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Google Tasks cheat sheet: How to get started
Use Google Workspace’s built-in task manager to build to-do lists and get reminders about upcoming tasks.
Microsoft touts Windows 365 Frontline: 1 subscription for up to 3 workers
Windows 365 Frontline is aimed at hybrid workforces that perform shift and frontline work, and whose employees may need to switch out computers as they come and go without losing customized settings and data.
Excel for Microsoft 365 cheat sheet
Learn to use the best new features in Excel for Microsoft 365/Office 365 in Windows.
Microsoft customers locked out of Azure and M365 services due to geolocation error
Microsoft was forced to apologize on Thursday after implementing a change that saw customers around the globe unable to access its services.
Microsoft Copilot could fix a long-running Office problem
The arrival of AI in Microsoft apps, especially Office, could kick off a lot of creativity and — if we’re lucky — make Office a more coherent suite of tools.
How to train your chatbot through prompt engineering
While most large language models like OpenAI's GPT-4 are pre-filled with massive amounts of information, 'prompt engineering' allows generative AI to be tailored for specific industry or even organizational use.
Google Docs power tips: How to add charts, citations, and more
In Google Docs, you can easily enhance your documents with professional elements like a table of contents, a watermark, charts, and citations. We show you how.
Generative AI comes to Office: What it means (and who’s at risk)
Microsoft's AI efforts took a big step forward this week with the unveiling of Microsoft 365 Copilot. It promises to be a big productivity boost, if users know what they're doing.
Microsoft: 365 Copilot chatbot is the AI-based future of work
Microsoft today demonstrated the many uses of its new 365 Copilot chatbot based on GPT-4, and the company introduced a new generative AI-based feature called Business Chat.
Microsoft Forms cheat sheet: How to get started
Online forms are an excellent way to conduct research, collect feedback, test knowledge, and more. Here’s how to use Microsoft Forms to create surveys, feedback forms, quizzes, and other interactive forms.
Microsoft's tiny Word improvement is a big productivity boost
Microsoft is at last making it much easier to copy and paste plain text with a keyboard shortcut.
Microsoft touts new GPT-powered chatbot for Dynamics 365 CRM, ERP apps
A new AI-based extension to the company's Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP platform can automatically generate answers to customer emails, suggest marketing and sales campaigns, and summarize Teams chat threads and documents.
Google Sheets power tips: How to use pivot tables
Pivot tables let you parse raw spreadsheet data to display specific information in a concise, easy-to-digest format. Here’s how to use them in Google Sheets.
How do you want Microsoft updates — in ‘dribbles’ or all at once?
Change is coming to the way Microsoft updates Windows and various apps. Are you ready?
10 highly useful add-ins for Microsoft Office
You can easily extend the productivity suite’s capabilities on both the web and desktop apps.
Google Sheets power tips: Create an automatically updating spreadsheet
Tired of finding, copying, and pasting data into spreadsheets? With just a few lines of code, you can set up a self-updating spreadsheet in Google Sheets that fetches and stores data for you.
Google Forms cheat sheet: How to get started
You can use Google Forms to create online surveys, quizzes, and feedback pages. Here’s how.
9 handy hidden features in Google Docs on Android
Boost your mobile productivity with these power-packed, time-saving features in the Docs Android app.
Microsoft Visio cheat sheet: How to get started
Visio in Microsoft 365 is an excellent tool for creating custom diagrams to illustrate concepts that are difficult to explain through text. Here’s how to use it.
Patch now to address critical Windows zero-day flaw
January’s Patch Tuesday update fixes 98 flaws, including a critical zero-day vulnerability in Windows. Be prepared for a significant testing and engineering effort.