PowerPoint - Free Stock Videos from Microsoft now in PowerPoint
Posted by Chris Menard on 12/29/2020
Microsoft 365 subscribers have access to Premium Creative Content, an in-app library of royalty-free images, icons, cutout people, stickers that are available in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel. Now Microsoft has added Stock Videos for PowerPoint. The videos are subtle looping videos.
Email mail merge: personalized emails using Excel - Word & Outlook
Posted by Chris Menard on 12/03/2020
Need to send personalized emails to individuals all at one time? That is called an "Email Mail Merge." I'm going to use Excel, Word, and Outlook - part of Microsoft 365 - to create and send bulk emails out. The order these apps are used would be Excel, then Word, and finally, Outlook.
Roles in a Teams Meeting: Organizer - Presenter - Attendee
Posted by Chris Menard on 11/03/2020
Teams Meetings have three roles: Organizer, Presenter, and Attendee. You have different capabilities depending on your role. We will cover all the possibilities on the roles and how to change roles.
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