Rob Woodgate
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United Kingdom
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How to Hide, Pin, and Filter Chats in Microsoft Teams
It’s easy to lose individual Microsoft Teams chats—also known as Direct Messages—in the long list of conversations. Here’s how to get control of your chats by hiding, pinning, and filtering messages in Teams. → Read More
How to Close Microsoft Teams Completely When You Close the App
When you close Microsoft Teams, it continues to run in the background, taking up resources and sending you notifications. But change a single setting and closing the application will actually stop it. Here’s how to quit Microsoft Teams every time you close the app on Windows and Mac. → Read More
How to Change the Background in Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Planner is a useful work manager, but out of the box, it’s very plain and impersonal. Give your plans a little more life and color by adding a background from Microsoft’s selection of Designer-chosen images. → Read More
What Are Microsoft Teams Meeting Notes, and How Do You Use Them?
Meeting notes are most useful when they’re written during a meeting and easy to find afterward. Microsoft Teams lets you write notes during a meeting and access them from the meeting appointment at any time in the future. → Read More
How to Open Previously Visited Locations in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams can quickly become filled with teams, channels, tabs, chats, and meetings. Remembering where you saw something can be tricky, so there is a dedicated, clickable list of the last 12 places you visited. → Read More
How to Automatically Back up Windows Folders to OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive can back up your computer’s Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders automatically for you. Here’s how to back up your other Windows folders—including Downloads, Music, and Videos—to OneDrive as well. → Read More
How to Pin a File in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams helps you manage your documents by providing a Files tab in every channel. Keep your critical files visible to the team at all times by pinning them to the top of this Files tab. → Read More
How to Change the Spellchecking Language in Outlook Online
Are you sending an email in a second language but not sure if you spelled a word correctly? Microsoft Outlook Online has a quick and easy way to change the spellchecking language to help you out. → Read More
How to Set up Two-Factor Authentication on eBay
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is a great security tool, and we always recommend it. Most apps make it pretty easy to turn on 2FA, and eBay is no exception. Here’s how to enable it and make yourself safer. → Read More
How to Use Custom Sounds for Slack Notifications
Slack lets you choose from a small variety of notification sounds when you get a direct message or mention. But, by default, you can’t add your own sounds. Fortunately, there’s a way to use custom notification sounds in Slack. → Read More
How to Add a Gmail Account to Outlook Online
Microsoft Outlook Online has a dedicated button for adding a Gmail account to your online email client. Here’s how to pull your Gmail emails into Outlook in just a few clicks. → Read More
How to Sync Files in Microsoft Teams to Your Device
Whether it’s because you need to work offline or you just prefer working from your file system, syncing files from Microsoft Teams to your hard drive is quick and easy. Here’s how to do it. → Read More
How to Add a Status Message in Microsoft Teams
Now that Microsoft Teams seems to have taken over many companies, people expect to know when you’re available or not. Set a custom status message so your colleagues know what you’re up to. → Read More
How to Quickly Turn a File Into a Tab in Microsoft Teams
Collaborating on files with your colleagues is one of Microsoft Teams’ biggest selling points, but finding the right file can be a chore. Here’s how to turn a file into a tab with the click of a single button. → Read More
How to Use Breakout Rooms in a Microsoft Teams Meeting
Breakout rooms—side rooms where meeting attendees can split into small groups—work for in-person meetings and video conferences. Here’s how to set up and use the Microsoft Teams equivalent for virtual meetings. → Read More
How to Use Microsoft Outlook as an RSS Feed Reader
RSS feeds are great for getting alerted to new articles on your favorite sites. But your personal time shouldn’t be taken up with reading work articles. Split your professional and personal subscriptions by adding work feeds to Microsoft Outlook instead. → Read More
How to Send RSS Feeds to a Slack Channel
Slack is a great communication app, but it can do much more than just hold a back-and-forth conversation between you and your colleagues. Here’s how to keep up with your favorite websites by adding RSS feeds to Slack. → Read More
How to Add a Microsoft Teams Chat Link to Your Email Signature
Adding an email address, Twitter, LinkedIn, and company info to your email signature is all well and good, but none of those options allow the recipient to instantly chat with you. Fortunately, you can add a direct Microsoft Teams chat link so people can DM you with one click. → Read More
How to Send RSS Feeds to a Microsoft Teams Channel
Microsoft Teams aims to be a one-stop-shop for your work, and that includes consuming information from the web. Here’s how to keep up with your favorite websites by adding RSS feeds to Microsoft Teams. → Read More
How to Change Your Status in Microsoft Teams
When you’re working remotely, you need to let people know if you’re available or not. Microsoft Teams has a visible status you can change depending on your availability so your colleagues know whether they can bother you or not. → Read More