The latest features of the Office apps can help you! From improving your writing, to making it easier to communicate visually, to schedule meetings with people inside and outside your company, Office has so many new capabilities that will make your workday better.
4. #Teams10X
Are you using Office 365 the same way
you used Office 2007?
• Document Creation and Editing is a Team Sport!
• Sharing links or emailing attachments?
• What’s new in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote EACH
MONTH?
MAKE YOUR (work)LIFE BETTER! Show your coworkers too!
5. #Teams10X
Collaborate, Communicate, Coordinate
Collaborate – Co-Author & Share
Communicate – Express yourself in words, ink, and picture
• Editor in Word and Outlook
• Design Ideas in PowerPoint
• Stock Imagery libraries in Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Drawing With Ink to Shape in OneNote
Coordinate - Schedule meetings
• Timezones
• Meeting polls
7. #Teams10X
• Look in the Adoption Score
• Content Collaboration report
• https://admin.microsoft.com/#/a
doptionscore/contentcollaborati
on
• Measure over 28 days
Are your coworkers sending links or
attachments?
9. #Teams10X
Takeaway #1 – Encourage Co-Authoring
Get the Coauthoring Comic:
• It’s a 2 slide PowerPoint Deck
• Send an email to coauthoring-comic@blumenthalit.com
10. #Teams10X
Collaborate, Communicate, Coordinate
Collaborate – Co-Author & Share
Communicate – Express yourself in words, ink, and picture
• Editor in Word and Outlook
• Design Ideas in PowerPoint
• Stock Imagery libraries in Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Drawing With Ink to Shape in OneNote
Coordinate - Schedule meetings
• Timezones
• Meeting polls
14. #Teams10X
What is Flesch Reading Ease?
90-100 : Very Easy for a 5th grader
(~11/12 years old)
80-89 : Easy
70-79 : Fairly Easy
60-69 : Standard (8th & HS Freshmen
~14-17 year old)
50-59 : Fairly Difficult
30-49 : Difficult
0-29 : Very Confusing (College
degree required)
See THE FLESCH READING EASE
READABILITY FORMULA
(readabilityformulas.com)
Readability Ease = 206.835 –
(1.015 x ASL) – (84.6 x ASW)
ASL = Average Sentence Length
(i.e., the number of words divided
by the number of sentences)
ASW = Average number of
syllables per word (i.e., the
number of syllables divided by the
number of words)
A number 0 to 100.
Higher
is
easier
22. #Teams10X
Adding pictures now gives you more
options
• It used to just be local or online
pictures, powered by Bing
• Now it has a massive online
image library, including:
• Beautiful Royalty Free Stock Images
• Icon library
• Cutout People
• Stickers
• Videos
• Illustrations
• Cartoon People
34. #Teams10X
Collaborate, Communicate, Coordinate
Collaborate – Co-Author & Share
Communicate – Express yourself in words, ink, and picture
• Editor in Word and Outlook
• Design Ideas in PowerPoint
• Stock Imagery libraries in Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Drawing With Ink to Shape in OneNote
Coordinate - Schedule meetings
• Timezones
• Meeting polls
38. #Teams10X
Collaborate, Communicate, Coordinate
Collaborate – Co-Author & Share
Communicate – Express yourself in words, ink, and picture
• Editor in Word and Outlook
• Design Ideas in PowerPoint
• Stock Imagery libraries in Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Drawing With Ink to Shape in OneNote
Coordinate - Schedule meetings
• Timezones
• Meeting polls
39. #Teams10X
Bonus tips for Windows 10 & 11
• Windows + V instead of Control+V
• Windows + ; opens the Emoji Keyboard
• Triple Click selects a paragraph
• More at: 5 Productivity Hacks for September – Michael Blumenthal,
Office 365 MVP https://michaelblumenthal.me
Hyperlinks in PowerPoint are active for the attendees if you use PowerPoint Live sharing in Teams.
Microsoft Adoption Score - Content collaboration - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn
Third new feature
Used at prev company and many people (especially admin assistants) found it very helpful scheduling w/people outside our company.
Best way to explain this is with this short video