Author: Jymbellyn Carthon
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MS Forms tips and tricks
Need to send a simple survey or quiz, but don’t want to pay a vendor fee? Microsoft Forms may be for you! Microsoft (MS) Forms is ideal if you need to send a list of questions to a group of people and capture simple analytics on the results. Some of the advantages of using MS Forms outside…
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Microsoft Office Suite from Office 365/OWA
Did you know that all Emory employees (Healthcare, faculty, staff) as well as students, are eligible for Microsoft (MS) Office via Office 365 without costing you a dime? It gets better – the license allows you to install up to 5 copies of MS Office on your various computers. You are also licensed to install MS…
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Have you heard of Office 365 groups?
Office 365 groups let you choose a set of people that you wish to collaborate with and easily set up a collection of resources for those people to share. You don’t have to worry about manually assigning permissions to all those resources because adding members to the group automatically gives them the permissions they need…
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Messaging Team offers Skype for Business Clinics
Today’s Messaging Team golden nugget features the question, what good is a tool if you don’t know how to use it? We are now introducing Skype for Business Clinics, where the Messaging Team prescribes various best practices on using key features in Skype for Business (Mac and Windows) including: Screen sharing Making a phone call Sending an…
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Nugget of Wisdom – Blocked Senders list
Have you ever received an email from a sender that you would prefer NOT to receive emails from? You can make this happen by adding them to your “Blocked Senders” list. This can be done via OWA (email.emory.edu) by following these instructions: Log in to your account through OWA Click on the gear icon in…
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Nugget of Wisdom – fixing junk mail using rules
Are you having issues with emails that you want to go to your Inbox folder, going to your Junk Mail folder instead? Did you know that you can create a mailbox rule to direct those emails to your Inbox? In fact, you can configure a mail rule that will send the message to any folder…
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Nugget of Wisdom – “Call Answering Rules”
Have you ever heard of “Call Answering Rules”? Call Answering Rules allow you to decide how incoming calls are answered. The way call answering rules are applied to incoming calls is similar to the way inbox rules are applied to incoming e-mail messages. By default, no call answering rules are configured. If an incoming call…