formatting rule with a mixed reference to highlight every row where the spend column exceeds the budget column.
Microsoft Excel
I wanted to see how well Claude in Excel can actually clean data — not just a row or two, but a genuinely messy spreadsheet with broken dates, inconsistent states, extra spaces everywhere, dollar signs glued to text, and possible duplicates lurking in the rows. So I built a fictitious order
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Copilot Cowork is the most exciting addition to Microsoft 365 Copilot I have used in a while. It is a multi-step agent that works across Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and your other apps at the same time — give it one prompt and it can search your mailbox, build deliverables
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Copilot in Word has a great new feature that just rolled out: the Legal Agent. It can review a contract, leave clause-level comments, and apply insertions and deletions with track changes — all from a prompt inside Word. I am not an attorney, so consider this a demo of