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BetterCloud’s integration with OneDrive and SharePoint Online aims to unify, simplify, and control the management and security of Office 365. Here are six things you can do with SharePoint Online and OneDrive in BetterCloud.
Let’s talk Office 365! We are excited to announce that BetterCloud now supports OneDrive and SharePoint Online use cases. Connecting Office 365 to BetterCloud centralizes all Office 365 users, groups, files, and settings to automate user orchestration and data protection.
With over 50 new features and enhancements released to date (highlights here), recognition from Gartner in the first-ever Market Guide for Cloud Office Management Tools, and a mention at the top of Forbes’ Billion-Dollar Startups list, 2017 has been a watershed year for BetterCloud.
Office 365 offers lots of fantastic features that can optimize your productivity. But are you using all of them? We’ve got five awesome tips that will enhance your experience and help you get the most out of Office 365.
Adopting new technology is far from simple. But when done right, new technology can lead to productivity gains and a distinct competitive advantage. What do technology adoption experts do to ensure success?
If data loss occurs in Office 365, have no fear. You have a few recovery options at your disposal.
If you want to highlight certain points or ideas in your PowerPoint presentation but the laser pointer isn’t quite cutting it, you can try another tactic. Here’s how to draw on your presentation to help get your point across.
Sloppily aligned text and images in a presentation makes everything look amateurish, and in some cases, even difficult to look at. By using this tip, you can make sure everything is evenly aligned.
Customizing your list of recently used files in Excel can be useful. For example, you might want to “pin” a file if you need to access it often, or you might want to see more (or fewer) items in the list. Here are three different ways to customize your list.
If you want to make your Excel spreadsheet less cluttered and more visually appealing, removing gridlines can be a way to do that. Here’s how to do it.
The Clean Up tool, which deletes redundant email messages from folders and conversations, is a great way to declutter your Outlook inbox.
Timelines are a great way to present data in a clear, easy-to-understand way. Here’s an add-in that lets you create professional timelines for your PowerPoint presentation.
Editing received emails in Outlook might seem like an odd thing to do, but it actually can be useful. For example, you can add descriptive keywords to make it easier to find emails later, or annotate messages with notes. Here’s how to do it.
Word clouds are great visual tools because they help communicate ideas in a very direct way, putting the focus on the most important words. Here’s how to add one to your PowerPoint presentation using the Pro Word Cloud add-in.
Instead of typing out the same types of emails over and over again, you can use an Outlook add-in to instantly insert templates with common phrases, reducing the amount of time it takes you to craft emails.
From using OneNote for project management to discovering hidden features in Word, there are tons of ways you can get more out of Office 365. Here’s a look back at this year’s most popular tips.
If you use Excel, there are some key functions that everyone should know, regardless of what industry you work in or what your role is. Here are eight of the most popular and important functions. Once you master these timesavers, you’ll be an Excel pro.
Add-ins are a simple way to enhance the functionality of Outlook and Word. Here are three of our favorite add-ins to help keep you organized and manage your tasks more effectively.
Editing PDF files can be a major hassle. But here’s a simple trick for editing them–and all you need is Microsoft Word.
Sure, Microsoft Word is great for writing essays or project proposals. But here are four things you might not have known you could do in Word. These tips will help you expand Word’s functionality and work faster.
You might use Outlook every day, but are you using it as efficiently as you could be? Here are 5 tricks to help you get the most out of Outlook. 1. …
Everyone has their own particular way they want to see their upcoming appointments displayed on their calendars. Here are a few ways you can customize the appearance of your calendar …
If your Office files are looking drab, try using a template. There are thousands of options, and with a little searching ingenuity, you can find the perfect one for your needs.
With OneNote Online, you can take notes and organize notebooks in a web browser. Here’s a brief introduction to the basics, so you can get up and running in a jiffy.
From using keyboard shortcuts to color coding your tabs, here are five of our favorite tricks in Excel to save time and stay organized.
Using the @ symbol is a quick way to draw people’s attention to important things. Microsoft has rolled this handy feature into Outlook, so here’s how you can use it to get people’s attention in emails and also save time.
If you’re a frequent user of OneNote and you’d like to save some time, here are six helpful keyboard shortcuts for common tasks.
If you’ve ever tried to make your data line up in an Outlook email, you’ve probably spent a lot of time trying to align it without much success. An easier way to do that is by inserting a table right into a message.
PowerPoint has a default slide size, but you don’t have to be limited by it. With this trick, you can custom set your PowerPoint slides to be any size you want.
Excel has several different ways that you can protect or lock your data, but today we’ll focus on how to lock the entire workbook. By protecting it with a password, you prohibit others from adding, moving, deleting, hiding, or renaming worksheets.
Outlook offers autocomplete suggestions when you start to type in email addresses. But if an email address is no longer in use, you might want to remove these autocomplete addresses from the list so they won’t pop up anymore.
If you’re a regular user of Outlook.com and you prefer to work from your online inbox, the Skype plugin lets you make video and voice calls right from your inbox. You don’t even have to open up a different app or close your existing window.
Here’s how to add a trendline to your charts in Excel. It’s a great way to make your charts easily interpreted at a glance, as the line will indicate to viewers where the general trend of your data is pointing.
Keyboard shortcuts can speed up everything you do in Microsoft Outlook. There are tons of shortcuts out there, so today we’ll just focus on one category: navigating between different parts of Outlook.
New to Excel? Don’t worry–we can help. Here are four simple tips that can help you make the most of Excel and improve your efficiency.
Here’s a quick trick in Excel that can be really handy if you’ve started to enter some data in a row, but decide that you’d like it in a column instead (or vice versa). Don’t change it manually–use Excel’s Transpose function instead.
These useful PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts allow you to manipulate your presentation while sharing it with your audience, which can be useful if you need to jump around or adjust on the fly while making a presentation.
Video files tend to take up a lot of space and they can slow down your presentation. If you compress the media files, you can help smooth out the presentation and make the entire file smaller, making it easier to move and share.
When it comes to creating charts, you might be thinking Excel is the way to go. But if you’re just looking to make a simple chart to augment a document, you can do that from right within Word.
Transparent or faded images (watermarks) are great to use as slide backgrounds in a PowerPoint presentation. They add visual interest, but because they’re faded a bit, they won’t dominate or distract from your slide content.
If you have a a PDF with text or images that you’d like to put in a PowerPoint slide, here’s how to do it.
There are lots of great hidden feature tucked away in Microsoft Word that you probably don’t know about. From activating research tools, to changing the page color of documents to reduce eye strain, to easily capturing screenshots, here are three tricks that you will enjoy.
If you’re making slides in PowerPoint and you need images for them, the Pickit add-in is a great solution. Pickit has an extensive library of free curated images, and it integrates right into PowerPoint so you don’t have to leave the program.
The Wunderlist add-in for Outlook is a great way to stay organized. Wunderlist is a to-do list app that allows you to keep track of everything you need to do.
If you have an official document in Word that requires your signature or a signature line, here’s how to create it in a few easy steps.
OneNote is a fantastic tool that you can use to plan and organize conferences, meetings, events, parties, and any in-person gatherings. Here are some expert tips on how to use it effectively.
Email templates in Outlook are a great time-saver. They save you the trouble of writing the same email message over and over again.
ProWritingAid is a Microsoft Word add-in that helps improve your writing in an easy and intuitive way. It gives you feedback on your grammar, sentence structure, word choice, and more.
We can always use a few shortcuts to save time. Here are nine useful keyboard shortcuts to speed up your work in Excel.
If you’re an Evernote user, you’ll find this add-in useful. The Evernote add-in for Outlook lets you save emails to Evernote and organize them in notebooks.
An interesting feature you might not know about is how to import contacts from an Excel spreadsheet into Outlook. This trick makes moving contacts between accounts, employees, or between different pieces of software super easy.
Converting a Microsoft Word document to a PDF file is useful for many reasons. We’ll show you two ways to do it, along with some helpful customization options.
If you’re only using Exchange Online in Office 365, you’re missing out on a lot of other useful functionality. To take a bigger bite out of the Office 365 “waffle,” here are 3 underused (and very useful) services that you should start using.
AutoFilter is a useful tool in Excel for hiding or displaying values using just a few clicks. It’s a quick and easy way to get to the data of interest when working with large spreadsheets.
If you’ve written a long, unwieldy Word document that’s difficult to navigate, creating a table of contents can be very useful for organizing your content. Here’s how to automatically make one.
We’ve covered keyboard shortcuts for Word in the past, but there are still more out there. Here are six more helpful shortcuts to save you time.
Welcome to the eighth and final part of our mini series on the most popular Excel functions. we’ll cover the “MATCH” function, which gives you the position of an item in a range.
In part seven of our mini series on the most popular Excel functions, we’ll cover the “CONCATENATE” function, which combines text from different cells into one cell.
In part six of our mini series on the most popular Excel functions, we’ll cover the “LOOKUP” function, which searches one row or one column.
In part five of our mini series on the most popular Excel functions, we’ll cover the “SUMIF” function, which adds values in a range that meet a specified criteria.
In part four of our mini series on the most popular Excel functions, we’ll cover the “VLOOKUP” function, which is very useful for finding specific information in your worksheet.
In part three of our mini series on the most popular Excel functions, we’ll cover the “COUNTIF” function, which counts the number of cells that meet a certain criteria.
In part two of our mini series on the most popular Excel functions, we’ll cover the “SUM” function, which adds values together.
In this Excel miniseries, we’ll cover the most popular and commonly used functions in Microsoft Excel. This first lesson in our mini series will cover the “IF” function, which checks whether …
Here are some more handy shortcuts for speeding up your workflow in Microsoft Word or Excel. While two of our tips here today are program-specific, the first one is a crossover, and will work in either program.
To make your PowerPoint presentation more engaging, you can spruce it up with multimedia. Here are 7 easy ways you can enhance it with music, images, and videos.
If you create a lot of PowerPoint presentations with specific terminology, you can use this feature to create a miniature shorthand library. You’ll find that your work will take a fraction of the time it used to.
Deleting vs. archiving in Outlook: What’s the difference? We’ll explain how and when you should use each action.
Wading through hundreds or thousands of emails to find specific messages can be difficult. Here are a few tricks of searching in Outlook, so that you can find what you need–fast.
You may already know some of the common keyboard shortcuts for Excel, like filling data down from the cell above. But here 8 lesser-known shortcuts for Excel that’ll help you navigate your spreadsheet like a pro.
You can never learn enough keyboard shortcuts. Here are 7 useful, time-saving ones for Microsoft Word to make your writing and editing process super efficient.
The Quick Access toolbar is the row of commands at the very top of the screen in PowerPoint. You can customize this toolbar and only include the commands you often use, making your workflow more efficient.
If you’ve ever made a few mistakes in PowerPoint and tried to hit “Undo” several times, you may have hit a limit. But you can actually increase the number of undos that you’re allowed to use, making it easier to fix mistakes.
Have you ever accidentally closed PowerPoint and forgot to save your presentation? Don’t worry, all is not lost. Here’s how to recover unsaved presentations in PowerPoint.
You probably know the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, but here are a few little-known shortcuts for Microsoft Word and Excel that you may not have known before. These handy tips will speed up your workflow.
Learn how to take your PowerPoint presentation to the next level. These quick and easy tips will make the content and delivery of your next presentation much more professional.
Microsoft Word comes with a lot of great calendar templates. They’re attractive, functional, and fit well in any document. Customizing and inserting a calendar into your Word document is easy–here’s how to do it.
Here are five quick tips for keeping yourself organized in Outlook. Applying even one of these tips can help you be faster and more functional in your newly organized Outlook inbox.
Email signatures provide helpful contact information and are a great branding tool. Here’s how to create a signature in Outlook (both the Web App and desktop versions). Outlook Web App …
When you’ve created a presentation that you share locally, or even publicly on the web, you can take some steps to prevent people from altering your work. Here are some ways that you can protect your PowerPoint presentation.
Most people know Excel as a powerful number-crunching tool, but you can also use it to make 3D maps. Here’s how to take your data and use it to create a map.
Sometimes your PowerPoint presentation is so incredible that you want the entire world to watch it. Well, they can! Here’s how to broadcast your PowerPoint presentation online so that people everywhere can watch in real time (and also download your slides, if you’d like).
Instead of scrolling through calendar dates to set up meetings or events, you can use natural language to book them in your Outlook Calendar. Just type in something like “next Friday” or “Christmas Eve,” and Outlook will automatically find the right date for you.
You probably use a lot of shortcuts in Word, but what about PowerPoint? Use this secret keyboard shortcuts to speed up your PowerPoint workflow and make your presentations more effective.
This might be a familiar scenario: You get an email in your inbox and the sender needs you to complete a task. Well, you don’t have to manually go in and create a task reminder for yourself. There’s actually an easier way to do this, right from within the email itself.
Here are some little-known features in Microsoft word that will help save you time. We’re all busy people, and it’s time we started applying the “work smarter, not harder” philosophy whenever …
Here are three ways that you can take an average PowerPoint presentation to a truly great one. Hopefully, these three little tricks will help you create memorable lectures, pitches, or presentations.
Here’s a very handy add-in for Powerpoint that allows your audience to interact with you and your presentation in real time. It only requires that your audience have access to …
Today we’ll show you how to export your data in Outlook to a .pst file. A .pst file stores your Outlook data in an external file so you can archive it, back it up on secondary or external storage platforms, or move it to other systems.
To be more productive in Excel, all you need is one key: the F5 key. It allows you to move much more quickly through your workbook, and also efficiently select very specific …
Here’s how to send encrypted messages in Outlook. Encryption provides an extra layer of security for your messages, ensuring that only the intended recipient will be able to decipher the message and read its contents.
You can do a lot with Outlook add-ins, like scheduling meetings at Starbucks, setting Uber ride reminders, and scheduling emails to send later. Here are three helpful add-ins that can help you do all of the above.
Filtering and sorting emails manually in Outlook can be a very time-consuming task. Luckily, to save time, you can set up rules, which are policies that perform specific actions when certain criteria are met. Here’s how to do it.
Today we’ll show you how to export your contacts from Outlook. This is helpful if you’re transitioning to a new system or need a method for backing up important contacts.
Word Online isn’t just a simple online word processor. To get the full value of the product, here are a few things you can do with Word Online that you can’t do in the desktop version of Word.
Getting a little tired of the default fonts that come with Microsoft Word? You can add and install new fonts to inject some personality into your work. It’s simple–here’s how to do it.
To get the most out of Microsoft Word, you can install add-ins for extra functionalities. Here are three helpful add-ins to make your writing process a bit easier and your documents more consistent.
You’ve probably updated a meeting invitation in Outlook before. But to reduce email clutter, you can stop Outlook from sending unnecessary meeting updates to all your participants. Here’s how to do it.
Tables are great organizational tools within OneNote, and they work quite similarly to what you’re used to in other Microsoft programs. Here’s how to use them.
Outlook has a handy feature that allows you to designate a different email address for replies to be sent to. Here’s how to set it up.
If too many emails have piled up in your Outlook inbox, here’s a quick way to clean it up. We’ll show you how to mark all messages as read at once.
Creating a custom template in OneNote is an excellent way to speed up your workflow. You can just create a new page using your pre-set templates, so you can start working right away without having to adjust any of your page settings beforehand.
Sniffer might be a funny name, but it’s a useful feature in Outlook. It automatically processes certain kinds of email messages like meeting requests and polls, and it can save you lots …
Instead of investing in costly project management software, how about using a free program like Microsoft OneNote? This post focuses on tips for the office, but personal and school projects can be managed with OneNote using many of these same key principles.
With different versions of Microsoft Office available, it can be hard to keep track of all the useful features that it has to offer. We’re here to help! We’ll be walking you through seven up-to-date tips to help you get the most out of your Office 365 user experience.
Today, we’re going to tell you about Word Quick Parts and why you should be using them. Quick Parts is a feature in Microsoft Word that allows you to essentially create a library of content that you use regularly, and then access it at any time to quickly pull it into a document.
If you’d like to learn how to spruce up your outgoing emails sent in Outlook, you can add a background image to them. It’s a nice way to inject a sense of fun …
Many of us have our favorite fonts that we like to use, and if that happens to be something other than the default font in Microsoft Word, it can be tedious to manually change that every time you open up a new document. Luckily, there’s a relatively easy way to change the default font in Microsoft Word.
You might already know how to use conditional formatting in Excel, but you can use icon sets to make it even more visually powerful. These icons correspond to your conditional formatting and they come in a variety of colors and shapes. By using them in your spreadsheets, you can instantly highlight patterns and trends in your data.
You can schedule a lot in Outlook Calendar: meetings, appointments, and events, just to name a few. But how are they different from each other, and when do you use each one? Here’s a quick overview that explains each one in more detail.
Although Excel has a lot of great basic chart formats, they can be too general to be useful for many real-world applications. For a more customized approach, here’s how to save your …
Here are five tips for Microsoft Word that are designed to be quick and efficient time-savers. When you start to learn these tricks and they become second nature, you’ll find that all of your work in Word will get faster and faster.
If you find yourself making the same types of PowerPoint presentations often, you can save time by creating your own template from an existing presentation. This way, all you have to do is set up and customize the slides the way you’d like, and then you can save that template and use it for any presentations going forward.
To minimize the possibility of losing your work during a crash, here’s how to set your Microsoft Office documents to autosave every minute. This is a very fast save interval, but it will create an almost seamless backup history of your documents.
Sometimes, if you’re working on a presentation in PowerPoint, the standard shapes in the program might not suit your needs. We’ll show you how to merge multiple shapes to create your own custom shapes.
Here’s a technique that might come in handy if you’re working on a large Word document with a lot of images. You’ll learn how to find all of the images within a Word document and replace those images with a new one.
When you’re working in Excel, there are a few tricks you can use to save time and stay efficient and organized. Here are three fast, simple tips. Color code your tabs …
When you’re animating a PowerPoint presentation, you’re not limited to the stock animations that come preloaded with PowerPoint. If you want to create a custom animation to achieve a very specific effect, you have that option, and here’s how to do it.
If you’ve ever worked with a large PowerPoint or Word document and needed to save all of the image files within the project for other uses, you know that it …
If you’re writing a Word document and need to insert placeholder text into a template or outline, there’s an easy way to generate sample text. Sure, you can type your …
If you want to combine a PowerPoint presentation with another one that you’ve previously made, this is a fairly easy trick. It’s simple to import another existing presentation into the one …
Shapes are a great way to make a PowerPoint presentation as visual as possible, giving you clear areas that draw the eye and make information easy to understand. To add …
Normally, pages in a Word document have either a portrait or a landscape orientation. You might think that you can’t mix and match these two orientations in the same document, but …
The post-it is one of the most recognizable shapes around. We all recognize that yellow square as a universal indicator that something is important and that we should remember it. …
Flowcharts are a useful way to visually explain a process using symbols and text. Here are the basics on how to get started building flowcharts and where to find the customization …
Adding and subtracting units of time in Excel can be a useful thing to know how to do. Whether you’re adding up employee timesheets, or doing calculations regarding the use …
Calculating the amount of time between two dates is slightly more complicated than calculating the difference between other types of numbers. However, Microsoft Excel has a function that’s designed specifically to calculate the amount of time in between two dates.
There’s a function that not many people know about hidden within Microsoft Word. This is the “spike” function, and it’s a really practical way to cut and paste text. You can …
Sometimes your document in Microsoft Word might need a little visual splash. If that’s the case, you can easily add shapes and SmartArt to jazz up your work. Here’s a …
Adding a watermark to your Excel document is a great way to protect your confidential information. Placing a watermark on material makes it more difficult for people to appropriate your …
If you’ve ever copied and pasted some text into Microsoft Excel from an external source, you might have seen the spacing go awry. Nobody wants extra spaces and line breaks …
Here’s a trick that many people don’t know about. When you’re writing a document in Microsoft Word, you might need to do a few quick calculations. Sure, you could open …
Ah, the joy of working with Google Apps organizations and Office 365 organizations. While this situation may appear to be painful at first, it’s actually as simple as a click …
Office 365 Groups provide a platform for collaboration that didn’t exist in previous versions of the Office suite. Groups function like a distribution list of the past, but with dramatically …
If you’re an Office 365 user whose organization leverages Egnyte for secure file storage, you’re in luck. Office documents can now be co-authored right inside Egnyte; no more switching between …
Auditing and reporting across all Office 365 services has improved in recent months. Administrators can take advantage of some of the improvements with services available in the Compliance Center, like …
Collaborating on Office documents stored outside of Office 365 once seemed impossible, but recent integrations have made this possible. Citrix ShareFile users don’t have to shift to their Office 365 …
Conditional formatting is an Excel feature that allows you to do just what it sounds like: apply different formatting to data depending on various conditions. It can come in handy …
Have you ever seen a PowerPoint presentation with animations that seem straight out of a movie studio? Undoubtedly it used motion path animation, which is a fun feature of PowerPoint …
Excel spreadsheets frequently remain digital, and for good reason. Spreadsheet data is often vast and requires manipulation (sorting, filtering, formatting) that is better done on a PC or other device. …
Most of us have been to a meeting or training in which the presenter hands out a stapled packet of their slides in printed format, often with an empty section …
Data loss prevention is a crucial responsibility for Office 365 administrators. Microsoft offers a variety of features and tools to keep your Office 365 data secure, but a lot of …
One of the most exciting features of Sway is the ability to insert content from a variety of different sources, like Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, and more. But as an Office …
Admins, if you’ve activated Yammer for your Office 365 tenant, did you know you can also use Yammer in place of the SharePoint Newsfeed? Depending on the settings in your …
Google and Microsoft, two of the world’s biggest companies, are battling to win in the workplace, but which company has the upper hand? Our latest Trends in Cloud IT research offers new insight and data about the budding saga.
You’ve finally finished the first slide in your PowerPoint presentation. The formatting, colors, and transitions are, in a word, perfection…and now you only have 27 slides to go. Never fear! …
Changing the paper size in Word is as easy as visiting the Page Layout tab. But why would you want to change the paper size? Well, if your content isn’t …
Click here to watch this video on YouTube. The Reports tab in the Office 365 Compliance Center contains a variety of rich information sources for administrators. There you’ll find reports …
If you’ve ever pasted data onto an Excel spreadsheet from an external source, you’ve probably faced the frustration of superfluous blank rows and columns. No matter the reason for your …
Welcome to the BetterCloud Monitor! Now, you may be new to the site, but chances are, you’ve heard of 365 Ninja. 365 Ninja began as a site devoted to providing …
There are a lot features available in the New Message Window in Outlook on a Mac. In this video, we provide an overview of the available options and dig a …
Mail Merge is a powerful tool in Microsoft Word that can quickly become your best friend when you’re sending out thank you cards or holiday cards, making labels, or emailing …
Beginning to build a presentation PowerPoint can be quite a journey and an undertaking. To make it easier along the way, use these four shortcuts to move swiftly while you …
Chances are high that you’ve recently received a phishing email in your inbox. Did you detect it as a fraud immediately? Phishing is a fraudulent attempt to trick individuals into …
It’s hard to switch browsers when we’re comfortable with what we’re used to. But knowledge is power and it’s healthy to know your browser options. Microsoft Edge is the new browser available in Windows 10.
The Office 365 admin center has a new preview available for you to take a test drive. In the preview, you are able to navigate through the admin center, see, …
Real-time messaging has changed the way employees communicate, mostly for the better. However, there’s surprising data we uncovered that shows another side, which isn’t quite as rosy.
There’s no need to download special software or hire someone to take care of your event invitations. You’re able to do it all in Word! Here are the videos you …
Technology offers a lot of tools to help you design and present visually attractive work. But you don’t need to be a professional designer or have pricey, complicated software to give your work the style it deserves. PowerPoint has many built-in tools that make editing photos and images a breeze.
Snail mail has its time and place. Whether you use snail mail for wedding invitations, holiday cards, or a sincere thank you card, sending and a receiving a physical piece of mail can be really meaningful.
OneNote is a fan favorite Microsoft application that comes in several different packages. There’s OneNote for Desktop, which is included in most Office 365 business plans, OneNote on the web, OneNote for Windows, Android, and iOS devices, and OneNote for Windows 10.
As an Office 365 for Business user, you might use Office 365 for business at work but at home you can take advantage of Microsoft’s free services like Outlook.com. Outlook.com …
Outlook on the Web Shortcuts will help you navigate Outlook on any web browser. If you’re away from your main computer and need to log in to another computer, these true and tested keyboard shortcuts will make you feel comfortable and productive, even if you can’t use your Outlook desktop app.
The more interesting your PowerPoint slides are, the more engaged your audience will be. A great way to spice up your bullet points or images in a slide is to not only add animation, but to also add audio to the animation.
The CTRL button is a powerful tool in Excel. While you may have the menu options memorized, keyboard shortcuts can save you some extra clicks. Once you have these CTRL commands memorized, we guarantee that your productivity will increase in Excel.
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that customers with 50-149 seats of Office 365 enterprise and small business plans can now join Microsoft FastTrack. Prior to February, FastTrack was only available …
There are many shortcuts to learn in Outlook, and some come in handy more than others. If you receive a lot of emails, it’s likely you frequently use the search function. These shortcuts will help you navigate your inbox faster and effectively.
Attaching an email to another email is a helpful task to know when in Outlook for Mac. Referencing another email becomes a lot easier when it is sent as an attachment and you don’t have to scour through your inbox to find it.
WhatsApp is a popular mobile communication app that you can use to send messages and make phone calls through Wi-Fi. It’s grown in popularity internationally and has likely been suggested …
Recently, we published the Office 365 Shortcuts Pack. This pack of PDFs lists hundreds of keyboard shortcuts in Excel, OneNote, Outlook, Outlook on the Web, PowerPoint and Word. In the OneNote Shortcuts PDF, the 150+ timesavers are divided into nine different categories to make sure you are efficient in all scopes of OneNote.
When you’re working on a piece of art, it’s natural to want to frame it to help with the presentation. The same should go for your Word documents. Word is a great canvas for you to craft your documents and eventual PDFs, so why not put a frame on it?
A signature may be considered the most important part of an email. It’s where a recipient can locate the correct spelling of your last name, your mailing address to send..
In today’s workplace, the traditional meeting just doesn’t cut it anymore. Co-workers and clients are spread across the globe in remote offices and workers do business on phones and tablets while traveling between cities. Thanks to the modern meeting, in-person collaboration doesn’t have to take place “in-person” at all.
GIFs get straight to the details, especially when it comes to describing exactly how you feel. Whether it’s a response to an office announcement or a reaction to an upcoming company event, GIFs make great additions to emails. Watch the video above and follow the steps below to learn how to add a GIF to your email message in Outlook on the Web.
There’s lots of different programs you can use to build an org chart, but since you spend a lot of time already in Office apps, it makes sense to use …
Microsoft made several announcements this month that are tailored for Apple users. First, there are several new features available for Office 365 apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPad Pro 2. …
Formatting is a great way to annotate an Excel spreadsheet. Whether you’ve added a comment to a certain cell to call attention, or bolded the line items most important to …
The 2016 State of Cloud IT Report is the most in-depth research we’ve ever produced. More than 40,000 people have read the report in its entirety.
There’s a lot to do in a day’s work and there are many ways to create your to-do list. But how to create the best to-do list? We’re here to …
Outlook calendar is continuing to add to its list of personal assistant attributes. Beginning this month, Outlook will begin reading your mind. Well, not exactly, but it’s going to be …
All good skills take some practice, and the art of the screenshot is an important skill to learn. Incorporating a screenshot or screen clipping into your documents is a skill …
Ever need to pull in an image into your Word doc but don’t want to go through the hassle of taking the screenshot and then importing the image into Word? Now …
Throughout history, great figures like Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, and Helen Keller each had a habit of journaling. Even today, business and thought leaders are advocates and practitioners of journaling, …
This day in age we consume a lot of content through emails, whether it’s an email with text, memes, or all of the above. Incorporating screenshots into your Outlook message …
A PowerPoint deck is a prime example of an Office document that brings together many types of rich media. And when you have a presentation with more than 20 slides, importing …
The new year is underway, but let’s not forget about what took place over the course of 2015. Last year was a banner year for cloud office systems. We saw …
You know that tab at the bottom of your Outlook called Tasks? It’s a tab full of features to help you organize all of your flagged emails and create a …
We’ve all heard the saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Oftentimes, a screenshot can speak a thousand words and be the perfect addition to your Excel spreadsheet. In Excel, including …
There are many documents that require a signature like a lease, medical forms, and basically anything official in your life. When you need to make a document that requires a …
The winners are in! The year of 2015 was a hot year for content about OneNote, Outlook, and Word. These top performing articles brought in over 200,000 new and returning readers to …
New Office 365 E5 Plan Makes Its Debut At WPC this summer, Microsoft released the news that a new top-tier enterprise plan was being released: E5 would replace E4. In …
You’ve got to-do lists in OneNote, task lists in Outlook, and who knows what other kinds of lists throughout the Office suite. But what about SharePoint lists? They’re a fundamental …
What day of the week is New Year’s Eve this year…? Outlook can help you keep track of regular holidays (specific to your country, too), but the option is not enabled …
In Excel, it’s always much more of a pleasure to view a spreadsheet that is clean, concise, and easy to read. Whether you’re looking at a spreadsheet you created yourself, or …
Posting to the newsfeed on your team’s (or organization’s) SharePoint site is as simple as typing your message and clicking Post. You can include a lot more in a newsfeed post …
Today, there are dozens of platforms and publishing options if you wish to create a blog. But if you’re seeking to blog for an internal audience in your organization, creating …
Have you ever sent out an invite to a large group of people, and shortly after sending the invite, your inbox becomes flooded with RSVP emails? That’s because in your …
Keeping track of every bit of information on your Office 365 users can quickly become a handful. To filter through users based off the type of license they have, or to …
Ever need to create an intelligent folder that collects all of your unread emails without having to search through your inbox? With a search folder, you can do just that. …
Need to crunch some numbers while you’re taking notes at a presentation? Or are you taking notes in your math class and want to make a side note calculation? OneNote …
