If you have a News web part on the home page of a SharePoint Team site, you may run across a scenario where the web part looks like it’s collapsed and News posts that were there now… aren’t. It’s a new feature to allow the home page to show more relevant content and save space. Here’s how it works according to Microsoft…
Retirement of featured links on SharePoint Start Page
Microsoft has decided to retire featured links on SharePoint home pages. This was apparently a low-usage feature, and I don’t know that we used it all that much. Here’s the details of Microsoft’s announcement…
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 289
Episode 289 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Tamara Bredemus, Matthew Ruderman, and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
Creating custom slideshows from a single Microsoft PowerPoint slide deck
It’s tips like this that make me happy to have a wife who also works in the same tech field as I do. 🙂 Have you ever had a PowerPoint slide deck that has a significant number of slides, but you wish you could create smaller custom versions of that deck without having to maintain multiple files? Well, you can using the Custom Slide Show feature! Here’s how that works…
Finding muted Teams meeting chats
There’s little that is more irritating than getting pop-up chat notifications for a meeting you were invited to but aren’t attending. You can mute the chat, but what happens if you need to go back and look at the chat after the fact? This is where the muted Teams meeting chats hang out…
Undo and Redo for PDF annotations on SharePoint/OneDrive for web
Being able to make annotations on PDF files when in SharePoint or OneDrive is great, and now when you’re working in the browser version, you can Undo and Redo those annotations without having to use 3rd party software. Here’s how that works…
Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast – Episode 288
Episode 288 of the Microsoft 365 Pulse Roadmap webcast is now out on YouTube. Join Tamara Bredemus, Matthew Ruderman, and Thomas Duff as we cover this week’s updates.
The layout of a Planner task has changed
When I was working in Planner today, I opened up an existing task and found a significant change in the layout. Here’s a brief look at the new layout as well as a couple of new features…
Using Live Captions in a Microsoft Teams meeting
Live Captions in Microsoft Teams meeting is a somewhat hidden but very useful feature. If you are having issues understanding someone’s speech or if you have a hearing impairment, you might want to check this out. The best thing is… Live Captions are specific to you, and are not part of a meeting recording. Here’s how that works…