Chris Menard is a Microsoft MVP. He is certified in Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. His YouTube videos have over 25 million views.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is rolling out Virtual Appointments. Virtual Appointments make it easy to schedule meetings, and the meeting attendees do not need to install Teams. Even joining from an Android or iPhone, there is no need to install Teams. Teams Virtual Appointment Examples of who would use Virtual Appointments: insurance
Microsoft Teams
When you are in a Teams Meeting, or Video call, you can toggle between the shared screen and the presenter. This is a great tip when someone is sharing but then starts a discussion. You want to see the person and not the shared screen. YouTube Video Teams Video Call
Microsoft Outlook
Your inbox in Microsoft Outlook can become overwhelming to manage. Microsoft Outlook has some easy commands located on the Home tab to help manage your inbox.
Microsoft Excel
Excel has dynamic array functions. Two of the dynamic array function are SORT and UNIQUE. I will combine SORT and UNIQUE and also combine them with COUNT and the COUNTA functions. This came from a user that asked how many unique zip codes were in a spreadsheet. **SORT and UNIQUE
Zoom
Zoom has a great new feature using Polls and Breakout Rooms. Now, when you launch polls, you can create breakout rooms from the poll results! This feature is part of Zoom 5.13.5 released on January 16, 2023. **Zoom Breakout Rooms from Polls** Steps to enable breakout rooms from
Microsoft OneDrive
Updated: November 23, 2025
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams Channels is a great way to communicate and collaborate. I love group chat also, but one HUGE advantage a Team has over a group chat is the ability to manage files and folders. **Teams Channel - Drag and Drop to move files or folders in a channel** With
Microsoft Excel
Excel allows you to pull data on a webpage into Excel. This is a great time-saving feature. Getting data from a webpage is done in Excel on the Data Tab using Get and Transform Data group, From Web command. **Excel - Data From Web** Get Started - Find a webpage
Microsoft Excel
Frequently we have data in one format but need to convert it to another. Today's example is I have a column on seconds for the length of videos. I want to show minutes and seconds with a colon in between the minutes and seconds. **Convert seconds to minutes
Microsoft Teams
Teams now allows you to launch an Instant Poll in a meeting. This is a great feature to gather feedback or get the pulse of your audience There are three options for instant polls: 1. Yes/No 2. Thumbs up/Thumbs down 3. Like/Dislike. **Instant Polls in Teams** How
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft keeps rolling out awesome new features for M365 users. Many of the new features hit Excel in 2022. This video covers my top five favorite features in Excel from 2022. Navigation Pane - Top 5 of 2022 for Excel YouTube Video TOP 5 Excel Features Released in 2022 Chapters
Microsoft
Chris Menard achieves Microsoft Certified Trainer certification. Menard has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer for over 10 years. The certification must be renewed every year. Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) are the premier technical and instructional experts in Microsoft technologies. Click **[here](https://www.credly.com/badges/81c5f438-cc53-4f27-9756-b1d9f806e239/public_url)** to