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What is Microsoft 365? Everything You Need to Know

Office 365 is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product from Microsoft that provides subscribers with the Microsoft Office desktop apps for Windows and macOS, and online business services like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Exchange Online. But in this article, I’m going to be answering the question what is Microsoft 365? Microsoft...

Last Update: Feb 08, 2023

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Microsoft Plans to Block All Downloaded Excel XLL Add-Ins

Microsoft is planning to make its Office apps more secure by blocking all Excel XLL add-ins downloaded from the internet. The company explained that this move should help to prevent malicious actors from abusing this popular avenue to target Microsoft 365 customers worldwide. Essentially, XLL files are dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) that enable users to use…

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Planner Supports Export to Excel

Last Update: Oct 13, 2022

Excel fans delight! You can now export task data for a Planner plan to Excel and slice and dice the task information to your heart’s content. The new feature is likely to be popular with Office 365 users because it adds values and it makes sense to use Excel for this purpose, but another way of looking at it is that Planner is so poor at analysis and reporting that it needed external help. The truth probably lies in the middle.

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Microsoft to Move Office Apps to Monthly Updates for Enterprise Customers

Microsoft has announced in a message on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that it will automatically begin updating all devices with Office apps to the Monthly Enterprise Channel next month. The Redmond giant is urging commercial customers to get ready for the move for various reasons, based on user feedback. The Monthly Enterprise Channel allows…

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Top Petri News Posts of 2021

Microsoft unveiled a slew of new consumer and enterprise-focused products and services in 2021. It’s been a big year for the company with the most significant announcements such as Windows 11, Teams 2.0, a new Visio web app, and an affordable Windows on Arm development kit. Here’s a look at everything you need to know….

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Smooth Scrolling Comes to Excel for Windows

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’…

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New Notes and Comments Functionality Rolling Out to Excel on the Web

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…

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New ‘Show Changes’ feature Coming to Excel for the Web

One of Microsoft Excel’s Project Managers (PMs) on the Office Insider team recently published another ‘Feature deep dive‘. They announced a coming feature called Show Changes, which will allow authors more confidence when sharing and collaborating with others on Excel for the Web. ‘Show Changes’ will allow users sharing Excel files on OneDrive or SharePoint…

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Excel’s new ‘Data Types’ Feature is the Apps Biggest Update in Years

If there is one app in the Office 365 suite that keeps people coming back to the productivity tools it is not Teams, but Excel. The spreadsheet application is easy to use, highly flexible, and in many companies around the world, worksheets are a structural part of the operational workflow. Last year, when XLOOKUP was…

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Microsoft’s New Excel Feature Will Automate All Your Redundant Tasks

Microsoft has a new scripting feature for Excel and it’s going to make automating redundant tasks significantly easier.

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