A little known but useful Teams feature is synchronizing Teams files folders to your Windows or Mac computer. Files are available quickly, more easily and offline via Explorer or Finder. But there’s a trick to getting it working. The official way to access documents and files in Teams is via
Microsoft has announced their plans for later this year with additions to Teams, Whiteboard and an expansion of their Fluid components concept. None of these things are available now. It’s all future promises, nothing substantial customers can use today. Let’s strip away all the hype about ‘hybrid’ workplaces that are
Immersive Reader, already in Word, is coming to Outlook 365 for Windows. It’ll help people who have trouble reading on the screen or more generally. It’s part of Microsoft’s Accessibility drive to make Office documents available to as many people as possible. With Immersive Reader, an Outlook email is reformatted
OneDrive has quietly boosted one of its most important features, the ability to synchronize more than one account on the same computer or portable device. Here’s how for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android. It’s possible to sync almost all the OneDrive accounts you have access to. A personal OneDrive
How to type Ghana Cedi currency character in Windows or Office, especially Word. After our article about inserting Numero and other symbols into Office – trust an Office Watch reader to find a character not available in a supplied Windows / Office font: ” The currency in Ghana is the
Microsoft Word has footnotes and endnotes features but it’s surprisingly clumsy when it come to the common need for footnotes immediately after a table. Normally, Word puts Footnotes at the bottom of the page but for tables (and occasionally pictures or diagrams) you want them immediately after the table like
Here’s how to stop Microsoft Office for Mac from automatically updating itself and why you might want to do refresh the Office apps. Office 2019 / 2016 for Mac All versions of Office for Mac that have current support (currently Office 2016 and later) get: updates to fix bugs in
A sad story from rural Australia where a local netball group lost AU$150,000 (US$115,000) when they were tricked into paying an invoice to the wrong bank account, one run by cyber-hackers. Here’s what happened and how to protect money you’re responsible for. The volunteers didn’t know their email accounts had
Microsoft changes what’s displayed in Excel Map Charts depending on your location and Microsoft’s policies in certain countries like China. We’ve had reports from people in China and Hong Kong that they can’t ‘see’ Taiwan on their Excel Map Charts. In most of the world, China and Taiwan show up
Paying less for Microsoft 365 Family or Personal isn’t easy these days. Why is that and what discount options are still available? There was a time, not so long ago, when getting a discounted price for a Microsoft 365 consumer plan wasn’t hard. All the major retailers sold Microsoft 365
How to type the ‘Numero’ symbol and other special characters – there’s many ways to do it in Word and Office. It all started with a single, seemingly simple, question from a reader. As often happens, the question opens up a whole range of options in Office Entering the Numero sign
Org Explorer is a new part of Outlook for Windows that shows where you fit in an organization. Who is ‘above’ and ‘below’ or near your place in the company? For Microsoft 365 hosted accounts, Org Explorer appears on the Home tab, on the right-side under the Find chunk. Microsoft
Microsoft Outlook is in the final stages of a major improvement in the ‘plumbing’ behind synchronizing calendars across an organization. Leaving aside a particularly outrageous Redmond boast, the changes are welcome enhancements. Outlook and Exchange Server can have difficulties coping with fast changing appointment and meeting arrangements. When several people
Review mode is a very useful sharing choice in OneDrive and Sharepoint for Microsoft Word documents only. It lets people look over and comment on a Word document without changing the text. Only Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Education customers can get Review Mode. Look for it at the bottom of
The Block Download option is worth considering when sharing an Office document, audio file or PDF that you’d like to limit distribution in OneDrive or SharePoint. Block Download is only available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Education customers. Look for it at the bottom of the shared Link Settings. What
The options for sharing documents and files will be changing over the next twelve months for the Office 365 apps, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive. Year of Sharing The whole suite of changes is what Microsoft is grandly calling the ‘Year of Sharing’. That’s overstating things because there’s little or no
For a clear explanation of Amazon’s intrusive Sidewalk feature for Echo and Ring, go to an unexpected source, Jeff Bezos’ own newspaper. Sidewalk is being enabled on many Amazon Echo (‘smart speakers’) and Ring devices (cameras, doorbells) etc. It creates a hidden network that connects those devices to each other
Yet more examples of strangeness and inconsistencies with Excel Map Charts with some unexpected workarounds. When Bing ‘accidently’ dropped images of the Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man’ (not the first time such politically convenient ‘bugs’ have creeped into Bing). It made us wonder how Excel Map Charts (a Bing cloud service)
Esports (online gaming) is getting serious. Tomorrow the Financial Modelling World Cup pits eight Excel experts against each other in an online tournament. Instead of fighting battles or virtual sports, this is a test of Excel skills. It’s being called the ‘888 Battle’ 8 Contestants from 8 Countries on 8th
How to get a ‘Chalkboard’ or ‘Whiteboard’ effect in Microsoft Word. Recently we talked about Text Boxes in Word and how to get various looks for sidebars and columns. How about copying the ‘chalkboard’ or ‘Whiteboard’ effect for a different style of text box not offered by Microsoft in their
Office for Windows can have an extra on the Home pane – Recommended Documents which tries to suggest documents you’re involved with. Here’s what’s possible with this feature including how to hide it away and leave more screen space for the things you want to see. Source: Microsoft Recent Documents
Microsoft has a series of demo pages that go ‘step by step’ through the main features in Teams. Teams Basics https://Teamsdemo.office.com is the demo to start with. It explains the main elements of Teams including channels, members, posts etc. All the demos are focused on Teams not Teams Free but
How to sort a list using a hidden or unseen column in a Microsoft Word table. Sometimes you want to sort a list in a way that isn’t apparent to the reader. To continue our Apollo theme, here’s a list of the twelve men who walked on the moon with
Microsoft regularly promotes new or updated features in Teams, but there’s no sign of them for many people – there’s two different reasons. Teams features might not be available because it’s a free account (‘Teams Free’) or the user has Guest access to a paid Teams channel. All Microsoft announcements
