7 reasons to enable the New Meeting Experience in Teams
Posted on 10/16/2020
Microsoft Teams has now the new Meeting Experience. At a first look it might not be as easy as it sounds, so I will walk you through all the steps you need to do and also give you 7 reasons for using the new experience.
PowerPoint / Keynote as a Virtual Background
Posted on 10/15/2020
Zoom's Virtual Background feature is trendy. It is easy to share a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation in a Zoom meeting, but now you can share that presentation as a Virtual Background. Participants can view your video imposed directly on the screen share.
Live Captions in Microsoft Teams with speaker attributions
Posted by Chris Menard on 10/13/2020
Recently Microsoft Teams updated their live caption enhancement to a newer version. We tested the enhanced live caption feature, discussed Teams on the web, punctuation and how live captions work in recorded videos.
Excel: College Decision Helper Template
Posted by Chris Menard on 08/13/2020
Whether you want to attend a large public university or a small private college, knowing all about the schools you're considering is essential to making a good decision.
Create a Poll in an Outlook email
Posted by Chris Menard on 07/20/2020
Outlook now allows you to quickly create a poll in an email. This works with in conjunction with Microsoft Forms, but you do NOT have to go to Forms to use this feature. You create your poll directly in the email.
Zip Code data type in Excel
Posted on 07/10/2020
To use the Zip Code data type, select your zip codes, and Excel will return important information. Data includes the median household income, latitude, longitude, population by marital status
Teams add your own virtual background directly in Teams
Posted by Chris Menard on 06/25/2020
Microsoft has released a Teams meetings update that allows meeting participants to upload their own personal backgrounds. Teams is known for the popular blurry background effect and soon added pre-installed backgrounds. Now Teams allow custom backgrounds to be added easily.
Average Function in Excel
Posted on 06/07/2020
The AVERAGE function is one of the most popular functions in Excel. This video shows how to use the Average function, handles zero values when using the Average function. Zero values vs. blank cells will give different results with Average. As a bonus, using the AverageIF function with zero values.