☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ☕ A quick note from me Hello Reader This week has been one of those weeks where several pieces of the puzzle suddenly clicked into place. I've been putting the finishing touches to my new Excel with Copilot workshop and completed a full rehearsal run-through over the weekend. It's always interesting to see what happens when you deliver a session from start to finish. What looks...
10 days ago • 5 min read
☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ☕ A quick note from me Before AI Comes Information Hello and welcome! This week has been largely focused on preparing a new session for ESTECH 2026 and it has reminded me just how much work goes into a one-hour presentation. When delegates attend a conference session, they see the finished product. What they don't see is the thinking, planning, researching, writing, slide...
17 days ago • 4 min read
☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ☕ A quick note from me This is my first full week back in the office after four weeks away… and I won’t lie, the jet lag has been horrid. With a seven-hour time difference, I always say it takes about a week at one hour a day to feel human again. I’m nearly there but it's definitely been a slow return to full speed! That said, it’s been a productive week behind the scenes here...
24 days ago • 3 min read
Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working 🌴 This Week By the time you read this, we’ll just be arriving back home after four weeks in Florida. It’s been a full and rather wonderful trip, a mix of training delivery, precious family time, and some proper thinking space to plan what’s next. And as always, when I step away from the usual routine, the ideas start to take shape. What I’ve been working on Over these past few...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working 🌴 This Week: This week: Confidence grows when you understand what’s possible I’m still in Florida, working a little while while enjoying precious family time, and this week has reminded me that learning Copilot is rarely about one big lightbulb moment. It is usually more like peeling back the outer layers and gradually seeing what is actually possible. This week I spent 90 minutes...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working Hello Reader We are still in Florida where this week I delivered the final session of Microsoft 365 with Copilot: The Human Advantage, this time focusing on Outlook and Teams. It was a lovely way to finish the programme. There were lots of kind thank you messages afterwards, and I know many attendees will be going back to the replays of each session to help cement the learning....
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working 🌴 This Week: Sunshine, Storms… and PowerPoint I’m writing to you from Florida this week, surrounded by grandchildren, bursts of sunshine… and some truly torrential rain. It seems to switch in minutes, one moment blue skies, the next a full-on downpour. Very dramatic, and a good reminder that not everything goes to plan. Sleep hasn’t quite adjusted yet (3am wake-ups are still a...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ✏️ A quick note from me When you read this, I’ll be somewhere over the Atlantic ✈️ I’m on a 12:15 flight heading to the US, landing at 6:00am local time on Thursday 28th. It’s a long one, so I’m hoping I manage at least a few hours of sleep… we’ll see. Since the last newsletter, I’ve delivered another session for my current cohort and this week we focused on Word and Copilot. This...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ☕ A quick note from me This week has been a full one… in the best possible way. I delivered the first session of my Microsoft 365 with Copilot – The Human Advantage course and honestly, it was such a good session. The conversations, the questions, the realisation moments… everything I hoped it would be. What stood out again is this: Copilot is only powerful when it’s grounded in...
2 months ago • 3 min read