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
When you schedule or organize a Teams meeting, you are the **Organizer**. There can only be one Organizer. The people that join your meeting are either **Presenters** or **Attendees**. Each role has different permissions for what they can do in a meeting. By default, only people in your organization will
Zoom
Posted on: 10/29/2020 On October 26th, Zoom came out with a new update, Version 5.4.0, that has many new features. This article will cover only one of the new features, but it is a good one! You can now have time limits for joining before the
SnagIt
Posted on: 10/26/2020 **Snagit** is a screen capture program developed by Techsmith. Not only have I been using **Snagit** for years, and it is my favorite screen capture software, I also use **Camtasia,** which I use to record all my YouTube videos. In this article, I want to
Microsoft Excel
In Excel, if you need to calculate the difference between two dates in years, month, or days, the **DATEDIF** function will handle it. **DATEDIF** is "Date & Dif". It is an exciting function since it does not show up in Excel's Date & Time function. So
Microsoft Word
In this article I'm going to show you some major security features added in the Zoom update for May 2020. To show you these new features, I have started a test meeting, and I will explain them one by one. 1. The first new feature in this update
Zoom
In a Zoom meeting, when you share your screen, your Zoom window and meeting control toolbar is not included in the screen share. If you are training users to use Zoom, especially hosting a meeting, you may wish to include them. This is a great feature if you are showing
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams now has the new Meeting Experience. Meetings and calls will open a separate window with the new Meeting Experience. Turning this on will require restarting (quitting) Teams. I will walk you through all the steps you need to do and give you seven reasons to use the new
Google Meet has two new features that were just released in September. One of them is that you can blur your background and the second is that you can now view a maximum of 49 people in your Google meeting. In this article we're gonna take a look
Microsoft PowerPoint
Zoom's Virtual Background feature is trendy. It is easy to share a PowerPoint or Keynote (if you are a Mac user) presentation in a Zoom meeting, but now you can share that presentation as a Virtual Background. Sharing your slides as a Virtual Background allows your participants to
Microsoft Teams
Posted on: 10/13/2020 Recently **Microsoft Teams** updated their live caption enhancement to a newer version and fixed an issue we have noticed back in July when I made this [video]( where it did not show who was currently talking. I think this is a big deal, so I
Microsoft Excel
Zoom Meetings Updates Zoom: PowerPoint / Keynote as Virtual Background Zoom's Virtual Background feature is trendy. It is easy to share a PowerPoint or Keynote presentations in a Zoom meeting, but now you can share your presentation as a Virtual Background and it allows your participants to view your
Zoom
Zoom now allows participants to choose their own Breakout Rooms with no assistance from the host. This new feature in Zoom 5.3.0 will enable participants to self-select their own breakout rooms. This is a great feature. Imagine I have students in my Zoom meeting. I need the