Efficiency mode What is efficiency mode in Microsoft Edge? Efficiency mode is designed to help extend battery life. It minimizes power usage by reducing resource usage through modifying background tab activity and some foreground activity, as well as putting inactive background tabs to sleep after 30 minutes or less of inactivity (if Save resources with sleeping tabs is on).

Windows share window: Select the Outlook icon in the “Share using” section of the Windows share window to email your files using Outlook directly within the windows share window.It also has a search box. So, you can now search for contacts across Outlook to share a file. The Windows share window also displays 8-10 suggested contacts to quickly share to–including emailing yourself a file.

Learn how to log in to Microsoft Teams with your Microsoft 365 account. This step-by-step guide from Microsoft Support walks you through the process of accessing Teams on desktop, web, and mobile devices.

Leave your Android device in your pocket the next time it rings — pick up the call from your PC instead. Calling requires Bluetooth capability on both your PC and on your Android device, so make sure you have it turned on for both.

Closing a Microsoft account means you won’t be able to use it to sign in to any Microsoft products or services, including Outlook.com or Hotmail, OneDrive, Xbox, Skype, Office or Microsoft 365, Rewards and Microsoft Certification.

To save time on tasks you do often, bundle the steps into a macro. First, you record the macro. Then you can run the macro by clicking a button on the Quick Access Toolbar or pressing a combination of keys.

Export contacts out of other email services. Export iCloud contacts. Export Gmail contacts – See Gmail help. Export Yahoo contacts – See Yahoo import and export help. Export Thunderbird contacts – See Mozilla support.

Using clipboard. When you copy content on your PC, it’s automatically copied to your clipboard for you to paste. Not only can you paste multiple items from your clipboard history, but you can also pin the items you tend to use all the time and sync your clipboard history to the cloud.

When you delete an online-only file from your device, you delete it from your OneDrive on all devices and online. You can restore deleted files and folders from your OneDrive recycle bin on the web for up to 30 days for items stored in OneDrive personal (when you're signed in with a Microsoft account), or for up to 93 days for items stored in OneDrive for work or school or SharePoint in ...

Voice typing. In Windows 11, dictation has been updated and renamed as voice typing. Like dictation, voice typing uses online speech recognition technologies to power its speech-to-text transcription service. You no longer need to turn on the Online Speech recognition setting to use voice typing.