Yearly Archives: 2021

Chrome now instantly captions audio and video on the web

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PowerPoint live subtitles – it can even translate!

PowerPoint in Microsoft 365 has live subtitles built in. Use when you are sharing a presentation so everyone can enjoy it. Brilliant for when your audience are struggling to hear, have no headphones or have noisy neighbours! Choose where they

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Speedily turn your phone into a scanner using Microsoft Lens

Have you joined the people who have discovered Microsoft Lens? Now it’s improved! Snap the whiteboard, page of a book or magazine, text on a screen, document or even handwritten notes with your phone camera, choose what file type you

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New PowerPoint Presenting options in MS Teams

Microsoft have enhanced the way PowerPoint presentations can be run in MS Teams. For the full information visit their page Share PowerPoint slides in a Teams meeting. By default, you’ll see the presenter view: your presentation notes to the right

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Why you should make time every week for LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn has insights that nobody else has; after all, people around the world use LinkedIn to promote their skills and land their next job every day. Because of the data they have, LinkedIn can see trends in industries and they

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Live Webinars available from IT Services

IT Services run a range of short, targeted webinars to help with common tasks and provide timesaving tips. Subjects include How to Create a Table of Contents in Word, Excel Beginners, Managing Data Lists and Introduction to Functions, Microsoft Teams

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Must knows for people using PowerPoint in an interview or assessment?

Take the pressure out of presenting with these Microsoft PowerPoint tips Need to return to a slide? Don’t panic jump directly to a slide by typing the slide number and press return Need to see all your slides at once?

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Microsoft Teams navigation just got better

The navigation arrows in the top left of the Teams window have now been enhanced to show your page history when you hover over the arrows. Save time and jump back to recent pages.

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How to share code files or large files

Often files are too large for an email attachment or if they are code an email service will reject them due to security risks. If you need to share large files or code files IT Services recommend that you use

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Take a break and let the Outlook app do the talking

Try these tips to reduce your eyestrain and let the Microsoft Outlook App play your emails for you and then tell it to flag it, delete or save. Just one of the great tips from the Microsoft UK Accessibility Champions

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