7 Microsoft 365 hacks you didn’t know you needed

With the Microsoft 365 suite being such a comprehensive collection of complex programs, sometimes it’s easy to miss some of the handiest tricks. I’ve brought together a few that I find the most useful, and hopefully, they’ll make your Microsoft 365 experience more secure, efficient, and enjoyable.

In this article, I’ll cover six of the most commonly used Microsoft 365 apps—Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams—and explain which hacks work best with each app.

Double-click Format Painter

Works in Excel, Word, OneNote, and PowerPoint.

The Format Painter is an invaluable time-saver, as it allows you to duplicate formatting from one element to another. However, if you need to duplicate that formatting to many other elements, clicking the Format Painter tool each time takes too long.

Instead, there’s a way to keep the Format Painter active as you go through your work and apply the copied formatting to anything you…