Working from home is different. Managing staff working from home is also quite different. Here are a few tools to assist: 1. Is everyone working ok? Do we know where they are and what they need? How do we discharge our Duty of Care to our colleagues? Introducing...
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Top Microsoft Teams Tips to Keep Your Team Together
People are already feeling strain with the rapidly changing face of Covid-19. Stress and tensions are naturally high and for many organisations this could be first time they have asked people to work remotely for extended periods. It’s definitely not our New...
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
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
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...
What’s new in Office? Three of our favourites – that you will already have access to!
Office keeps changing, get smarter, more powerful an above all, helping you get more done each day. Each of these tips is something small, but cumulatively they make a difference! 1. When you want to email someone what you are seeing on screen (For example, if you...
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
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...