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Microsoft Office apps have been unified into a single one, so you don’t need to have the individual Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on your mobile device anymore. If you’re subscribed to Office 365 or Microsoft 365, you will also have access to numerous premium features.

One place for all your files and notes.

The app includes templates for creating Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations, and also supports OneDrive cloud storage.

Office App Availability

The app is now generally available worldwide for all Android and iOS phones. At this moment, there is no iPad version, so iPad users still have to use the standalone apps.

Premium Features

To use extra features, you have to own one of these Office 365 subscriptions:

• Office 365 Personal
• Office 365 Home
• Office 365 Business
• Office 365 Business Premium
• Office 365 Enterprise E3 and E4 (Enterprise and Government)
• Office 365 Education E3 and E4
• Office 365 ProPlus

Some of the premium features that are available on both Android and iOS are table cell customization, WordArt, more colors for formating, page orientation, header and footer customization, page and section breaks, columns in page layout, chart elements, etc.

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The way how people work has changed over the past few years. You probably know the ubiquitous phrase we’ve been hearing about for years – digital transformation. That is what today’s business is all about. The available technology and solutions help us to become more productive.

Microsoft 365 was designed to create a better and more efficient work environment; recently, the tool called Productivity Score was announced. Productivity Score gives insights into how an organization works and shows actions that need to be taken to improve productivity. It’s focused on two areas: technology and employee experience.

The employee experience shows how people collaborate and communicate, how they work from anywhere, and what their meeting culture is like. On the other hand, the technology experience encompasses device optimization and network operation.

Productivity Score Private Preview

Only a private preview version is currently available. For employee experience, you must have an Office 365 commercial plan or a Microsoft 365 subscription, and for technology experience you must have at least 50 Intune or co-managed Windows 10 devices. If you want to try it, feel free to contact us today!

Are you having trouble with arranging meeting appointments? FindTime is a part of the Office family, made especially for the Outlook app, that helps find the right meeting time that suits all the participants.

Allow invitees to vote for suitable times

First, you need to create a new email or select an email to reply to. In the home tab click on Reply with meeting poll, select the dates and a duration.

When all invitees end with voting, the application will determine the most appropriate time based on the results.

Keep in mind!

Your colleagues do not need to install FindTime, they only need an email address and Internet access. Also, you can invite people who don’t use Office 365. Only organizers are required to have an Office 365 account.

The FindTime service is supported in Outlook on the web, Outlook for Windows 2016 version 2016.0.7828.100 and above, and Outlook for Mac 2016.

Also, it’s available for business and educational accounts only!

Need help with FindTime? Contact us!

At the Ignite conference, Microsoft announced a bunch of new features inside the Teams application. We picked a few interesting ones to highlight.

Private Channels

A private channel is the perfect feature for those who need to work on a specific project. A group of people that are part of a team can collaborate in a focused space without spamming others, and without having to create a completely separate Team. It’s designated with a lock icon; only members of private channels can see it and participate in conversations.

Multiwindow

This feature allows users to pop out chats, meetings, calls, and documents into separate windows. It will available from the beginning of 2020.

Pinned channels

Later this year, all Teams users will be able to pin important channels to the top of their team lists.

Pinned applications

Also, It will be possible to pin frequently used apps to the left main rail.

Whiteboard

The whiteboard app is now generally available in Teams meetings. It does not matter if your colleagues are in the same room or working remotely – you can brainstorm together on the same virtual canvas.

Safe links

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection safeguards Teams messages from harmful links. When somebody shares a URL in a private chat or channel conversations, Teams will scan the web address and alert users if there is a threat.

Contact us and start using Teams today!

A simple schedule management tool? That would be Shifts – an app that allows you to organize shifts for first-line workers, such as industrial workers, waiters, health workers and others that work primarily on a shift basis.

You can easily create their shift pattern and communicate with them via Shift, which is integrated into the Teams application.

The key features are:

• Shift management
• Communication among workers
• Communication between workers and managers
• Collaboration
• Employee requests for shift swaps and vacation

Shifts availability

Shifts is available in all Office 365 subscriptions that include the Teams application, including Education and Non-profit plans.

Create a shift in just one click!

The Shifts app is listed in the additional Teams tab (“three dots”).

When you want to create a shift for a team member, you simply double click on an empty slot in the calendar and choose the working hours. The information is shared with your team.

Also, you can add additional activities to employee’s shifts, such as lunch, breaks, etc.

A few things to keep in mind

1. If you are already a Teams user, you can turn the Shifts app on or off in the Teams admin center.
2. Guest users are not supported.
3. You can use it on all your devices: PC, Mac, tablet, smartphone.

Start using Shifts today! Contact us for consultations and education.