Microsoft Excel
The Outlook desktop client now allows all meetings to be Teams meetings by default. No longer do you have to remember to click the Teams Meeting add-in icon in the ribbon. Another new feature in Outlook is you can now have a Meet Now meeting in Teams. YouTube Video on
Microsoft Outlook
Scheduling a Teams meeting is easy to do. I get asked a lot if I should schedule from Teams or Outlook? I'll cover the pros and cons of scheduling in Teams vs. Outlook, and I'll discuss a few new features in Teams and even show how
Teams
Share PowerPoint slides in a meeting If you're a presenter and choose to share a PowerPoint file in a meeting, you will have some behind-the-scenes capabilities with the new **presenter view**. As the presenter you will see - the current slide - the slide notes - thumbnail strip
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
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
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
Posted on: 09/08/2020 Welcome to the third issue of my Training Roundup! Today's issue is packed with updates on multiple fronts. I hope you can benefit from at least a few of them! You're receiving this email because you have subscribed on my website
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Posted on: 08/07/2020 Welcome to the second issue of my Training Roundup! You're receiving this email because you have subscribed on my website ChrisMenardTraining.com at some point in the previous weeks. The Training Roundup | Issue #2 1. Microsoft continues to add new Excel templates and
Teams
Microsoft has some major features scheduled for release for Microsoft Teams, particularly to do with Meetings. There are several improvements this month and I'll present them all to you below. How to turn on the new meeting experience Before we begin, you need to check if you have
Microsoft Excel
1. Microsoft just added the Zip Code Data Type in Excel. Unlike the Geography Data Type, which only shows data for countries, states and cities, the Zip Code Data Type returns things like household income, latitude, longitude, population by marital status, water and land areas and much more. Watch the
Teams
Fox has created backgrounds you can use as custom images in Teams meetings. The background images include The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Masked Singer, LEGO Masters, Bob's Burgers, and others. Fox's webpage to get images to download to Teams https://www.fox.com/article/fox-microsoft-teams-backgrounds-5e9faad3ab88be0019e77ed3/ Images
Teams
Teams is known for the popular blurry background effect and soon added pre-installed backgrounds. Now Teams allow custom backgrounds to be added.