If you plan to exchange digitally-signed documents together with other people, and you want the recipients of your documents to be able to verify the authenticity of your digital signature, you can obtain a digital certificate from a reputable third-party certificate authority (CA).

Sign in to verify your Outlook.com account. When you click the verification link, you're asked to type a series of random characters as shown in a picture. You can listen to an audio file that states the characters if you prefer.

How to get a digital ID or digital certificate for Outlook to prove your identity and prevent message tampering. Sign your emails with a digital ID.

Training: Watch this online training video on Microsoft OneDrive for Business basics to use the navigation pane, file list, and toolbar to create, work, and view your files.

To make quick work of tasks that you do often, in the desktop version of Word you can bundle the steps into macros that run with a single click. In Word for the web, you have to step through such tasks manually. Then follow the instructions for the desktop version of.

Two-step verification (sometimes called multi-factor authentication) helps protect you by making it more difficult for someone else to sign in to your Microsoft account. It uses two different forms of identity: your password, and a contact method (also known as security info).

With Power Query (known as Get & Transform in Excel), you can import or connect to external data, and then shape that data, for example remove a column, change a data type, or merge tables, in ways that meet your needs. Then, you can load your query into Excel to create charts and reports.

You can start a chat with an SMS participant in supported countries, see How to chat via SMS on Microsoft Teams (free) . You can also link your Android in Microsoft Teams (free) to connect your phone to Teams—get access to your SMS text messages and contacts, and receive notifications.