Category: Office 365
Microsoft Internet Explorer, originally released in 1994, getting to its last version, number 11, in 2013, is finally being put to pasture.


If the images in emails you are receiving are not displaying correctly, then you may need to add the sender’s email address to your local Outlook clients Safe Senders list.


Microsoft Teams comes with a number of built-in backgrounds for your Teams calls, plus you are able to blur the background. This is a great tool if you want to make a call, and look more professional by hiding a messy room or adding a company logo. This is more important than ever, as many of us working more from home, whilst juggling homeschooling, housework and looking after children and pets!


Official statistics from the UK Government’s Cyber Security Breach Survey 2020, report that almost half of businesses (46%) have been a victim of a cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months.


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Microsoft are adding a feature to Teams that allows you to swap between different accounts whilst still in the application, rather than having to sign out and sign in again.


A new feature is being added to Excel that allows you to link a PDF into Excel as a data source.


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Ah the joys of remote Team meetings with shuffling papers, slamming doors, barking dogs…
A new feature has been added to Teams to help with suppressing unwanted background noises.


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Some new features have been added to Microsoft Word to enhance usability.


You can easily create documents in Word for the web with a polished, professional look—no design skills required! Designer automatically checks for formatting and style issues and creates fixes that you can apply. You can also apply a variety of design themes to make your document instantly consistent from top to bottom.


Microsoft have released an add-in for Excel that allows you to visualise your data within a Visio diagram.

