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Domain-specific searching in Microsoft Teams

While you’ve been able to get search results in Microsoft Teams, you often got WAY more results than you wanted, and it was hard to narrow things down. Now with domain-specific searching, you can narrow down your search results in much the same way you narrow down search results in Microsoft 365. Here’s how that works…

Using Layers in the Hero web part in SharePoint pages

If you’ve created SharePoint pages, you’ve probably used the Hero web part to display up to five windows of content. But Sandra showed me a variation of the Hero web part that I’ve never noticed before… layers! Layers gives you a different layout and the opportunity to have more context in each of the areas. Here’s how that works and looks…

New document library templates for SharePoint Online

Up to now, creating a new document library in a SharePoint Online site was something that was “bare bones” in nature. You had a couple of basic fields, and you had to build any additional metadata fields on your own. Now, Microsoft gives you some options in terms of document library templates you can choose from. These may be a good starting place for you when building out a new process. Here’s what they are…

Marking favorite documents for referencing in OneDrive

Throughout OneDrive and SharePoint, you probably have a number of “favorite” documents that you reference on a regular basis. But how do you keep them in a place where you can easily reference them on an ongoing basis? You can use the Favorites feature in OneDrive to “bookmark” those documents in a single list to refer back to them when needed. Here’s how that works…