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February 02, 2025

Tips & Tricks for navigating Business Central

It is true that Business Central’s extensive features might seem overwhelming at first; luckily, the system is equipped with a user-friendly interface that is optimized and adjustable to your unique job role needs. Whether you’re just beginning to familiarize yourself with Microsoft’s Business Central or you’re a long-time user in search of a refresher, we are here to provide you with some assistance to help you effectively navigate the system. Let’s explore some helpful tips and tricks that ...

Create quality hybrid workplaces with Microsoft 365 and Teams

March 23, 2022

Create quality hybrid workplaces with Microsoft 365 and Teams

Companies and employees are discovering that remote work is not just possible—it may even be preferable. A whopping 52% of people say they are considering shifting to hybrid or remote work this year, and remote and hybrid jobs are the most popular among applicants—they garner 2.6 times more views and 3 times more applications than on-site positions.Clearly, hybrid work is here to stay. Anticipating this change early on, many updates to Microsoft 365, including in Teams, have been geared towar...

How to make Microsoft Teams open Office files in app by default

October 06, 2021

How to make Microsoft Teams open Office files in app by default

Microsoft Teams provides businesses with an excellent solution for managing file storage and collaboration. It has its own editor for Word and other Microsoft 365 app files that can be useful for some quick, small changes. However, for larger edits and authoring, it is usually much easier to open the file in the corresponding desktop application such as Word. The functionality is usually better and the formatting can be a bit difficult when editing in Teams itself. New in the preview release ...

How to integrate Business Central and an Outlook account

September 22, 2021

How to integrate Business Central and an Outlook account

Integrating an email account to Business Central using an Outlook add-in can help users better keep track of which documents are sent to which contacts. Here’s how you can integrate Business Central with Outlook, plus a few of the scenarios where you’d want to use this helpful feature.

Six ways to improve business process efficiency with Power Automate

September 02, 2021

Six ways to improve business process efficiency with Power Automate

How many workdays have been filled completing manual, repetitive, time-consuming business processes, like sending reminders, scheduling meetings, or completing the steps of an approval? These tasks are necessary, but they often require time and energy that employees could otherwise spend on driving the business forward. With advancements in technology and the power of automation, these processes can be done—often from start to finish—automatically, freeing up time in your day for all the othe...

How to keep Microsoft Word documents white in dark mode

May 07, 2021

How to keep Microsoft Word documents white in dark mode

Many users prefer to use “Dark Mode” in their Office applications as it reduces the amount of bright white light on screen that can get quite uncomfortable after a while. Luckily, Microsoft Office has themes that can be used to change the color appearance of Office applications like Word and Outlook to be, for example, black. In the past, the black Office theme has kept Word documents white while turning most of the user interface to the darker color. However, it seems that Word has recently ...

Carve out break time with time management settings in Outlook

April 27, 2021

Carve out break time with time management settings in Outlook

Time is the most valuable resource for any employee. For employees who have been working from home for the past year, managing time to ensure work gets done and personal life doesn’t take a hit can be sometimes difficult. The goal of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook and Microsoft Teams is to help manage time and ensure communication is efficient. Specifically in Outlook, the calendar can be used to effectively manage meetings and work life balance in a user-friendly way. Here are some new feat...

Enrich communication with Microsoft 365 integration in Microsoft Teams

March 30, 2021

Enrich communication with Microsoft 365 integration in Microsoft Teams

With many organizations still operating in a work from home environment, digital communication is integral to maintaining on the same page. In a recent update to Microsoft 365, there are new ways for team members to interact and improve that sense of comradery that is often missed is a digital setting. Let’s walk through three ways Microsoft 365 apps are now integrated into Microsoft Teams to help employees stay connected.

Increase communication efforts with new Teams integration to Dynamics 365

March 19, 2021

Increase communication efforts with new Teams integration to Dynamics 365

Microsoft Teams stands tall not only as an effective method for businesses to facilitate internal communications, but also as a way for them to collaborate on their work. Teams allows for seamless collaboration in a variety of applications, especially with other Microsoft applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and SharePoint. Teams has an integration to work with Dynamics 365 applications such as Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Marketing. This integration is receiving some new featu...

Organize your Teams by creating well-structured SharePoint Team sites in Microsoft Teams

February 02, 2021

Organize your Teams by creating well-structured SharePoint Team sites in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a great tool for facilitating internal communications and ensuring every member of the organization stays up to date. It keeps teams focused and advancing towards the same goals. SharePoint is a file management system that gives secure file storage to the entire organization. SharePoint can be customized and structured to best fit the needs of the business. These are both great products that help facilitate effective collaboration within an organization.

UPDATE: Set OneDrive to open Office 365 files in their desktop app by default

November 25, 2020

UPDATE: Set OneDrive to open Office 365 files in their desktop app by default

This is an update to a previous blog detailing the default opening behavior of Office 365 app files in OneDrive. The process has largely changed since the original blog post. The purpose of this blog is to show how to set OneDrive up to automatically open Office 365 files in the desktop app, rather than the online app.

Improve team organization and productivity with Microsoft Lists and Microsoft Teams

October 14, 2020

Improve team organization and productivity with Microsoft Lists and Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Lists, a recently released Microsoft 365 productivity application, has proven to be a catalyst to help companies organize and track tasks. On its own, Microsoft Lists allows users to create and share lists with members of their organization to view, edit, and complete within the app - even on mobile. However, where it really shines is in its integration with Microsoft Teams.

Customizing form themes in Microsoft Forms

July 02, 2020

Customizing form themes in Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms provides multiples ways to customize forms in a way that make them your own or adhere to brand standards. Updating a form theme or background with custom images or colors will help legitimize the form for your audience and make it look more appealing.

How retailers can use Microsoft Bookings to follow social distancing guidelines

May 06, 2020

How retailers can use Microsoft Bookings to follow social distancing guidelines

Smaller retailers like hair salons, auto repair shops, boutiques, and other small to midsize retailers who don’t have dedicated teams to implement advanced COVID-19 response operations can utilize appointment booking software like Microsoft Bookings to safely open their business to their customers.

Working Remotely During COVID-19

April 09, 2020

Working Remotely During COVID-19

With the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and its subsequent spread around the world, many companies and employees are taking the responsible step to have employees work from home to combat further spread of the virus, a concept known as social distancing. Companies of all sizes may struggle to adequately prepare staff to work remotely full-time. They may not have the equipment or the tools to access work resources remotely.

Working remotely during COVID-19

March 26, 2020

Working remotely during COVID-19

With the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and its subsequent spread around the world, many companies and employees are taking the responsible step to have employees work from home to combat further spread of the virus, a concept known as social distancing. Companies of all sizes may struggle to adequately prepare staff to work remotely full-time. They may not have the equipment or the tools to access work resources remotely.

How often do Office 365 applications get updates?

October 20, 2019

How often do Office 365 applications get updates?

Does it seem like your Microsoft Office apps are updating all the time, or are updates only available every few months? Read this blog to learn about Office update channels, how they differ, and why you may want to choose each specific one.

How to make Office files open in the desktop app by default

August 06, 2019

How to make Office files open in the desktop app by default

Take control of your Office files and documents by establishing a permanent opening location. Whether you prefer the desktop or web, the choice is now yours. Learn how its done and how to make the option available to your users.

What can you do with Microsoft Search in Office 365?

May 16, 2019

What can you do with Microsoft Search in Office 365?

Microsoft Search is a new, unified search experience that works across Windows 10, Office 365 apps, and the Bing search engine. Announced in September 2018, it reached General Availability in May 2019 for all users of Office and Microsoft 365.

How to disable autosave in Office 365 programs

October 10, 2018

How to disable autosave in Office 365 programs

In a recent update to Office 365, Microsoft has included an autosave feature that is turned on by default. While this feature can be useful, there may be a time when you want to make changes to a file without saving yet. Here’s how to turn it off.

OneDrive is opening my documents in the online version of Office. How can I make them open in my desktop applications?

August 20, 2018

OneDrive is opening my documents in the online version of Office. How can I make them open in my desktop applications?

OneDrive from Microsoft allows both business and personal users to save their files in the cloud and access them anytime, from anywhere. In this blog we will discuss the issue of OneDrive only opening documents in the online version of their app. While this action may seem like an error to users, it’s actually the default behavior of OneDrive to open files in the online version. The good news is that changing this behavior is rather easy and takes only a few quick clicks.

SharePoint Online is opening my documents in the online version of Office. How can I make them open in my desktop applications?

January 11, 2017

SharePoint Online is opening my documents in the online version of Office. How can I make them open in my desktop applications?

If you’ve recently implemented SharePoint Online as part of Office 365, you may be feeling a bit baffled as to why every time you try to open a document from SharePoint, it opens in Word or Excel Online, rather than directly on your desktop. This is actually the default behavior for SharePoint documents.

December 15, 2015

Customize your app launcher in Office 365

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a cool new feature for Office 365 Business that gives you the power to move and re size your apps within the Office 365 app launcher. This is an exciting feature for people that use the app launcher to switch between Office 365 apps and for those who don’t use the app launcher, this will be a fun way to get into a habit of using it more.