Posts tagged "Tips"

Office Tips & Tricks: Remix! and formatting with Sway

If you’ve used Sway, Microsoft’s visual storytelling/presentation program you’ll know that its auto-formatting function can be a great time saver.

Office Tips & Tricks: OneNote’s Class Notebook

Recently I’ve been chatting with academic colleagues about using OneNote’s Class Notebook available from the Office 365 homepage, for tutorial or personal tutor scenarios.

Office Tips & Tricks: Assign a task in Planner

Have you had a go with Microsoft’s aptly named Planner program (accessed via your Office 365 homepage)? Planner lets you create a board, add cards for tasks to do and share the plan with colleagues.

Office Tips & Tricks: Analyse data from your Microsoft Form

Are you a Microsoft Forms convert yet? If not, why not have a go at creating and using a Microsoft Form either for a quiz or survey. Find out how to get started by reading our blog post from 15 March.

Office Tips & Tricks: 5 ways to use Yammer

Interested in using Yammer but not sure where to start?
Here are five ideas to get you started using Yammer whether it’s for learning, teaching or assessment, within a group or as an individual user:

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Office Tips & Tricks: Adding a video to a Sway

If you’ve already explored Microsoft Sway, you’ll know that this digital storytelling package loves visuals. You can add images, but did you know it’s also easy to add video too?
 
From the Cards pane, just select a Video card.

Office Tips & Tricks: Split Excel data into 2 columns

Working with an Excel column of full names, but wishing you’d set this up as two separate columns? Luckily there’s an Excel trick to help you do this.

Office Tips & Tricks: Get organised with Planner

What is Planner?
Planner allows you to create an electronic Board (1) where you can add Buckets (2) and pin electronic cards (3) to your lists.

Office Tips & Tricks: Convert handwritten equations to text in Excel 2016

If you’ve upgraded to Office 2016 and are lucky enough to have a touchscreen laptop or tablet you can now handwrite equations which are then converted to typed text.

Office Tips & Tricks: Create a Microsoft Form

Microsoft Forms is a program within Office 365 (Education) that enables you to create custom quizzes, surveys and questionnaires. You can then invite others to respond (using any browser and using mobile devices).