Microsoft sensitivity labels
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 5:58 am
Microsoft has now made sensitivity labels available throughout Microsoft 365 (the programs formerly known as Office 365!). This feature allows you to visually mark and electronically protect your Microsoft 365 files to make sure that they don’t fall into the wrong screens! Here we’ll take a look at how you can use these labels in PowerPoint and how they might affect your design choices throughout your decks.
Screenshot of PowerPoint showing the Sensitivity qatar phone numbers dropdown from the main PowerPoint ribbon
What are sensitivity labels?
Are set up by a Microsoft 365 Administrator (most likely someone in your IT department).
Can be applied across a group of users or an entire organisation.
Provide a way to add pre-defined text labels to presentations, documents and spreadsheets.
Offer optional IRM (Information Rights Management) capabilities, providing access to the file for specific groups of users and locking everyone else out.
How can we use Microsoft sensitivity labels?
Sensitivity labels are useful for those of us who are frequently handling decks that contain, you guessed it, sensitive information. With this tool you’re able to blanket apply text like ‘Confidential – For internal use only’ on all of your slides, without having to go through and copy and paste this message onto every slide. It also allows you to only give access to these confidential decks to select people or just those within your organisation, which helps to support your security.
Screenshot of PowerPoint showing the Sensitivity qatar phone numbers dropdown from the main PowerPoint ribbon
What are sensitivity labels?
Are set up by a Microsoft 365 Administrator (most likely someone in your IT department).
Can be applied across a group of users or an entire organisation.
Provide a way to add pre-defined text labels to presentations, documents and spreadsheets.
Offer optional IRM (Information Rights Management) capabilities, providing access to the file for specific groups of users and locking everyone else out.
How can we use Microsoft sensitivity labels?
Sensitivity labels are useful for those of us who are frequently handling decks that contain, you guessed it, sensitive information. With this tool you’re able to blanket apply text like ‘Confidential – For internal use only’ on all of your slides, without having to go through and copy and paste this message onto every slide. It also allows you to only give access to these confidential decks to select people or just those within your organisation, which helps to support your security.