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Using Copilot to get a summary of a PDF document

I recently covered how Copilot provides an automatic summary of a Word document from SharePoint or OneDrive. Copilot also does much the same thing with a PDF document, but it’s not as “automatic” as it is with Word. Here’s how the summary works for PDFs…

Using Copilot to get a summary of a Word document

Have you ever opened up a large Word document from SharePoint or OneDrive, and you wish you could easily get a summary of the document automatically so that you have some idea of what it contains? Now, Copilot will provide that for you! Here’s what it looks like when you open that large Word doc…

SharePoint Alerts retirement

So this is the end of an era… the ability to set alerts in a SharePoint list or library is being retired. Microsoft is recommending more modern notification solutions for those types of notifications. Here’s what they have shared…

Getting a jumpstart on a Microsoft List using templates

Back in the olden days, creating a new list in a SharePoint site was pretty much a case of naming a bare-bones new list and then starting to build out the list, field by field. Heaven help you if you needed some ideas on what to do to set up a list like an issue tracker… However, Microsoft has really improved the process of starting a new list by the use of templates! Here’s what that looks like…

Video links now show inline in your email in Outlook on the web

This is something that Microsoft has had on the roadmap seemingly forever, but every time I tested to see if it had been rolled out… it wasn’t. Now it is! If you put a video link in an email (and you’re using Outlook on the web), that video will show up in the actual email, and you can watch it from there without going to some other location. Here’s what that looks like…