Wise Owl's monthly (ish) news tweet | Issue 72 - November 2023

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Merging cells in Excel, when you should centre across selection? Us too, for many years ...

So your newsletter editor has been using Excel almost since it first came out, and considered himself a guru. Imagine my humiliation when a delegate pointed out I've been stupidly merging and centring cells all these years, with all the column selection problems this gives rise to! The simple solution? Centre across selection.

You can now create - and show - avatars of yourself in Teams, with impressive customisation options

Rather than have your face showing in a Teams meeting, why not create and show an avatar of yourself instead, complete with a range of gestures?

Chat GPT now allows you to post images as well as text - here are 5 things you might like to try

If you have an account with Chat GPT, you should now be able to post images as well as text. Want to see what recipe you can make from some ingredients? Ask Chat GPT what it makes of the rash on your leg? We've got 5 suggestions for things to try (together with our report on how well they worked).

The results of our (unannounced) pre-course art competition - and of last month's logic puzzle

Jenny does the majority of our pre-course tests for online training courses, diligently checking that delegates will be able to connect to Remote Desktop. She usually asks delegates to prove that they have connected to our computers by drawing something quickly in Paint. The results have been impressive, and we've decided to award the best drawing wtih a prize! In other competition news, congratulations to Dave T (who has asked to remain anonymous) for being the first name out of the hat for our October logic puzzle - you can see more details (and the answer) here.

Some surfing or dinosaur games to play in your favourite browser, and some 404 pages to cheer you up

Bored? Why not invest a few minutes in playing the surfing game built into Edge or the T-Rex jumping game built into Chrome (or indeed the driving game accessible from both)? Or have a look at 5 of the best 404 pages we've found?

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