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Productivity Tip: Adding a Drop-Down List to Excel

- 3 min read-Christian Buckley
You can create drop-down lists with Excel's Data Validation feature. It's a quick way to set up a fillable spreadsheet, or to ensure uniform entry of repetitive data.

How End Users Can Expose their Own Content Through Viva Learning

- 1 min read-Asif Rehmani
Viva Learning provides the capability for users without administration rights to display the content they are interested in to their Microsoft Teams colleagues. This video shows how an end user can take the content that they have created, as well as content from Viva Learning that they are interested in, and expose it through a tab within a Teams channel.

Components in Power Apps: An Overview

- 11 min read-Luise Freese
Learn strategies to create PCF components and canvas components for Power Apps. Learn the advantages and trade-offs of using components created by third-party companies or open-source libraries.

Productivity Tip: Cleaning Up Conversations in Outlook

- 4 min read-Christian Buckley
Outlook has a quick tool for cleaning up conversations and duplicate emails. Learn where it is and how to use it.

Highlighting Featured Content on Your Viva Learning Portal

- 1 min read-Asif Rehmani
You can highlight any content in Viva Learning so that it is featured on the top of the home page of Viva Learning portal for all employees. This is a great feature to bring attention to any content.

Quick Tricks to Make Your Power BI Model Smaller, More Efficient and Definitely Faster

- 14 min read-Koen Verbeeck
Is your Power BI Desktop model slow or too big? Learn some quick tricks to reduce the size and memory usage of your Power BI model.

Productivity Tip: Automatic Suggestions for Alt Text in Word & PowerPoint

- 3 min read-Christian Buckley
One piece of metadata people often neglect is alt text. Luckily, Microsoft 365's AI makes it easier than ever to make sure all your images have it.

Document Processing in Microsoft 365

- 9 min read-Haniel Croitoru
Globally, every human creates at least 1.7 MB of data every second. At this rate, over 200 zettabytes (200,000,000 gigabytes) of data is expected to be stored in the cloud infrastructure by 2025. One way to provide users with the ability to categorize and tag content is by using document processing software.

5 Recommendations to Secure Identities in the Cloud

- 10 min read-Dwayne Natwick
In this article, you’ll learn about five recommendations that you can secure your identities in the cloud. They all work together and there is not one that is better than the others.

Auditing Your OneDrive for Business Sharing Using Power Platform

- 9 min read-Haniel Croitoru
Learn how to audit your corporate data shared in OneDrive for Business so it doesn’t become someone else’s data due to needless sharing. Use Power Flow and Power Apps to list which files are shared and who they are shared with.

Microsoft Viva, a Virtual Onboarding Buddy

- 3 min read-Lesley Crook
In this article, learn about the major features in the Microsoft Viva Suite for E3 and E5 licenses that HR can use to help the new hire onboarding process.

Practical Pointers for Retention Labels and Policies in Microsoft 365

- 7 min read-Joanne Klein
Benefit from Joanne Klein’s practical pointers when configuring retention label and policies with the Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management features in Microsoft Purview. These will make ongoing administrative support easier, improve the end-user experience, and may also save future re-work.