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
Excel has three cell references - Relative, Absolute, and Mixed. It is critical to understand when to use each reference in Excel. Excel References - Relative, Absolute, and Mixed The default reference is relative is used frequently in Excel. The next highly used reference is absolute. Finally, we have two
Microsoft 365
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in all Microsoft 365 apps - Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, and other M365 apps. In Excel, we have Analyze data on the Home tab and the ability to get data from a picture or screenshot. Popular Excel Articles Excel Charts - three methods for filtering
Microsoft Teams
The new Microsoft Teams is coming soon! Teams is getting completely overhauled. The new Teams preview is now available for Windows desktop users. It will come soon to Mac users and Teams on the web. Microsoft Teams came out in 2017. Today, over 280 million people use Teams monthly. Switching
Microsoft Excel
Need to quickly understand your data in Excel and ask questions about your data? Easy to do using Excel's Analyze Data command located on the Home tab in Excel. Analyze Data using Artificial Intelligence (AI). You can type questions, and Excel will return results in a PivotTable format.
Microsoft Excel
After sorting in Excel, we will look at two great methods for separating blocks of data or showing a clean separator between our groups. Break between groups in Excel A group may be departments, states, countries, or cities. We will use the Subtotal command, and Page Breaks between Groups for
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.
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