Microsoft Office Blog by Chris Menard

Simple Bank to BBVA USA - Essential dates you need to know

Simple Bank is moving to BBVA USA. Here are some dates you need to know. May 4, 2021 - Support messages: You'll no longer be able to send a new support message through your Simple app.

Export Word to PowerPoint with a few clicks - New Feature from Microsoft

Microsoft has a new feature where you can EXPORT your Word document into PowerPoint. It is three clicks. Click File - click Export - select Export to PowerPoint presentation. It is in preview mode right now, but it worked great in all my test. Exporting Word into PowerPoint is a huge timesaver.

Teams - How to Add an Excel file or Word Doc to a Teams Channel Tab

Need to quickly access an Excel file or Word document in a Teams Channel? It is easy to add a file as a documents tab in a channel. Before making the document tab, the file must exist in the channel. If you click Files Tab and see the file, you can make it a Tab.

How To Create An Outlook Contact Group (Distribution List) From Excel Data?

You can easily make a contact group, formerly known as a distribution list, in Outlook by copying and pasting Excel data into Outlook.

Microsoft Teams: March 2021 Update: New features, New look

6 new features and improvements in Microsoft Teams update from March 2021 to do with meetings, calendar, Outlook, navigation and more.

PowerPoint Presentations in a Teams Meeting: Improvements and New Features

Several great improvements for PowerPoint presentations during a Teams meeting: speaker switch, high-contrast view, speaker notes and more.

Microsoft Outlook on the Web - the FILE view feature is incredible!

Microsoft has a “File” view in Outlook on the Web, that makes it easy to find any document and photos.

Zoom Meetings Registration | Top 10 questions answered | Zoom Registration Tutorial

Why use registration for a Zoom meeting? Registration is used for Zoom webinars, but you can use Registration for meetings. Three reasons to used registration for meetings:

Remove Image Background

Removing a background from an image is easy to do with Remove.bg website. I used it to remove the background from my signature

Year-Over-Year Growth - Excel PivotTable

Year-Over-Year (YOY) growth compares one period, usually a quarter or a month, against the same period twelve months before. You can compare Q3 of 2021 against Q3 of 2020. Another example is comparing the month of September 2021 to September 2020.

Excel PivotTable - Summarize data by Month or Day of the week

I need to know what day of the week is my most profitable. PivotTables and the TEXT function in Excel can easily determine this for me.

Zoom - Notification for Shared Content

Zoom has a new feature when you share your screen, you get notified over your shared content that 1) you are sharing and 2) participants can see your content.