Office

Have you ever been scrolling through a large Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and stopped because you came across some cells with important data and it whips right past you? Well, Microsoft Excel engineers have been working to enhance this aspect of Excel for a long time. When they set out to ‘put the idea to code’…

Microsoft’s Office 365 suite is the crown jewel of Software-as-a-Service. The productivity suite was launched a decade ago and now has more than 300 million paid commercial seats and today, the company is announcing a price increase for many of the tiers of the service. During the past decade, Microsoft has improved the suite by…

On one of Microsoft’s Office Insider blogs, a PM on the Excel team recently announced new functionality in the helpfully consistent evolution of Comments and Notes. Specifically, the debut of yellow sticky comments, now called Notes, in Excel for the web. There are also some new additions around threaded comments and the notes experience in…

Late last week, Microsoft announced Windows 11 and with it comes a significant update to the user interface. Today, the company is unveiling updates coming to Office that will update the interface to match that of the upcoming OS. If you are an Office Insider, you will soon see a new design that looks familiar…

For years, Microsoft has been pitching Office 365 and eventually Microsoft 365 as the premier productivity suite for individuals and corporations. The suite of tools provides robust solutions for creating, documenting, controlling, and securing corporate content but one of the company’s own apps has been on the outside looking in from the basic SKUs. Visio,…

Microsoft’s OneDrive document sync and storage service is the backbone for many users’ and keeping data synced across devices is the primary feature of this tool. To put it simply, put your content in OneDrive and it will be available on nearly any type of device that you will use for productivity purposes. But from…

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.

You’re running late prepping for a meeting…your supervisor asked you to whip up a short PowerPoint slide deck for your part of the presentation…You forgot! Scrambling, you add a few boxes, ovals, and polygon shapes for some key data but you’re spending an inordinate amount of time trying to get all your graphic elements to…

Microsoft has a new tool that will make it easier for companies to migration from Box to OneDrive/SharePoint.

Microsoft announced some new Insights features coming to Teams earlier this year and at their Ignite conference last week. They recently offered a little more detail and rollout plans for their personal wellbeing features.