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Microsoft Excel Copilot can turn a messy table of mixed measurement units into a clean, single-unit table with a custom LAMBDA function, in under five minutes. Brian Jones (a longtime Microsoft Office insider) posted a Twitter/X video showing Copilot doing the job. His prompts are a smart use of Copilot including extra requests to confirm […]
The new ChatGPT Images 2.0 is worth a look for Copilot users. Instead of jumping straight to pixels, it reasons through your prompt first and can even search the web before generating a single image. If you have ever given up on AI images because the text was garbled, the results were inconsistent, or the […]
Microsoft is ending support for older TLS encryption POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online, with the cutoff starting July 1, 2026. Any email client, app, or device that still uses these older encryption protocols will simply stop connecting, with no fallback and no warning on the day it happens. Most users running modern email […]
Microsoft has quietly flipped a major switch. Copilot Agent Mode is now the default experience in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It works very differently from the Copilot you may have ignored until now. Instead of suggesting what you should do, it actually works on your document, spreadsheet, or presentation and makes changes itself. You describe […]
If you regularly need to type the Euro sign €, the Pound symbol £, or any other special character in Microsoft Word or Outlook, there is a faster way than clicking through Insert Symbols. The Alt + X keyboard shortcut lets you type any symbol’s Unicode value directly in your document, press Alt + X, […]
