Tom Van 't Veld 15 blogposts

Share information more efficiently by forwarding e-mails to Teams

12/01/2021

Say goodbye to copy-pasting text! Would you like to share information from an e-mail with your Team in a more efficient way? Just forward it to the Teams channel you’d like to share it in.

Tom Van 't Veld

14/11/2013

By default, Prezi doesn’t support sound files. It does, however, support FLV files. So you could add a sound file as you would a video file, and play it on a specific location in your Prezi. First of all, you need to make an FLV file of your music. In this example, we’ll use Windows Movie Maker and a website, but any other option will do. Create a new movie in Windows Movie Maker and add a pic…

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31/10/2013

PowerPoint 2013 offers by default a slide size in widescreen format (16:9). If you want to present on a normal screen beamer, this would mean you lose a lot of space on the screen. In the tab 'Design', you can change the 'Slide Size' and switch between a widescreen and standard slide size (4:3). Be careful, however, as this applies to the entire presentation, not just the selected slide! So it's b…

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16/09/2013

OneNote offers some great possibilities during a meeting. In this blogpost I will explain how you can get the best out of combining Outlook and OneNote during a meeting. Let’s start from the following situation: you have a meeting request in your Outlook Calendar detailing what will happen during the meeting. Someone asks you to take notes and share those notes with the other participants afterw…

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09/08/2013

Outlook 2013 often has an annoying problem: the search function doesn’t work properly! Since this is one of the most important tools in your mailbox, here’s a workaround that might help. First, look up any pst-files you might have on your computer. Right click on the pst file(s) and select advanced on the general tab. Put a check in the "Allow this file to have contents in addition to the file"…

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02/05/2013

Outlook 2013: Cached Exchange Mode In Outlook 2013, there is a setting that keeps mails offline only for a limited period (by default 1 year). If you need to check older mails frequently, this could be a problem. To change this, go to the account settings and click on the button 'Change' after selecting your acc

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26/03/2013

An overview of the different levels of contribution in Lync 2013

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22/02/2013

Deleting files in Windows 8 In Windows 8, you don't get a warning when deleting a file, it just goes straight to the Recycle Bin. If you want the warning back, right click on the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and select the option Properties. In here, you can check the option "Display delete confirmation dialog".

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15/01/2013

OneNote is a program ideally suited for meetings. But since you usually structure your meetings the same way (agenda, to do’s,…) it would be nice to have some kind of template for this.

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29/11/2012

Let’s say you have a folder with a number of files and you want to have an Excel file that lists those files. Here’s how to do it (Note: this also works in Excel 2003 or older. However, I’m going to explain the Excel 2007/2010 way).

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Tom Van 't Veld 15 blogposts

Share information more efficiently by forwarding e-mails to Teams

How to add sound to your Prezi

PowerPoint 2013: How to switch between widescreen and normal screen slide size

Combining OneNote and Outlook

Outlook 2013 – search malfunctions

Outlook 2013: Cached Exchange Mode

Lync 2013: managing the participants

Deleting files in Windows 8

Template pages in OneNote 2010

Excel 2010: Create a list of file names in a folder

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