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There’s a lot to learn in Power Apps, and the best way to do that is to get some hands-on practice. Microsoft’s model-driven sample apps make this a breeze, offering three fully-built apps that you can install in a new environment, complete with sample data.…

Just the other day, I needed to calculate ages for several people based on their date of birth. Rather than doing this manually, I set up an Excel spreadsheet and made use of the DATEDIF function to do the work for me.…

It’s common to need to add a watermark to a Microsoft Word document—either some text (like “DRAFT” or “CONFIDENTIAL”) or a picture, such as a company logo.…

It seems like I always need to remove picture backgrounds and make them transparent—for use in a presentation, a website or a printout. Microsoft PowerPoint offers two easy ways to do that from the Picture Format tab—no extra software required.…

Animated GIFs are everywhere today—from Facebook, Twitter, Slack, emails and more. And while there are various tools out there to create them, perhaps the easiest is right under your nose: Microsoft PowerPoint.…

Whether you’re mailing holiday cards or sending invitations to a wedding, you need a way to easily create mailing labels. Microsoft Word makes this easy to do, using a mail merge that pulls address information from Microsoft Excel.…

Are you looking for a job? Well, then you need a resumé! And Microsoft Word has a lot of templates to choose from. In a hands-on demo, I’ll show you how to: 00:00 – Video intro 00:11 – View all resumé templates available 01:06 – Create a new resumé from a template 02:05 – Update picture, text and skills data on a resumé…

It’s common to need to edit a PDF document—but how? You can convert it into a Microsoft Word document and then do your edits there. In a hands-on demo, I’ll show you how to: 00:00 – Video intro 00:53 – Convert a native or true PDF 02:14 – Convert a scanned PDF…

The applications that make up Microsoft Dynamics 365 do a lot, and have also changed a lot over the years (formerly Dynamics CRM, Customer Engagement, Dynamics ERP, and more).…

In the good ol’ days, the only way to convert a PowerPoint deck to a PDF was with extra software. But these days, Microsoft makes things easy for us by baking that functionality right into PowerPoint.…

Have you ever needed to create an effect in PowerPoint that lets you pan and/or zoom? Well, morph transitions allow you to do just that! This feature was introduced in PowerPoint 2019.…

Do you have a Word document with a lot of pictures that’s too large to email? There’s an easy way to fix that by compressing the pictures.…

In this video, we’ll see how to create and work with columns in a Microsoft Word document. In a hands-on demo, I’ll show you how to: 00:00 – Video intro 00:22 – Format an entire document into columns 01:09 – Insert columns into the middle of a document 02:00 – Work with images and columns 02:50 – Insert a table into the middle of a document to use columns…

In a previous video (https://youtu.be/yOZRSjHje3c), we saw how morph transitions can make your presentations anything but boring. In this video, we’re going on more morphing adventures!…

Chances are that you occasionally need to translate something into another language—whether for work or something personal. Are you still going to Google or another website to do that?…

Imagine you’re working with a long Microsoft Word document—one that’s organized into many different sections and is dozens of pages long (or longer!). Organizing and navigating the document can be difficult.…

Microsoft Word is full of hacks and accelerators to make you more productive. In a hands-on demo, I’ll show you how to: 00:00 – Video intro 00:16 – Hack #1 – Easily insert common phrases or paragraphs using AutoText 01:47 – Hack #2- View the magic in your document with the paragraph marker and hidden formatting marks 05:02 – Hack #3 – Quickly apply formatting to multiple things by using double-click with the Format Painter 06:09 – Hack #4 – Easily save your favorite formatting so you can reuse it in the future 07:31 – Hack #5 – Get to your Page Layout settings with just a double-click…

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for entering and managing data. But even if you work with it all the time, you might now know about these shortcuts to make your work faster and more productive.…

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of your day in PowerPoint, creating your own slides or editing slides for others. So why not be as productive and efficient as possible?…

A lot of PowerPoint decks will include an agenda slide. As one of your first slides, this will set the tone for the meeting or presentation, so it really needs to “hook” your audience with some visual appeal.…