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Introduction to Microsoft Loop: Notion on Steroids

Introduction to Microsoft Loop: Notion on Steroids

Like all productivity and office giants out there, Microsoft is rolling out exciting features to the Microsoft suite. Many of these updates are caused by the drastic change in the workplace, with communication and collaboration topping the list. One of the updates Microsoft Office is looking to release is Microsoft Loop, which I’ll be introducing to you in this article. What is Microsoft Loop? The truth is, Microsoft Loop isn’t really a new product or feature. It’s more of a rebranding of Microsoft Fluid, which is a real-time collaboration framework. Microsoft Loop is a feature or an application in Microsoft […]

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Microsoft 365 Groups: Public vs Private [Differences]

Microsoft 365 Groups: Public vs Private (Differences)

If you’re new to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, then you may be wondering about the difference between public and private groups. You may have seen a variant of that question on various websites and forums. In this article, I will explain the difference between public and private Microsoft 365 groups and how to change the policy from one to the other. Let’s get started. What are Microsoft 365 groups? A Microsoft 365 group is a part of the Groups service of Office 365. It can be described as an email-enabled security group with additional capabilities such as: In essence, they

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How to Edit Word Documents Online for Free in 2021

How to Edit Word Documents Online for Free in 2025

The cool thing about Microsoft Word is that it became so popular that other platforms have started adopting it. As you may know, the DOC format is proprietary to Microsoft and is native to the Word application. Unfortunately, there are certain scenarios when you have to edit a Word document and you don’t have the application installed (like in the case of installing a fresh copy of your operating system). The good news is that there are plenty of ways to edit Word documents online for free. Furthermore, they’re all easy to use, albeit some of them may have restrictions

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Microsoft Office 365 vs GoDaddy Office 365 [Breakdown]

Microsoft Office 365 vs GoDaddy Office 365 (Breakdown)

GoDaddy and Microsoft formed a partnership in 2014. That led to the former creating its own offering of Microsoft 365 suite (they changed the name from Office 365 to reflect Microsoft’s recent change). Unfortunately, this offer, though significantly cheaper during the promotion period, has led to some problems for some of its users. In this article, you will learn the difference between GoDaddy Office 365 and of Microsoft Office 365. We will also discuss why plenty of people think of GoDaddy’s offer as a “trap”. Let’s get started. What is the GoDaddy Office 365 all about? Although GoDaddy has a

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How to Create a Drop-Down List in Excel in 3 Easy Steps

How to Create a Drop-Down List in Excel in 3 Easy Steps

If you’re new to Excel, you may find it hard to implement a drop-down list in Excel simply because there’s no one-click button for that. In fact, some long-time users may still forget how to do it as the button involved isn’t that obvious. In this article, I will show you how to easily create a drop-down list in three easy steps. Step 1: Select a Cell The first step is simple — select the cell that you want to turn into a drop-down list. For example, let’s say we have this spreadsheet below and we want to turn cell

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How to Attach an Email in Outlook to Another Email

How to Attach an Email in Outlook to Another Email

One of the basic problems that Outlook users face is how to attach an email in Outlook to another email. Everybody knows how to forward an email, but it seems that some are confused about how to attach another email to their message. Fortunately, doing that in Outlook is as simple as attaching an image. In fact, you can attach another email from another sender in an email in less than three seconds, in two different ways. Here is the first one: How to attach an email to another email? As you may know, there is a one-click solution to

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How to Disable OneDrive on Your Windows Computer (Updated)

How to Disable OneDrive on Your Windows Computer (Updated)

Not happy with how OneDrive keeps popping out? In this guide, I will show you how you can easily disable OneDrive from your Windows computer. Let’s get started. Unlink OneDrive from Microsoft Account Unlinking OneDrive is the easiest way to stop OneDrive without doing any drastic actions. 🙂 This action pauses syncing and keeps your files untouched so you can keep OneDrive installed if you want to use it later. Right-click on the OneDrive icon from your taskbar and click the gear icon then settings: A window will appear that contains the different settings available for OneDrive. Go to the

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How to Enable External Forwarding in Microsoft 365

How to Enable External Forwarding in Microsoft 365 (2025)

Getting problems related to external forwarding? In this guide, I will walk you through enabling external forwarding in Microsoft 365, and my predicament that led to this. Let’s get started. What is external forwarding in Microsoft 365? If you’ve been using email platforms before, then you must already be familiar with external forwarding. Basically, it’s a feature that allows emails from a Microsoft 365 mailbox to be automatically sent to an external email address. It works like this: It’s useful for smooth communication across different platforms or ensuring important messages reach external contacts. Unfortunately, as you would later see, it’s

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Disable “More information required” MFA Prompt for Guests

If you’ve seen this image before then you may feel my pain. All employees and guests in my client’s Microsoft 365 tenant were getting this prompt. The client wanted to leave this on for employees but keep it disabled for guests. If this is something you want to do too, let me show you how to do it. Create A Dynamic Distribution Group The first step is to create a dynamic distribution list called “All Users Except Guests” (or something similar). To start, log in to Azure as a Global Admin. Then, search for “Azure Active Directory” and click on

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Office 365 Profile Picture Not Displayed Inside SharePoint Online Webparts

From time to time you may notice that SharePoint Online does not display updated user photos in webparts. You may see or experience something like this: There is a simple solution to this. Navigate to this URL in your SharePoint tenant: This list stores three photos for each user in your Office 365 tenant. The photos have the following naming convention and dimension requirements: If my username was ryanclark, my tenant name was mrsp1, my TLD (top-level domain) was .com (could be .net, .org, .co, etc.), then we’d have the following: Save (and possibly overwrite) the three images in the

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