Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 April 2023
When you select part of a formula in Excel, a values preview tooltip now appears showing you what the results would be for this if you calculated it (removing the need for you to press the F9 key).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 April 2023
You can customise the Edge sidebar to let you launch programs like WhatsApp or RightMove easily on your laptop, and also use it to drag and drop files or text between your computer and your phone.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 April 2023
iPhone users will soon be able to make calls and answer messages on their laptops, with the release of Phone Link for iPhones.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 March 2023
See if you can identify the 15 films depicted - your chances of winning our prize will be proportional to the number you can name!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 March 2023
This month's update is impressive - including visual subtitles, a button action to clear and apply slicers and a new PowerPoint story-telling feature - but it's the on-object interaction in preview which will truly change your life.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 29 March 2023
It's not often that a single Power BI update has such a big impact, but on-object interaction (waiting in preview) is a huge change
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 29 March 2023
Don't want people to see your face on screen, but still want to prove you're at a Teams meeting? You will soon (sadly) be able to get an avatar to represent you, even to the extent of reproducing your movements.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 29 March 2023
Microsoft Loop allows you to create "workspaces" for project and share "components" across all online Microsoft applications. Might it be also intended as a replacemet for the ageing SharePoint?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 March 2023
Microsoft have made a slew of announcements about how they will be using ChatGPT to incorporate artificial intelligence into their software, including Copilot within Microsoft 365, AI search within Bing and intelligent Power Platform virtual agents (chatbots).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 March 2023
Artificial Intelligence has always disappointed me - the future of humanity has always seemed secure against the machines - until now …
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 07 March 2023
We have removed all but a few core tests from our skills assessment site - this blog explains the implications if you're a user of the site.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 February 2023
You may have come across XKCD line-drawing cartoons in your website travels, but did you know that there's also a site dedicated to explaining the science behind them?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 February 2023
Not sure when you should be using a semi-colon or apostrophe? Consult this entertaining cartoon style guide from The Oatmeal!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 February 2023
There are quite a few changes in this month's update, but none of them will change your life that much!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 February 2023
Learn how to get individual Excel cells to contain sparklines to show trends, how to display column charts or win/loss charts instead, how to play about with grouped charts, how to change sparkline formatting and how to customise sparkline axes.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 February 2023
If you turn on this experimental feature in Edge you can show two webpages side by side (you can even choose what proportion of the screen each side occupies).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 February 2023
We're delighted to welcome Simone Tyler-Gould as our new part-time marketing manager!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 February 2023
You've always been able to add images within worksheets, but now for the first time you can add them within cells - which is strangely satisfying!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 February 2023
Microsoft have sneaked in a new short-cut key to invoke the Power Query Editor, but in the course of researching this we also unearthed 4 other key combinations which we suspect even diehard Excel users may not know about.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 February 2023
Although we currently just train in T-SQL for SQL Server, there are many other dialects of this database language: such as MySql and PL/SQL, for example. Which ones would you like Wise Owl to run courses in?