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The right-click context menu in Excel holds some powerful features that many users overlook. Here are 8 right-click techniques that can speed up your everyday Excel work — from moving columns without cut-and-paste to autofilling weekdays only. 1. Move Columns with Right-Click Drag Instead of cutting and inserting columns, select a
November 4, 2025 Microsoft MVP and productivity expert Chris Menard will be presenting a highly anticipated session titled “Executive Insights: Harnessing Excel for Strategic Analysis” at the EA Ignite Conference, held at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel. This premier event, running from November 3–5, 2025, is tailored for executive assistants
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Chris Menard will present “Mastering Microsoft 365 Copilot” at EA Ignite in Nashville on Nov 3, 2025. Learn how Copilot boosts productivity in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams during this hands-on session.
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Microsoft Teams is rolling out a redesigned file search experience for channels. The old Files tab has been replaced with a new Shared tab that combines files, links, and recent activity in one place — with keyword filtering and direct access to your SharePoint document library. In this tutorial, Chris walks
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In this live session, Chris Menard and Melissa Ballesteros walk through practical tips for getting more out of Microsoft 365 Copilot. From Excel formula suggestions to AI-powered notebooks and PowerPoint presentation creation, this 45-minute session covers the features that matter most for everyday productivity. Excel Formula Completion with TEXTAFTER Chris
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Excel's Copilot formula completion feature can write complex XLOOKUP formulas for you. Instead of memorizing syntax and figuring out the arguments, you describe what you want in plain English and Copilot generates the formula. In this tutorial, Chris Menard demonstrates this using a sneaker sales dataset. Watch the
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The Windows system tray (notification area) sits in the bottom-right corner of your taskbar, and most people never customize it. By default, many useful icons are hidden behind the caret (^) arrow, making them harder to access. With a few quick changes, you can keep your most-used apps visible and use
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If you've clicked the Copilot icon in Excel and gotten a task pane that doesn't look quite right, you're not alone. The default pane opens a general chat window, but the real productivity gains come from switching to App Skills — the workbook-aware Copilot experience
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Microsoft 365 has been rolling out changes across the board. In this post, I cover three announcements worth paying attention to: a LiveStream event on Copilot features, refreshed app icons across the Microsoft 365 suite, and new Copilot integration directly inside File Explorer. YouTube Video New Microsoft 365 App Icons
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If you've been using VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP to pull data between Excel worksheets, there's a more efficient approach. Excel's Data Model lets you create relationships between tables so you can build PivotTables that pull from multiple sources — without duplicating data or writing complex formulas.
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Most people use XLOOKUP or VLOOKUP to combine data from two Excel tables. But there's a smarter approach: Excel's built-in Data Model and table relationships. This method links tables like a database — no formulas, no duplicate columns, and no maintenance when data changes. In this tutorial,
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Need fictitious customer data, order records, or test datasets for training, presentations, or projects? You can generate all of it using free Copilot Chat — no paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license required. In this guide, I walk through how to use Copilot Chat to create realistic sample data, structure it into