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Microsoft have announced a set of new features in Microsoft Teams that make virtual interactions more natural, more engaging, and ultimately, more human. These features offer three key benefits for people at work and in education. First, they help you feel more connected with your team and reduce meeting fatigue. Second, they make meetings more […]

Our current public health crisis is creating enormous challenges for institutions of higher education. Chief among these are campus closures and the need to switch to remote or hybrid learning, concerns over the health and well-being of students, faculty, and the community, and the need to understand the impacts on academic research. Read more >

Microsoft have setup an interactive Teams demo site to help you see all the features and read explanations about how to use them.  No install required. Visit https://teamsdemo.office.com/ 

According to today’s Guardian, the advice is clear, you can undertake training while on furlough during the current Corona Virus lockdown. Training is allowed, but only if it does not provide services to, or generate revenue for, the employer. It must also be directly relevant to an employee’s role and must be first agreed between

What is Microsoft Teams? A key collaboration tool, within one window, users can use Microsoft Teams to call upon a variety of key Microsoft Office 365 apps and tools to help them work more effectively, such as: Calendars and meetings (Outlook) Create, share, edit and find content (SharePoint, OneDrive and OneNote) Call and meet team members

*** 18th March 2020 *** Due to official advice on social distancing to limit the spread of Covid-19 we are temporarily suspending our face-to-face training delivery to focus on Remote Learning and Support options – our development projects continue and we are expanding our live streaming interactive virtual classroom sessions and online customer support. All our

If you are homeworking you can collaborate with OneDrive. Microsoft’s OneDrive can be used to: Access and edit your files from all your devices. Share inside or outside your organization. Work together in real-time on Office documents. Quickly find the files that matter to you. Keep your files protected and backed up. Saving your files

Posted on 12/03/2020 Corona Virus Covid-19 At Eident we are monitoring and following current government/NHS advice and guidelines relating to the Covid-19 outbreak. Information can be found at: https://www.gov.scot/coronavirus-covid-19/ https://www.nhsinform.scot/coronavirus https://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/a-to-z-of-topics/covid-19/ The Scottish Government has also set up a dedicated helpline to supply businesses with tailored advice on coronavirus. It will be open Monday to

How much time is wasted searching for the correct email addresses when composing a message in Microsoft Outlook?  Here we will help you to organise your Microsoft Outlook Contacts and Address Book to make life simpler and save you time. Creating a Microsoft Outlook Contact List When you open the Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder, Outlook

Larry Tesler, the computer scientist widely credited as the inventor of the cut, copy and paste functions, has died aged 74. “The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more, was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler,” Xerox tweeted. “Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas.” He worked for a number of