Here you can find all of Happy’s blog posts, covering our Excel hints and tips, ideas for creating happy workplaces, and ways to be more productive at work — and more.
Pivot Tables are a fantastic way to make sense of complex tables of data. In this two-minute video, Nicky explains how your Pivot Tables can show group your data by Month and Year with just a few clicks.
Many leaders and managers will continually delegate tasks to the person they know will get it right every time, or else give things to a new recruit who’s full of beans and eager to please. But Happy's Cathy Busani knows this practice is flawed and has instead started delegating to the team and allowing them to decide who does what. In this two-minute video from the 2018 Happy Workplaces Conference, Cathy explains how to delegate tasks successfully.
During her presentation at the 2018 Happy Workplaces conference, Woohoo inc’s Arlette Bentzen underlined how random acts of kindness can be effective in enhancing total workplace happiness. In this short video, Arlette explains the principle is very simple: do something nice for your colleagues and they’ll become happier.
Try locating the word ‘workhappiness’ in the English dictionary. You won’t find it. In Danish, however, there is a word for this condition – arbejdsglaede. Woohoo inc claim to be the happiness-at-work experts. Arlette Bentzen is the Danish company’s Chief Happiness Officer, meaning there’s no one better positioned to give tips on attaining arbejdsglaede. Watch Arlette's full presentation at the 2018 Happy Workplaces Conference, in which she offers three work-happiness tips derived from some of Denmark’s most progressive workplaces.
New features are regularly added to Microsoft Office 365’s assorted apps to improve user experience. These updates are so frequent that even regular 365 users won’t necessarily be aware of all the new additions. In July 2020, this included allowing users to control their PowerPoint presentation using Microsoft's Surface Earbuds. Find out more about this and the other newly added features in this blog.
We’re currently enduring the worst public health pandemic in 100 years. Life has already undergone dramatic change and a return to “normal” is still a long way off. But despite seeming to move from one cataclysm to another in recent months and years, we live in profoundly progressive times. Modern humans are capable of amazing things. Here are five good news stories to provide respite from the doom and gloom of a regular news bulletin.
Quick Analysis is one of the features introduced in Excel 2013. It allows you to visually spot trends and information in your spreadsheets, with just a few clicks. This is a really simple trick that even those of you brand new to Excel will be able to use. In this video, Nicky will show you how to use Quick Analysis and some of the Formatting tools - and how to clear it if you don't want to see the information anymore.
Many people are working from home during this pandemic. For many, shifting to this alternative pattern of work can be an easy step, but for others it can prove daunting. In this blog, Joseph offers a few observations to help you stay fit mentally, emotionally and physically while working from home.
Master Slides enable you to update all of your PowerPoint slides in a presentation at once. This ensures that all of your slides have the same formatting, making your presentation look more professional and consistent. In this short video, Nicky explains how to update your Master Slides, including the background, font and text size.
People making the transition into working remotely will be pleased to know the technology for seamless remote working is readily available. You’re probably familiar with a number of leading services already, as even companies that don’t promote flexible working models have augmented their workspaces with various apps. In this blog Billy explores 6 easy-to-use services that will improve your remote working experience, that you may not have heard of.