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Time grouping enhancements in Excel 2016 

Excel 2016 introduces new and efficient capabilities. PivotTables, both native and data model based, now support automatic time grouping, and PivotCharts include drill-down buttons. Today we will walk through all the new and cool options for building PivotTables with a Date/Time column and show how to surface time-based insights in your data.
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Make your own custom shapes in PowerPoint 

Shapes can be used to add interest to a presentation, to emphasize a point, or just to make your presentation look a bit more exciting. PowerPoint’s shapes are great because you can format them with colors, 3-D effects and shadows, and they always look perfect, even when you scale them really large or very small.
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6 updates in Power Query for Excel 

This month’s Power Query for Excel update is now available to you and is packed with lots of new features including improvements to the ODBC Connector and the Navigator dialog, the ability to download queries faster, expanded support for Salesforce Custom environments, and improvements to date and time parsing and the Unpivot column features.
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Document font embedding demystified 

For many years, Office on Windows has offered users the ability to embed fonts within electronic documents such as Word documents or PDF files. However, we often get questions about the font embedding feature and today are providing you with details on what font embedding is and how you can use in your electronic documents.