Tips, Tricks and Hints

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Making it Work When Working From Home

Making it Work When Working From Home

Working remotely can be invigorating from time to time, but there’s a reason why we don’t do it permanently. If we’re forced to work remotely for a long period, how do we overcome isolation effects? Working together in an office has a number of social benefits. You...

THREE EDGE TIMESAVERS

THREE EDGE TIMESAVERS

Who still uses Microsoft Edge? It’s a point of pride among many users to immediately swap out their default web browser on Windows from Edge to something else.   To be fair, that’s because Microsoft’s past browsers have fallen behind the marketplace – other browsers...

Excel’s Best Ideas

Excel’s Best Ideas

Have you noticed the ‘IDEAS’ icon in Excel? (It used to be called ‘Insights’ ). It’s Excel’s attempt to make you look smarter and more thoughtful. Simply start with a table (not a pivot table) of data, and hit the idea’s button and see what comes. Based on my...

Compare two (near) identical Word files, without going insane

Of course, in a modern cloud world, this shouldn’t happen! We should share a link to a file and use versions to maintain it’s history.  But we’re not in a perfect work, and we often get multiple people updating copies of the same file.  Its all good until we have to...

9 Common Excel Mistakes

We were reminded of the risks of messing up spreadsheets in a recent blog post at Oracle: The scary fact they quote is that 88% of all spreadsheets are wrong! The consequences of relying on bad information as a result can be insane! That reminded me of a couple of...

Have you noticed the new Office search?

Have you noticed the new Office search?

We love that Office365 keeps improving.  One of the most common challenges we all have is finding things. So, if this resonates for you,  the new search feature might be just what you need. [header2 text="Microsoft Search in Office" align="left" color="#336A40"...

When words fail you

When words fail you

If you are like me, sometimes you don't know the right words to type into the "help" search. Lucky for us, Office is keen to help. [wow_colorme]Have you ever noticed the 'Tell me what you want to do' item on the menu bar?[/wow_colorme] [wow_spacing size="20px"] It's...

Does OneDrive make the cloud work for you?

Does OneDrive make the cloud work for you?

Microsoft's geek-fest is called Ignite and we've been following it from afar. It was a OneDrive announcement that caught our eye today.  With lots of choice, and ingrained user habits, everyone has their favourite cloud sync tool. There's an innovation race to be the...

Changes to the Microsoft Office Ribbon (again!) for Office 365

Changes to the Microsoft Office Ribbon (again!) for Office 365

Microsoft love tweaking the Office ribbon bar. I’m never sure if it's an improvement or not, and that’s certainly the case now.  It is probably a personal preference. Actually, this time it’s not a replacement, although it may look that way – it’s a simplification...