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title: "Microsoft Cloud Monday Issue #21 (16-OCT-23)"
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News and updates covering Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure for small and midsize businesses.

| View in browser Microsoft Cloud Monday   Issue #21 / 16-OCT-23 Introducing Skills in Microsoft Viva, a new AI-powered service to grow and manage talent   Microsoft just unveiled new capabilities in its employee experience platform, Microsoft Viva, including a new AI-powered skills service and the general availability of Viva Amplify, a multichannel workforce communications hub. These new product innovations are designed to help organizations improve employee engagement and productivity, which are critical to becoming a high-performance organization. Read more Introducing new icons, shapes, and templates in Microsoft Visio for the web   Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced new capabilities to help you create and further customize your org charts in Visio for the web, the Visio app in Teams to further enable collaborative diagramming, the new Visio Templates page on Microsoft365.com to improve the start experience, and new capabilities to view and edit shape data in Visio for the web. Now, new icons, shapes, templates and sample diagrams, and color themes are available to Visio for the web users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license. Read more Simplify data entry and reduce errors with checkboxes in cells   Checkboxes in cells is a top customer feature request for simplifying data entry and reducing user errors in Microsoft Excel. To address this feedback, Microsoft has added a new ribbon group called Cell Controls. Now, you can quickly visualize and set TRUE and FALSE values in a cell using checkboxes. Read more Easily create inclusive content with Accessibility features   Microsoft is committed to ensuring that anyone can successfully use its features and be productive. In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Microsoft wants to share some of the tools you could use to make your work and personal life better. These features include voice input and dictation, the Profiles feature in Outlook, Dark Mode in Word, and more! Read more Follow   \|   View   \|   Visit   \|   Meet Cumulus Global, 4 Bellows Road / 2nd Floor, PO Box 1129, Westborough, MA 01581-6129, USA, +1 (508) 948-4070 / (866) 356-1202 Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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