Trying to capture slides from a webinar presentation? Need to show IT an issue?

You'll need to take screenshots. And if you've got Windows, you already have the right tool.

I'll cover how to use it and explore all the cool screenshot upgrades coming to Windows 11!

Plus:

• a creative use of Excel
• get to know what Power BI is all about
• Recall out (for now), Copilot for OneDrive in (soon)

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🎬 How to Take a Screenshot

Whenever you have to take a screenshot, there's a free tool you can use.

Many people don't know about it. Others forget that it's there.

Some even take photos of their monitor, which leads to hard-to-read angles and screen glare.

Meanwhile, the Snipping Tool is already on your computer.

Always at the ready, with a handy shortcut.

See how you can get the most out of it.

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Watch the video to learn:

• how you can get back to the old behavior of the PrintScreen key on Windows 11
• how to add annotations to your screenshot (including shapes and emojis 👀‼️)
• what happened to the ruler
• copy text from an image
• open links from QR codes
• record your screen

and more.

No worries if you can't find the annotation feature on your version of the Snipping Tool yet – it's coming soon. What I show in the video was recorded on my PC with Windows Insider installed.

🕵️ BTW, any idea how I made the values in Excel disappear as I typed them at 09:20? Here's the solution.

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Power BI Free Preview

If you're curious about Power BI and you haven't taken our free preview yet, now's your chance.

Sign up for Power BI Quick Start. It's completely FREE.

In an hour, you'll go through all the key elements of Power BI and create a report. You'll connect to data, prepare it for analysis, and visualize it to gain valuable insights.

You can decide if Power BI will be a useful tool in your work without committing to a full course.

📢 Heads up if you're already enrolled in our full course Fast Track to Power BI: We've recently completed another batch of updates catching you up on the latest features added to Power BI.

We showcase the new features using course data, so you can take them for a spin with the files you already have.

Power BI is an evolving app, with updates released every month. We don't want to leave you behind.

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🤓 Geeky News

🤖 Recall getting recalled, Copilot for OneDrive set to land

Controversy around Microsoft Recall delayed its planned release.

Now concerns arise around Copilot for OneDrive, which is expected to drop in the summer. It's part of Copilot for Microsoft 365 for business and education.

Copilot will let users ask natural-language questions about OneDrive files. It's going to help locate them and extract information from the files.

Microsoft assures its business customers that Copilot follows all the security and privacy requirements of Microsoft 365. All data is kept within the organization and it's not used to train the machine learning models.

🎨 New features in Microsoft Designer

Microsoft Designer uses DALL-E to generate images. It recently introduced 2 new functionalities: Sticker Creator and Restyle Image.

Sticker Creator allows you to make digital stickers from scratch. Simply describe the desired design.

Restyle Image transforms photos into various artistic styles. Turn them into pop art or 3D illustrations.

You can use Microsoft Designer for free with a personal Microsoft account.

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💚 Who said you can't do anything creative in Excel?

Here's a cool find from Andrew Moss on LinkedIn.

Spotify has launched a music video made entirely in a spreadsheet to promote its B2B media campaign, "Spreadbeats".

They used "built-in functions including ASCII, Graphs, Unicode, and conditional formatting".

Did you notice the sheet name changing?

Commenters on LinkedIn were quick to point out that literature got there first. Check out this quote from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams:

What do you think? Do you see a future in combining music, spreadsheets, and accounting? 😁

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👏 Power Stories

Congratulations to Marisa on completing Fast Track to Power BI.

That's great that you're already implementing insightful and actionable reports.

Got a success story about using your XelPlus skills? I’d love to hear it! Hit reply to share the details, and inspire other students 😇

See you next week,

Leila

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