Microsoft Office Blog by Chris Menard

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.

Outlook on the Web - 7 cool features

Outlook on the Web keeps rolling out new features. In this video, I cover seven features in Outlook that I love. Start a Teams chat in Outlook, work with sending and receiving attachments using OneDrive for Work, use undo send, suggested replies, and sent later.

Excel Charts - three methods for filtering Chart Data

Filtering data in Excel charts is easy to do. The method you use should be based on the amount of data you have. In this video, I show three methods of filtering chart data. Method 1 is using Chart Filters. This is the easiest method.

Zoom Security - Using and Changing your Personal Meeting ID (PMI)

Your Personal Meeting Room is a virtual meeting room permanently reserved for you to access with your Personal Meeting ID (PMI). With your PMI, you can start instant meetings, or you can schedule a meeting that uses your PMI.

Word: Insert Electronic Signature multiple ways including AutoCorrect

Need to add your electronic signature to a Word document? It is effortless to do. In this video, I'll show three ways to add your electronic signature to a Word Doc, how to correctly resize your signature, and wrap the text shows it shows correctly in the document.