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NEW TECH FEATURES
Excel, Teams, Power BI, Canva, Zoom, Google Sheets++: New tech features for Sep-Dec 2024
- Article
- Dec 2024
- David Benaim
Our digest of new features across Microsoft 365 & other business tech products in written, images & video format covering the last three months.
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Unsend your emails
- Article
- Oct 2024
- Simon Hurst
Inspired by a recent catastrophic email event that made the national news, we once again abandon Excel to look at another Office application, this time Microsoft Outlook. In particular, we see how Outlook can help to protect us from ourselves.
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The one click solution to all your Word problems
- Article
- Sep 2024
- Simon Hurst
We venture outside the world of Excel to examine how you can resolve all your Word issues with a single mouse click or keyboard shortcut.
NEW TECH FEATURES
Excel, Teams, Power BI, Canva, Zoom, Google Sheets++: New tech features for Jun-Aug 2024
- Article
- Sep 2024
- David Benaim
Our digest of new features across Microsoft 365 & other business tech products in written, images & video format covering the last three months.
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Presenting for the 2020s with PowerPoint and AI apps
- Webinar
- Jul 2024
PowerPoint MVP & YouTuber David Benaim highlights his favourite features of PowerPoint, and showcases some game-changing AI tools for image manipulation.
NEW TECH FEATURES
New tech features for Mar-May 2024
- Article
- Jun 2024
- David Benaim
David Benaim presents a digest of new features across Microsoft 365 and other business tech products in written, images and video format, covering the last three months.
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Including calculations in Microsoft Word
- Article
- Mar 2024
- Simon Hurst
Excel might be the obvious application for all sorts of calculations, but Word also has a calculation feature based on Field Codes that can perform simple calculations, use some functions and also format the result.
NEW TECH FEATURES
New tech features for Nov-Feb 2024
- Article
- Mar 2024
- David Benaim
David Benaim presents a digest of new features across Microsoft 365 and other business tech products in written, images and video format, covering the last three months.
Microsoft Loop: Edit things from multiple entry points
- Article
- Feb 2024
- David Benaim
Collaborating between apps has always been one of the weakest points of Microsoft Office. Loop Components allows users to edit a bullet list whilst in an Outlook email, whilst others edit in Teams’ meeting notes and it will update simultaneously in all places.
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Office Scripts vs VBA: What’s the difference?
- Article
- Feb 2024
- Mark Proctor
Office Scripts are a new scripting language for automating Excel. In this article, Mark Proctor explores how Office Scripts differ to VBA and what we can or cannot do with each.
Microsoft 365 Copilot or get the features without the pricey license
- Article
- Jan 2024
- David Benaim
Chat GPT style conversational AI in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more Microsoft 365 apps finally launched, some have access but at a price of $20 for Copilot Pro or $30 per month for Copilot for Microsoft 365 (the GBP price is not yet published at the time of writing), is it worth it? This article (or jump to the end of the article for a summary table) will cover Microsoft 365 Copilot’s capabilities and also describe alternative ways, beat for beat, to get to the same features, however, this is a non-exhaustive list based on capabilities in early 2024.
NEW TECH FEATURES
New tech features for Sep - Nov 2023
- Article
- Dec 2023
- David Benaim
David Benaim presents a digest of new features across Microsoft 365 and other business tech products in written, images and video format, covering the last three months.
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EXCEL TIP OF THE WEEK
Excel Tips & Tricks #483 – Presenting tabular Excel data in PowerPoint
- Article
- Nov 2023
- Thomas Edmunds
Hello all and welcome back to Excel Tips and Tricks! This week, we have a General User post covering different ways tabular data in Excel can be presented in PowerPoint.
NEW TECH FEATURES
New tech features for Jun - Aug 2023
- Article
- Sep 2023
- David Benaim
David Benaim presents a digest of new features across Microsoft 365 & other business tech products in written, images & video format covering the last three month.
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Canva: The AI infused design and productivity suite newcomer
- Article
- Aug 2023
- David Benaim
Canva is a groundbreaking productivity suite which started out as a graphic design tool has exploded onto the business software scene.
Comparing the New Outlook and the classic Desktop Outlook
- Article
- Jul 2023
- David Benaim
Outlook has been a staple to office workers for decades, and Microsoft has maintained distinct web and desktop versions for the last decade or so. But this is all set to change with the 'classic' Outlook Desktop to be retired. Here, David Benaim, Microsoft MVP, goes through the comparable features of New Outlook and Classic Outlook.
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Don’t expect too much from AI, after all, it’s not only human…
- Article
- Jul 2023
- Simon Hurst
Whether you consider AI to be the beginning of the end for the human race, or a massive opportunity to improve all aspects of life and work, it’s been hard to ignore it recently. In this example Simon Hurst seeks the help of ChatGPT with a simple calculation and receives answers that are worrying, impressive and puzzling, all at the same time.
NEW TECH FEATURES
New tech features for Mar - May 2023
- Article
- Jun 2023
- David Benaim
David Benaim presents a digest of new features across Microsoft 365 & other business tech products in written, images & video format covering the last three month.
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Teams Premium: Add-on with better meeting functionality
- Article
- Apr 2023
- David Benaim
Workplace staple Microsoft teams has now released a paid tier which has additional meeting features. In this blog I explain through written, image and video which additional features the paid tier gets you.
A robust data entry table in Google Sheets
- Article
- Feb 2023
- David Benaim
One key aspect to robust data entry is Data Validation, and Google Sheets’ version got a hefty upgrade last month making it far superior to Excel’s equivalent. Watch the video or see the descriptions with updated tips.
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