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In Windows 10 you can easily manage all your open apps, browsers and programs with just one flick of your fingers. This short video will  show you the simple windows 10 features that make this possible.

Video Highlights

0:00:00.22 Favourite features around Windows 10

0:00:00.41 How to interact with browser tabs and apps

0:00:01.53 What is task view or multiple desktop

0:00:02:46 All new features including Cortana

 

Transcript: Quick tips for using Windows 10 you’ll love!

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Hi Mike Reading here from www.usingtechnologybetter.com. Welcome to Lesson 5 or Part 5 of a five part series where we’re showing you our favorite tips and tricks to just making your internet experience or your web based experience a little bit easier.

Today I just want to take a little bit of a different tact and show you some of my favorite features around Windows 10 and I don’t want to rehash a lot of the talk that’s happened about Windows 10. For instance, now you know if you go to the bottom we have the old user interface where we’ve got our file explorer and so on. Now I don’t want to talk about that, but what I do want to talk about is I want to talk about how we can interact with the browser tabs and the apps that are open on our screen.

Now I’ve got a number of different tabs open down here in my edge browser. I’ve also got a Google Chrome browser open. I’ve got some apps open and so on. So sometimes you know that you can go alt tab and you can flick through your different screens to see different things but if you’re on a touch enable devise what you can do is just simple take your finger and swipe from the left to the right and what it will do is it will show you everything that you’ve got open in that desktop all in one place. So it’s simply just dragging your finger.

If you wanted to very quickly go back to your desktop all you need to do is just grab three fingers and run three fingers down on your track pad and you’ll go straight back to your desktop and if you want to bring back all your windows then you just need to scroll up from the bottom to the top with your three fingers and it will all come back. Now whenever we show that to teachers they love it because it’s just a quick efficient way to be able to interact with your particular apps or your browsers that are open.

Now you might notice down on the bottom here that there’s this little button or, if I scroll down and get back to my desktop you’ll see the big cleaner, this is what’s called my task view all multiple desktops. So if you don’t have a touch enabled device and you can’t scroll or you can’t swipe from left to right all you need to do is go down to your task bar and click on this button down on the bottom here and it gives you the same experience.

Now you might notice that down on the very bottom of my screen here that I...

Microsoft is making some great progress in the cloud collaboration space with their Office 365 product.  In this short video, and video transcript we show you how you can increase collaboration and access to your documents with the O365 suite of tools. 

Video Highlights

0:00:00.16   Review of  Part 1 Edge Browser

0:00:00.30   Review of Part 2 Chrome Browser and its features

0:00:00.40   Review of Part 3 Google Drive account for Google Apps

0:00:01.19   How to copy or move files and folders in Office 365

0:00:02.00   How Office 365 cloud collaboration is similar to using Microsoft office on PC

0:00:02.44   Working from the full version of Word then moving back to the cloud version and vice versa

0:00:03.24   Introduction to Part 5 which is Windows 10

Transcript: How To Use Office 365 To Improve User Experience

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Hi Mike Reading here from www.usingtechnologybetter.com. Welcome to Part 4 of a five part series where we’re just showing you some of our favorite tips and tricks that really help improve your user experience when you’re using web tools.

In Part 1 we had a look at the Edge browser and some great features that I’m truly excited about in terms of creating resources for students and interacting with our different apps and programs that we use in the classroom. We then had a look at our Chrome browser and some features that are built into Chrome that really improve the user experience and so I would encourage you to go and have a look at Part 1 and Part 2. In Part 3 we looked at our Google Drive account for Google apps for education or just Google apps if you’re in a business and how we can just better manage shared folders and I gave you some tips that are really going to stop you losing documents in your school, people deleting documents, moving documents and so on. I know this is creating a lot of hassles in businesses and schools all around the world but it can be solved reasonably easily. So make sure you go back and check out that session as well.

In this session I want to give you a couple of tips around Office 365 and Office is making some great progress in the cloud collaboration space and I want to just point those out to you.

The first thing that I wanted to show you was that in our Office 365 account we can have our files and our folders much like we can have inside Google Drive but the same problem occurs. If I choose a particular file in a shared folder you’ll see that there is the ability here to move this document but we don’t want to move it because it just creates those problems. Office 365 does have the option here to ‘copy to’, so in Lesson 3 we looked at how to use ‘Shift Z’ in Google. In Office 365 make sure you’re using the copy to and not the move to version and that just saves some of those hassles that you have in there.

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