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How to Record a Video Clip and Your Screen in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams video clips now record your screen and run up to five minutes. Here's where the feature lives, how to set up the camera bubble, and how to trim, send, and download the clip.
Microsoft Teams Is Getting a Major Meeting Controls Redesign
If you spend your day in Microsoft Teams meetings, get ready for a noticeable change. Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned meeting experience that simplifies the meeting toolbar, makes screen sharing safer, and gives users more control over the arrangement of meeting buttons. The goal is straightforward: reduce accidental clicks
Excel FILTER Function: Filter and Sort Data with Ease
The FILTER function spills back only the rows that match a condition. Three worked examples: filter by quantity, combine SORT with FILTER for sorted results, and build a between filter with two conditions.
Save Hours on Outlook Replies with Microsoft Copilot
Reply to email faster in Outlook with Copilot — use one-click suggested drafts for quick replies, or the Copilot task pane and Draft Assistant when you need to add details, cities, and venues the sender never mentioned.
Honored to Be Named a Microsoft MVP for the Second Year in a Row
July 15, 2026 - Chris Menard has been named a Microsoft MVP for the second year in a row, recognized for his work in Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Teams. Here's what the award means and how he's giving back to the community.
How to Test Your Mic and Speaker Before a Microsoft Teams Meeting
Microsoft Teams now lets you test your microphone and speaker right from the join screen. Here's where the Test mic and speaker link is and how to run both checks in seconds.
How to Record Your Screen with Snipping Tool in Windows 11
Windows 11 includes a free screen recorder inside the Snipping Tool. Here's how to record your screen with audio, choose the capture area, check your microphone, and save or share the result.
Add Prep and Buffer Time to Outlook Calendar Events with Copilot
Use Copilot in the new Outlook and Outlook on the web to add 30-minute prep blocks and 15-minute hold blocks around your calendar events — with one specific prompt.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Model Picker Changed: Where Did GPT‑5.5 and the Other Models Go?
Microsoft 365 Copilot users are noticing a major change: the model picker no longer shows options like GPT‑5.5 and other models.
Summarize Text Columns in Excel with Copilot to Categorize Survey Responses
Copilot in Excel can now read a column of free-text answers — survey responses, feedback, help desk tickets — and summarize it into clean categories with a live count. Here is the exact prompt and workflow.
Copilot Chat: How to Toggle Between Work IQ and the Work and Web View
Licensed Copilot Chat now has a toggle to switch between the new Work IQ look and the classic Work and Web view. Here is where it lives and how it works.
Microsoft Excel
Excel Formula Completion with IF Functions: Commissions, Grades, and Copilot
I test Excel Formula Completion on real IF functions - a commission formula with absolute references and a nested IF for letter grades. Here's how Copilot did.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams Update: When to Click It and When to Wait
When the word Update appears in the top-right corner of Teams desktop, click it — except in two situations. Here's where the button lives, how to update, and what happens.
Formula Completion Files and Copilot Function files
Masterminds Copilot Implementation - June 17, 2026
Microsoft Teams
How to Show Meeting Chats in Their Own Section in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams lets you pull all your meeting chats into their own dedicated, collapsible section in the chat list. Here's how to turn it on and move it where you want.
Microsoft Teams
My Microsoft Teams Course Is Getting a Full Refresh — Here's What's Changing
My Microsoft Teams online training is getting a full revamp by July 28, 2026 — a current-look rebuild, better-organized lessons, written steps with every video, more quizzes, and live streams for students.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot Updates: Smart Suggestions, Docking, and Shortcut in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
New Microsoft 365 Copilot updates in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: smart suggestions on hover, docking the button to the far right, the Alt+C shortcut, and the upcoming Dock to the Ribbon option.
Microsoft Excel
Excel COPILOT Function: Advanced Prompts with Real Examples
Push the Excel COPILOT function with five advanced prompts on a real sales dataset — regional totals, ranking, category comparisons, and finding the top improver by dollars and by percentage — plus how to verify every answer.
Full-Day Excel 365 Training — Coweta County | June 15, 2026
Hands-on Excel Training with Chris Menard | Microsoft MVP
Microsoft Excel
Dollar Cost Averaging vs. Lump Sum Investing: A Side-by-Side Excel Comparison
Two people can put the exact same amount of money into the market and still end up with different numbers of shares — and different returns when they sell. That comes down to how the money goes in. The two methods are lump sum investing and dollar cost averaging, and I
M365 Copilot Work IQ Explained (Free PowerPoint Download)
Free PowerPoint presentation from Chris Menard - Microsoft MVP
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat's New Look: How Work IQ Replaces the Work and Web Toggle
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is getting a redesign, and I got it early at the end of May. This is the layout that rolls out to all users in July 2026, with an opt-in toggle available in June if you want to try it sooner. If you use Copilot
Microsoft Excel
Excel Power Query vs. Manually Fixing Data: A Side-by-Side Comparison
Clean one messy Excel dataset two ways — manually and with Power Query — to see exactly when each approach saves you time.