Microsoft Office Blog by Chris Menard

Use a virtual background with Zoom Meetings or RingCentral Meetings

Virtual backgrounds are easy to use with Zoom Meetings. The virtual background feature allows you to display an image as your background during a Zoom Meeting.

YouTube keyboard shortcuts

YouTube keyboard shortcuts for forward and back 5 seconds and 10 seconds, pause and play.

Snap a picture of an Excel table with your smart phone and edit the spreadsheet

Excel on Android has a new feature where you can take a picture of a table and edit it in Excel.

Create awesome presentations with Xara Cloud

Xara Cloud brings your presentation to life. It can be downloaded to PowerPoint.

Snagit: capture cursor, use callouts, and shapes by Chris Menard

Snagit allows you to capture the cursor and apply callouts and shapes to screenshots.

Snagit: Combine multiple images into one screenshot

Snagit 2019 allows you to combine multiple screen shots into one image. You can make the images either portrait or landscape.

Covert date to fiscal quarter in Excel

In Excel, to calculate the fiscal quarter that starts with a month other than January, use the CHOOSE function. We will look at fiscal years starting in July, October, and then April in this exercise.

Snagit 2019 Webinar on January 29, 2019

Snagit 2019 webinar with Chris Menard on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, at 7:00 PM ET. Learn how to capture regions, windows, and scrolling windows. In the Editor, use callouts, blur effects, and other features.

Be careful when averaging percentages

When averaging percentages, use caution. It is a common mistake to in data analysis.

Snagit: Grab Text from a screenshot

The Grab Text feature in Snagit allows you to copy text from images and screenshots.

Use What-If Analysis with Data Tables in Excel

Calculate multiple results by using a data table in Excel.

COUNTIF Function in Excel

One of the most powerful functions in Excel is the COUNTIF function. It counts the cells that meet a certain criteria.