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
Trying to decide what University or College to attend is a big life decision. Microsoft is helping out with these big life decisions with their Excel **College Decision Helper Template**. The template uses Excel's new linked data types. Type in a college and see data for location, tuition,
Do you use Google Chrome and have too many tabs open? The solution is to use Tab Groups. Tab groups in Chrome help you organize your tabs. You can use tab groups to groups tabs, name the tab group, and even add color to the group to make it easy
Finance
**Simple Bank is closing on May 8, 2021. This article is part of a series of personal finance articles centered around the transition of Simple Bank accounts to BBVA. This article has a specific audience: Simple Bank customers who may not want their accounts to be taken over by BBVA
Microsoft Word
Microsoft has a new feature where you can EXPORT your Word document into PowerPoint. It is just a few clicks to convert your Word doc to a slide deck. It is in preview mode right now, but it worked great in all my test. Exporting Word into PowerPoint is a
Microsoft Excel
Need to quickly access an Excel file or Word document in a Teams Channel? It is easy to add a file as a documents tab in a channel. This is so much easier than trying to find a file. If there is an Excel file you access daily or frequently
Microsoft Outlook
You can easily make a contact group, formerly known as a distribution list, in Outlook by copying and pasting Excel data into Outlook. A Contact Group is handy if you email the same group of people frequently. The group can be your team, a project team, a committee, or even
Microsoft Teams
**Microsoft Teams March 2021 update includes a few great features, most of them have to do with the New Look of Teams which not only brings a slight color scheme change, but also convenience and streamline enhancements.** If you recall, the previous versions of Teams had a kind of blue
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Teams keeps rolling out the cool features for Teams Meetings. Today, I’d like to tell you about new improvements for presenting PowerPoint slide decks, during a Teams meeting. Speaker notes are visible by default When you're in a Teams meeting and click Share content, you can
Microsoft Outlook
Outlook on the Web makes it easy to search for emails with "Attachments," but what do you do when you only want to see file attachments and not the emails? Microsoft has a **File** view in Outlook on the Web, formerly Outlook Web Access (OWA), later Outlook Web
Zoom
Scheduling a Zoom meeting that requires registration will allow participants to register with their email, first name, last name, and other questions. Registration allows you to capture more information about your attendees. Once this is scheduled, you can manage your registrants, resend confirmation emails, and generate meeting registration reports if
Microsoft Word
Do you need to remove the background from an image or photo, but don't have the time or software? There is a website I recommend where you drag your image on the webpage, and your background is removed immediately! The website is **[Remove.BG](https://www.remove.bg/
Microsoft Excel
Year-Over-Year (YOY) growth compares one period, usually a quarter or a month, against the same period twelve months before. You can compare Q3 of 2022 against Q3 of 2021. Another example is comparing the month of November 2022 to November 2021. You can even compare one day to the same