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  • Discover the useful but hidden extras at Office.com

    MICROSOFT 365

    Peter Deegan

    By Peter Deegan

    Microsoft has done a lot of work on the Office.com home page, especially for business and enterprise users.

    There’s a lot more available on those pages than first appearances indicate. In fact, some of the most useful features are hiding behind faint, almost hidden, icons.

    Office.com is a useful portal to access recent documents saved on OneDrive or SharePoint/Teams across all your Office apps and document types. I’ll first look at the many changes for Business, Enterprise, and Education users, and then I’ll explore some hidden extras for Microsoft 365 Family/Personal.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.21.0, 2022-05-23).

  • Microsoft pulling user-submitted Office templates

    If you’ve ever submitted a template, graphic or video to Office.com, better make sure you have a copy. And if you’ve never looked through the (free) collection, now would be a good time to download whatever strikes your fancy. Microsoft is discontinuing the template collection, and removing all user-submitted templates.

    Details in my InfoWorld Tech Watch blog.