Top of the Tips: Our Top 5 DigiTips from 2024/25 🏆

Before we move into the new academic year and into a new batch of DigiTips – weekly blogpost to highlight a useful tip that you can use to make your daily digital life easier – let’s look back on our most popular DigiTips from 2024/25! 

  1. DigiTip 34: Make MS Teams chats easier to read with bullet points 💬 

Have you ever been in an MS Teams meeting where you’ve needed to send a quick list that’s easy for others to read? There are actually two quick ways to create bullet points or numbered lists in any MS Teams chat. 

  1. DigiTip 36: Use Outlook reactions to respond to an email 👍🎉 

There may be times when someone has sent you an email, and you’d like to acknowledge its receipt without sending another reply. A great feature to use in this case is the reactions feature in Outlook, which works similarly to those in MS Teams or on various social media platforms. 

  1. DigiTip 42: Refine your search results with filters in MS Teams 🔎 

Teams has a useful search function, but it can sometimes produce too many results. To save you unnecessary time searching, you can utilise filters. 

These filters allow you to search using specific criteria such as date, sender, and file type, helping you to quickly pinpoint the information you need! 

  1. DigiTip 45: Shift+F3 is on the case! A capitalisation shortcut ⌨ 

If you have ever begun writing a sentence and realised, you were in the wrong case – this DigiTip is for you! Did you know that you can change the case of your word in Office 365 by selecting the text and then using Shift + F3? 

  1. DigiTip 49: Interesting Graphs in MS Excel 📈 

Do you want to add interesting ways of presenting your data in MS Excel? DigiTip 49 can help with that by introducing Sparklines. Sparklines are small graphs that only take up one cell in an excel sheet and are an effective way of presenting data without having a graph that takes up a whole sheet. 

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DigiTip 65: Speak it aloud with Microsoft Word Dictate 🗣️

Swap out typing for talking with DigiTip 65 and Microsoft Word’s Dictate tool. On Microsoft Word there is the option to dictate by either clicking the microphone button or using the shortcut Alt and +. This means that you can talk, and Microsoft Word will type for you! 

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DigiTip 64: Change Direction with Excel Text Orientation 💻

Take your spreadsheets to the next level with DigiTip 64. Did you know that you can change the direction of text on your spreadsheets. This can help if your spreadsheets are becoming text heavy, especially headings. View the short video below to learn how! 

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DigiTip 63: Tag you’re it! OneNotes Tagging Feature ✅

With DigiTip 63, learn how to insert tags into your pages on OneNote. Tags are small emojis such as checkboxes to help you keep track of what’s important in your OneNote pages.  

Watch the short video below to learn more.  

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DigiTip 62: Perfect Presenting with PowerPoint Presenter Coach ⏱️

Do you want to perfect your presenting skills before your next big presentation? With DigiTip 62 and PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach you can get feedback while you practice! Simply follow these steps: 

  1. In your PowerPoint go to ‘Slide Show’ then ‘Rehearse with Coach’. 
  1. Run through your presentation as usual  
  1. Once finished – receive your personalised feedback summary of statistics on what you did well and how you can improve! 

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DigiTips are returning next week! 📢

Since September 2023, the Digital Skills Team have been publishing weekly tips and tricks to help improve your Digital Skills one DigiTip at a time. So far, we’ve published 60 DigiTips from Microsoft shortcuts to digital wellbeing app suggestions!

We’ll be returning next week on Tuesday 29 April with a further 5 DigiTips, if you want to go back and look at previous DigiTips you can read them all from this webpage.

How can I follow the DigiTips?

If you want to keep up weekly with our DigiTips, there are a couple of different ways you can follow our DigiTips.

  1. You can bookmark this webpage and a new DigiTip will appear here at 10am each Tuesday during term time (Read DigiTip 1 if you’re unsure how to bookmark a webpage).
  2. If you want to receive an email notification each time, we post a new DigiTip, you can subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog.
  3. We also publish each DigiTip on Facebook and Instagram pages which you can access from the icons below. From there, you can follow our hashtags #TipiauDigiPA #AUDigiTips

DigiTip 60: Power up your PowerPoint! ⚡

Have you ever struggled with presenting your PowerPoint online through sharing your screen? Did you know that you can present directly from PowerPoint to Teams? With DigiTip 60 – now you do! 

When you’re in your meeting and ready to share your slides – simply select the “present in Teams” button in your PowerPoint and present! 

View the short video below to see how easy it is: 

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DigiTip 59: Remember to Stay hydrated with the My Water 💧

Forgetting to stay hydrated while at Uni or work? This DigiTip is for you. Staying hydrated is a major part of wellbeing as it influences how much energy you have and helps you to stay focussed. 

My Water has a free version which will send you notifications at set intervals reminding you to drink to reach your goal for the day. Alongside this you are also given statistics based on how you are doing for the week with your water intake. There’s also an Achievements page that shows what milestones you’ve hit and how to achieve more. When reporting what you have drank on the free version you are given the option of selecting water, coffee or tea which will return different amounts to your water progress based on the water balance of the drink. 

Below are some screenshots from the app that show some of these features. 

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DigiTip 58: Take Ctrl of your Headings in Word ⌨️

Sometimes, it can be a pain swapping from different headings in Word but with DigiTip 58 it doesn’t have to be a pain anymore!  

Use the simple shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + S to easily swap between all the different heading styles available in Word.

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