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Not only news and announcements, but a handy collection of hints and tips to help you get the most out of the software you use.

How to send feedback to Microsoft and Google

Here’s something a little different in this week’s Quick Tip – how to send feedback to either Google or Microsoft on their applications, from within the app itself.

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An introduction to Google Keep

This week’s Quick Tip video gives you an overview of Keep, the multi-function note and list management tool within the Google Workspace suite, with a couple of quick pointers on how to use some of the common features.

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Ten Tips for working productively in Excel and Google Sheets

Ten tips for working productively in Excel and Google Sheets

It can be surprisingly easy to save yourself a bit of time and effort in the workplace just by making use of some of the many brilliant tools that are available in spreadsheet apps. Not everyone uses them (yet!) but they can help everybody work more efficiently. Here are our ten tips for working productively in Excel and Google Sheets.

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How to add checklists to tasks in Microsoft Planner

Our Top Tip this week shows you a simple way to structure your projects in Microsoft Planner by adding checklists to your tasks.

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How to open a Google Slides file in presentation view

Today’s Top Tip gives you a quick and easy way to tweak a URL so you can open a Google Slides file in slideshow presentation view.

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Save and Open a PowerPoint file as a Slideshow

This week’s Top Tip is for PowerPoint users who want to be able to launch directly into a slideshow presentation, without first having to open PowerPoint and click around to change from edit to present mode.

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A keyboard shortcut to update all fields at once on Microsoft Word

Today’s top tip shows you how to update all fields at once on Microsoft Word, such as a table of contents, bookmarks or cross-references, by the use of simple keyboard shortcuts.

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Update all linked objects in Google Docs at once

In this week’s quick tip we show you how to update all linked objects in Google Docs at once, such as charts, data tables or slides.

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A quick way to hide slides from your PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation

Have any slides in PowerPoint or Google Slides file that you don’t want to include in your presentation? No need to make a separate copy without them, today’s Quick Tip shows you a very easy way to hide them so that the slide show skips over them.

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Drill down into your pivot table data with a double click

Our Quick Tip today shows you an easy way to drill down into your pivot table data without having to apply filters to get to the information you want to see. This works both on Excel and Google Sheets.

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