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13 tips to get the most out of Microsoft Whiteboard
For Microsoft 365 users, it’s worth adding Microsoft Whiteboard to your collaboration playbook. Here’s how your team can make the most of this digital whiteboard tool.
Handy Outlook keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Mac
Speed up your email, contacts, and calendar tasks with the help of keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Outlook for Windows or macOS.
Users unable to access Outlook, Teams in another M365 outage
Microsoft’s Office software suite saw users unable to access Outlook on the web, Teams, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint for over eight hours in Microsoft 365's seventh outage this year.
Microsoft launches Apple community for IT admins
Microsoft says it is seeing "phenomenal growth and customer interest in macOS management," so it has created an online community for Mac admins using Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Edge is getting a bit pushy
Interface changes, new AI features, and integrations with Microsoft 365 are rolling out to Edge in dribbles, which can be confusing for users and cause headaches for admins.
OneNote vs. Evernote: A personal take on two great note-taking apps
Evernote and Microsoft OneNote have taken different approaches in their quest to be the best note-taking app. Here’s where each one shines.
Microsoft’s M365 Copilot AI assistant gets third-party app integrations
Plugin extensions will let users of Microsoft’s productivity suite hook the app into third-party apps from vendors including Atlassian, ServiceNow, and Mural.
Microsoft 365 suffers another outage, its sixth this year
The outage impacted users primarily in North America, Poland, and the UK, though users in other regions may also have been affected.
How to use Excel formulas and functions
Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions.
Microsoft adds M365 Copilot to more apps, extends customer trial to 600 firms
Hundreds of customers will be able to access Copilot in a paid early access trial as the generative AI assistant is rolled out more widely across the Microsoft 365 app suite.
Microsoft refreshes SharePoint and OneDrive with Copilot integration
The company announced updates to OneDrive, Microsoft Stream, and Microsoft Lists while bringing Copilot to SharePoint.
How to use Microsoft Loop in Outlook and Teams
Sharing portable content snippets called Loop components is a smart way to collaborate across Microsoft 365 apps. Here’s why they’re so useful and how to use them in Outlook and Teams.
Microsoft touts Windows 365 Frontline: 1 subscription for up to 3 workers
Windows 365 Frontline is aimed at hybrid workforces that perform shift and frontline work, and whose employees may need to switch out computers as they come and go without losing customized settings and data.
Excel for Microsoft 365 cheat sheet
Learn to use the best new features in Excel for Microsoft 365/Office 365 in Windows.
Microsoft customers locked out of Azure and M365 services due to geolocation error
Microsoft was forced to apologize on Thursday after implementing a change that saw customers around the globe unable to access its services.
How to train your chatbot through prompt engineering
While most large language models like OpenAI's GPT-4 are pre-filled with massive amounts of information, 'prompt engineering' allows generative AI to be tailored for specific industry or even organizational use.
Generative AI comes to Office: What it means (and who’s at risk)
Microsoft's AI efforts took a big step forward this week with the unveiling of Microsoft 365 Copilot. It promises to be a big productivity boost, if users know what they're doing.
Microsoft: 365 Copilot chatbot is the AI-based future of work
Microsoft today demonstrated the many uses of its new 365 Copilot chatbot based on GPT-4, and the company introduced a new generative AI-based feature called Business Chat.
Microsoft's tiny Word improvement is a big productivity boost
Microsoft is at last making it much easier to copy and paste plain text with a keyboard shortcut.
Microsoft touts new GPT-powered chatbot for Dynamics 365 CRM, ERP apps
A new AI-based extension to the company's Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP platform can automatically generate answers to customer emails, suggest marketing and sales campaigns, and summarize Teams chat threads and documents.