Windows background apps and your privacy - Microsoft Support
In the Background apps permissions section, under Let this app run in the background, select one of the following options: Always—The app runs in the background, receiving info, sending notifications, and staying up-to-date even when you're not actively using it.This option may use more power.
How to perform a clean boot in Windows - Microsoft Support
How to determine what is causing the problem after you do a clean boot. If your problem does not occur while the computer is in a clean boot environment, then you can determine which startup application or service is causing the problem by systematically turning them on or off and restarting the computer.
View previous versions of Office files - Microsoft Support
Use Version History to view previous versions of files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint libraries.
Applies To: Excel for Microsoft 365, Word for Microsoft 365, PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac, Word for Microsoft 365 for Mac, PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 for Mac, Excel for the web, Excel 2024, PowerPoint 2024, Excel 2024 for Mac, Word 2024 for Mac, PowerPoint 2024 for Mac, Excel 2021, Word 2021, PowerPoint 2021, Excel 2021 for Mac, Word 2021 for Mac, PowerPoint 2021 for Mac, Excel 2019, Word 2019, PowerPoint 2019, Excel 2019 for Mac, Word 2019 for Mac, PowerPoint 2019 for Mac, Excel 2016, Word 2016, PowerPoint 2016
Create a presentation in PowerPoint - Microsoft Support
Training: Watch and learn how to create a PowerPoint presentation, add/format text, and add pictures, shapes, and/or charts.
Applies To: PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, PowerPoint 2024, PowerPoint 2024 for Mac, PowerPoint 2021, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 2016
Dictate your documents in Word - Microsoft Support
Learn how to use your voice to create and edit documents in Word with the Dictate feature. Find out how to enable, customize, and troubleshoot Dictation.
Applies To: Word for Microsoft 365, Word for Microsoft 365 for Mac, Word for the web, Word 2024, Word 2024 for Mac, Word 2021, Word 2021 for Mac, Word 2019, Word 2019 for Mac, Word 2016
Cancel your Microsoft subscription - Microsoft Support
Note: In the following countries, you can cancel your subscription, and depending on the subscription length you may be entitled to a prorated refund.See Countries with prorated refunds for Microsoft subscriptions for more information. Any subscription length - Canada, Israel, Korea, and Turkey Subscriptions longer than 1 month and renewed - Denmark, Finland, Germany (purchases on or after ...
Applies To: Microsoft account dashboard
Get started with Copilot in Excel - Microsoft Support
Enter your prompts and start working with Copilot. Here are some samples to get you started: • "Create a bar graph showing the sales growth between Q2 and Q3." • "Bold the top 3 values in Annual Sales." • "Add a new column showing the percentage difference between column A and column C."
Applies To: Excel for Microsoft 365, Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac, Excel for iPad, Excel Web App
Mail merge using an Excel spreadsheet - Microsoft Support
Here are some tips to prepare your Excel spreadsheet for a mail merge. Make sure: Column names in your spreadsheet match the field names you want to insert in your mail merge.
Applies To: Word for Microsoft 365, Word for Microsoft 365 for Mac, Word 2024, PowerPoint 2024 for Mac, Word 2021, Word 2021 for Mac, Word 2019, Word 2019 for Mac, Word 2016
Create an org chart in PowerPoint by using a template
To get a quick start on creating an org chart, download a pre-designed org chart template, and then customize it.. Get the template for a chart. In PowerPoint, on the File tab, click New.
Applies To: PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 for Mac, PowerPoint 2024, PowerPoint 2024 for Mac, PowerPoint 2021, PowerPoint 2021 for Mac, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 2019 for Mac, PowerPoint 2016
Speech, voice activation, inking, typing, and privacy
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.