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Setting up your design space in PowerPoint
PowerPoint design and presentations have been a major part of most of our work lives for quite some time now. However, not everyone is leveraging this powerful corporate presentation tool to its fullest. For designers, it's often a frustrating environment, where Photoshop and other Adobe [...]
Templates in Microsoft Teams: An Easy Way to Customize Teams in your Organization
Now that workplaces are increasing their online and work-from-home capabilities, Microsoft Teams is an important tool for ensuring information is delivered efficiently and effectively, and your people stay connected. It is hard for some users to understand their tasks, ask questions, and stay focused while [...]
PowerApps: Using the Accordion Layout to Digitalize Forms
Nowadays, digitizing forms is not as simple as copying the current layout and design from paper-based documents. The purpose of digitizing should help make the form easier for the end-user to navigate and complete—not to give them a headache. Not only does digitalizing allow employees [...]
Foster empathy in your team by ending your Teams meetings 5 minutes earlier
Since the move to the cloud and the adoption of a hybrid office for remote work, we have found that there are days where we get back to back to back to back meetings. This leaves no time for washroom breaks, snack breaks, catch up [...]
How to Invite Hotmail and Gmail Users to a Microsoft Teams Meeting
Working remotely has been such a pleasure, right? Telecommuting as a concept has had a positive impact on the business environment, allowing organizations and their employees to be productive in remote locations. While the benefits of telecommuting are unprecedented and significant, working remotely has also [...]
PowerApps: How-To Create a Temporary Delete Function within a Gallery
The gallery in PowerApps is a customizable tool used to share important information from a SharePoint list. This can include emails and names of new leads, or information about your largest and most loyal clients. Accidentally losing that information could be extremely inconvenient. Oftentimes, we [...]
4 non-meeting related communication tips for Microsoft Teams
When you think about Microsoft Teams, the first thing that comes to mind is probably something along the lines of hosting meetings or chatting with co-workers – but there's so much more to it. Microsoft Teams promotes efficiency and productivity within your workspace through a variety of features – no meetings required! Let’s take a [...]
Improve Your Remote Leadership with Microsoft Teams
Leadership is not always an easy skill to acquire. For some, it comes naturally but for many, it must be taught. The tricky part about leadership, however, is that remote leadership is completely different. A manager can't just walk by to get a quick update [...]
6 practical tips for using Microsoft Teams to its full potential
What’s one thing that we could all use a little more of (and no I’m not talking about money)? Time. It can be hard to fit in work, family, a social life, physical activity (sometimes) all into one day. That’s why most people tend to [...]
Leverage Microsoft Forms during Teams Meetings
At this point, we’re all well aware of the struggles that arise when trying to ask a question during a large remote meeting. Either someone forgets to go off mute, there’s background noise or everyone starts talking at once – we’ve all been there. Microsoft Teams presents a much simpler option of asking a [...]
What is Microsoft Bookings?
We all live hectic professional lives, and finding ways to win back precious time is essential. Booking meetings in the corporate world should be an Olympic sport. Stop wasting precious time communicating back and forth to book meetings! Microsoft Bookings allows you and your customers [...]
Why brand your virtual background in Microsoft Teams
These days practically everyone is connecting through virtual meetings. They provide the flexibility that so many people desire, even though we were slightly forced into it. However, some may say that despite all the benefits of virtual meetings, they still fall a little flat. They [...]
5 quick tips to increase your efficiency in Microsoft Teams
We all have a few routine tasks and features we access in Microsoft Teams, depending on how you use the app and for what purpose. Believe it or not, there are still many people only using MS Teams for the purpose of chats and online [...]
4 overlooked meeting options in Microsoft Teams
Organizing and attending Microsoft Teams meetings have now become everyone's job. We all hold so many video calls each day, it'd be a bummer if we didn't know how to leverage all the right meeting options! While we are busy working in these meetings, Microsoft [...]
Microsoft Word tips for students- reference tools and resume assistance
To many students, Microsoft Word is just an app to type and create documents for projects or fan fiction. If you're one of those people, you're in for a treat! Whether you're looking to use it for your daily life, or for business reasons, Microsoft [...]
How to find file versions in Microsoft Teams
I'm sure you've been in a situation where you accidentally click a button and all of the sudden, it's as if you're looking at a completely different document and you're wondering to yourself, what have I done? Believe it or not, you're not alone. This [...]
Using Microsoft Planner for managing project tasks
It should come as no surprise that organizations that have a project management process are far more likely to deliver projects on time and under budget than those that don't. Despite this seemingly obvious fact, it's surprising is that only 46% of organizations actually do [...]
Publishing project status updates in Microsoft Teams
Every organization has a variety of projects, whether they're internal or external, with clients or partners - it can get overwhelming, fast. It can be easy to lose track of your progress on a project while juggling all your other priorities in and outside of [...]
How to configure Run After command in Microsoft Power Automate
The purpose of Microsoft Power Automate is to make your life easier. Automating tasks removes the manual work and ensures that your time is being used in the best way possible. With Power Automate the possibilities are endless. However, seeing as we don't have an [...]
Microsoft Teams detox for the holidays
Another year has passed and the holidays are in sight. For many people, the prominence of Microsoft Teams has only become more apparent. 145 million people use Microsoft Teams daily - that's no small number. While this is great and means that more and more [...]
