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This is where you’ll find all our blog posts filled with free tips and useful guidance to get the most from your Microsoft 365 apps plus common-sense ideas, useful links, business book reviews and more.

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  • 5 May 2023 4:26 PM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    Consider you are in a workshop and the presenter has invited you to take a photos of any slides he/she is presenting. You have taken a photo and now you want to make some notes on this image.

    Let's show you how to put the image into OneNote and then send the image to the background so you can make notes anywhere on the image.  

  • 5 May 2023 4:04 PM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    You have an email that requires time to get done, and you never seem to find the time. 

    As Andy Stanley says "Let me take some pressure off.  Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule ...  

  • 20 Apr 2023 4:53 PM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    Have you needed to jump to another slide in the presentation, and that slide is not the next slide in your deck?

    Let's show you how to use an ACTION button to jump forward and back in the presentation.  


  • 17 Apr 2023 1:15 PM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    Need to show a quick visualisation of a trend in your data - Excel Sparklines is your tool for this.  

  • 17 Apr 2023 12:25 PM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    Watch Michelle share: How to create a Thank You card in MS-Word

    Saying "thank you" for gifts and other nice gestures is important and while a note on social media is nice, a survey conducted by ATEM indicated 72% of respondents felt paper thank you notes are more meaningful than electronic ones. 

  • 13 Feb 2023 10:05 AM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    If you have Windows 10, you may find OneNote Windows 10 was displayed in the menu and automatically launched when you opened an existing OneNote book.  

    While there are lovers of OneNote Windows 10, there is some functionality I love with OneNote 2016.  

    So if you want to cross-grade to OneNote 2016 here is a link to a Microsoft page that explains how to do this.

    The thing they do not suggest, and I would recommend, is:

    1. unpin OneNote from your task bar and start menu
    2. remove the icon from your desktop
    3. now follow these steps  - Change the default version of OneNote on your computer - Microsoft Support

    4. when finished the steps,  From Start Menu (scroll down to find "OneNote" (and not OneNote for Windows)) and launch it.  Then re-pin to task bar, start menu and add to the desktop.
  • 7 Feb 2023 3:00 PM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    So here is what they dug out of me!  Gold Digger: Women's Business

    After meeting Ang, I was invited onto the Gold Diggers podcast to talk about my "Gold".  Now I can say this was a frightening experience as I had no idea what questions Ang or Bec where going to ask.


  • 31 Jan 2023 2:37 PM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    Have you been sharing your screen in virtual meeting when an email notification pops up on your screen that is just not appropriate for your audience to see!

    PS: This is also a great productivity tip to stop you being distracted just because you see an email come in!!  

  • 3 Jan 2023 12:20 PM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    Have you used Outlook on the web and wondered what short cuts you have available to you?  Well here is a selection of them:

    Working from Online Outlook Email

    • [N]  Creating a new Message (yes it is hard to believe just N)
    • [Shift + Enter]  Opening the message you have your cursor on
    • [Ctrl + R]  Reply to send of the message
    • [Ctrl + Shift + R]  Reply to all on the message
    • [Ctrl + Shift + F]  Forward a message
    • [Alt + Q]  Use search
    • [Ctrl +Shift +2]  Go to the calendar section

    Working from your Online Calendar

    • [N] Create a new calendar item
    • [Shift +Alt +1]  switch to todays view
    • [Shift +Alt +2]  switch to work week view
    • [Shift +Alt +3]  switch to full week view
    • [Ctrl +Shift +1]  Go to the email section


  • 19 Oct 2022 4:46 PM | Michelle Hamer (Administrator)

    Need to get to a cell quickly, try pressing [Ctrl + G]  Then type in the cell address and press [Enter]

    Now if you want to find those blank cells, press [Ctrl + G] then click on [Special] and tick {Blanks} then [OK]

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