As ITLD’s “Top 5” article series enters a new year, let’s take a look back at our most popular articles of 2024. Productivity tips and Microsoft products reigned supreme, along with information on major updates to Zoom and Teams. If you haven’t read these yet, now’s your chance as we start a new year of tips and tricks in 2025!
1: Tips for Using OneNote to Boost Productivity and Organization
Published December 2023
Our most popular article by far during 2024 was ITLD’s Top 5: Tips for Using OneNote to Boost Productivity and Organization. OneNote is a digital notebook tool where you can take notes, organize your thoughts and ideas, and share your content with others. The article covers how to organize content with multiple notebooks, sections, and pages; personalize your notebooks; include multimedia right along with your text notes; sync notes across devices; and collaborate with others.
2: Things You Need to Know About the Switch to Microsoft New Teams
Published April 2024
If you’re reading this, and you use Teams, you have already been using New Teams for months, but if you haven’t already read ITLD’s Top 5: Things You Need to Know About the Switch to Microsoft New Teams you might still learn something new about improvements to the application! The article covers the new appearance and settings, using Loop Components to collaborate on content, meeting prep and follow-up with the Meet app, and updates to the integration with OneDrive.
3: Tips for Microsoft 365 Productivity Tools
Published February 2024
With a focus on storage and collaboration for departments and teams, ITLD’s Top 5: Tips for Microsoft 365 Productivity Tools is a basic primer on the interaction between Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. The article covers differences between the web and desktop versions of these applications, where to store private vs. shared files, and how to collaborate and access shared files.
4: Essential Excel Tips for Boosting Your Productivity
Published September 2024
Microsoft Excel can go far beyond basic spreadsheet functions, and ITLD’s Top 5: Essential Excel Tips for Boosting Your Productivity shares some Excel features that can greatly enhance your productivity. The article covers using advanced charting for data visualization, searching with the VLOOKUP formula, using pivot tables to summarize data, data validation, and collaboration.
5: Tips for Getting the Most out of Zoom 6.0
Published June 2024
Zoom made some major updates to their desktop app in 2024 and ITLD’s Top 5: Tips for Getting the Most out of Zoom 6.0 introduces the most essential new features. The article covers the updates to Zoom’s appearance and how you can customize it, the new simultaneous screen sharing feature, the Music and Timer apps, multi-speaker view, and dynamic reactions.