Editing Markdown files in SharePoint and OneDrive

If you are getting immersed in Copilot agents (or system documentation), you are likely seeing more files that end in .md. This is the file extension for markdown files, which are text files that have content and formatting, much like you would see in an HTML file. Markdown files are used extensively in Copilot agents. While you can memorize the formatting of markdown, it’s a lot easier to be able to make changes to a markdown file and see how it will appear when displayed with the formatting. You can now do that with a side-by-side editor for markdown files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive. Here’s what it looks like…

Disabling file previews in Microsoft Teams

In Microsoft Teams, you will often see file previews if someone sends you a file in a chat or conversation. However, you may wish to just see a link to that file so as to not potentially show sensitive information if you’re screen sharing. There’s a setting you can use in Microsoft Teams that will allow you to turn off file previews for your Teams client. Here’s how that works…

Time zones revisited AGAIN… the Teams calendar

Once of my colleagues pinged me today and asked if I could do a tip on how to set time zones in a Teams calendar. I’ve covered it a couple of times for Outlook, but the time zone settings for the Microsoft Teams calendar are separate from the Outlook settings. So… here’s how you add additional time zones in the Teams calendar…

Using the Meeting Recap app in Microsoft Teams

In all likelihood, you spend a LOT of time in Teams meetings during the days and weeks. And trying to find the recaps of those meetings can be… difficult. Now, you can use the Meeting Recap application in Microsoft Teams to find all the recaps of your meetings over the last 30 days in one convenient location. Here’s how that works…