How to Integrate a VoIP Phone System Into Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is an incredibly popular choice for a communications platform, but what if you just want to make a simple voice call with your team? RingCentral integrates directly into Teams to give you the best of both worlds: a first-class VoIP system that works alongside Microsoft Teams.

RingCentral has been around for a long time as a great VoIP phone system for small businesses and a powerful fax service, and they’ve recently started offering their video call system as a standalone product, which is really worth a look.

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How to See Song Lyrics on Spotify

Spotify makes it easy to sing along to a song by displaying the song lyrics on the app. We’ll show you how to reveal these lyrics in Spotify on the web, desktop, and mobile phones. Song lyrics are available in multiple languages on this streaming service. However, not all songs have their lyrics available.

Additionally, keep in mind that Spotify rolls out features slowly. It’s possible the song lyrics feature hasn’t reached your account yet.

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How to Change Google Photos Backup Quality

Google Photos is one of the best services for backing up photos and videos to the cloud. There are a couple of upload quality options you can use to maximize your storage space. We’ll show you how it works.

Starting June 1, 2021, Google Photos no longer offers free unlimited storage. Previously, you could back up photos and videos at “High Quality” and they wouldn’t count toward your storage. Now, everything you upload counts, so you may want to adjust the upload quality. The one exception to this is if you use a Google Pixel phone. Those devices still get free unlimited backups with the “Storage Saver”—formerly “High Quality”—upload quality.

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How to Create a Dependent Drop-Down List in Microsoft Excel

Does using a drop-down list in Microsoft Excel make data entry easier for you or your co-workers? If you said yes and want to go a step further, you can create a dependent drop-down list just as easily.

With a dependent drop-down list, you select the item that you want in the first list, and that determines the items that display as choices in the second one. For example, you might select a product, like a shirt, and then pick a size, a food item, like ice cream, and then pick a flavor, or an album, and then pick a song.

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What Is a Slack “Huddle” and How Do I Start One?

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Clubhouse splashed onto the scene with “drop-in” voice-only group chats. Several services have introduced their own versions of this, including Slack. Here’s how you can use Slack for quick “huddles” with your team when you need more than text.

What Is a Huddle in Slack?

A Slack Huddle is a similar concept to Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces in that there’s really not a formal meeting time or invitation. The whole idea is that people can simply “drop-in” to a Huddle whenever. And what actually is a Huddle when you join one? It’s pretty much just an audio-only chat room. There is no option to show yourself with a webcam, but on the desktop, you can share your screen. Huddles are meant for quick, casual discussions.

A Huddle can be started in any Slack channel, including direct messaging if you want to Huddle with one other person. Huddles can have up to 50 participants. You can use Huddles on Slack for desktop, iPhone, iPad, and Android.

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