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!
Wanted to count how many times a name appears in a column alongside other conditions in Excel? With DigiTip 57 we can show you the formula to get this done.
First you will need data similar to that shown in the screenshot where you have multiple columns of information where you want to count how much of a certain criteria exists such as names or dates for example.
To do this we are going to need to use the COUNTIFS function in the formula tab, this is shown in the screenshot below.
This takes the criteria range which in the example is the column of names and then the criteria itself which in the example would be the name Chris at E2. Also include in the example is another criteria range of the column of gifts and the criteria of Chocolate. This will then go through all the information and count only when these two criteria are met.
This could be useful on a larger scale for tracking any number of things that are happening on a spreadsheet.
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Do you want to make your PowerPoints more Dynamic? DigiTip 53 Will help you to do that by using a transition in PowerPoint called Morph which can give more flow to a PowerPoint by giving smooth transitions to shapes and text changing in the slides.
First Open up PowerPoint
Then create two slides, one with normal text and in the following slide split up the letters of the word across the slide. I did this by using multiple text boxes.
On the second slide go to the transitions tab and choose morph
Then still on the transitions tab go to effect options and choose characters
From there press F5 or go to the slide show tab and click on from beginning where you should now by pressing space see the morph transition take place.
Have you ever wanted to cross something out in Excel? Sometimes you don’t want to delete or hide the cells. DigiTip 52 has a quick shortcut to help you out!
Simply select the relevant cell(s) and use the shortcut: Ctrl + 5
Do you want a faster and more efficient way to navigate MS Teams, for example to let your colleagues know your status on Teams or send a message? DigiTip 51 can show you quick commands to do just this. For this DigiTip we will be using the forward slash commands in the search bar on Teams.
First open MS Teams.
Next, we will need to access the search bar at the top, this can either be done by pressing ctrl + e or by just clicking in the search area at the top.
Then if you press / you will receive all commands available to you to use.
After you have chosen the command you want to use you just have to press enter.
An example of one of these would be /busy which is a faster way of setting your status to busy.
Another example, /chat will give you a follow up option of selecting who you want to send the message to and what you want the message to be, all in the search bar.
Would you like to advance your note taking but you’re stuck on a format? With DigiTip 50 and page templates in OneNote you can do just that!
Microsoft OneNote has the option to insert page templates to help you format your notes. There are templates from simple lecture notes to project overview to prioritised to do lists. Watch the video below to find out more!
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. This could be useful for presenting data that is important but not vital to a presentation.
First you need an appropriate amount of data as shown.
Then select the Cells which you want to use to present the data and go to insert in the tabs and choose the type of graph you want from sparklines.
Select the data range you want to use, in the example that would be B2:F4.
And there you go; you should have a graph that presents the data all in a single cell.
