Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
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…
When you’re looking for a file that’s been shared with you in OneDrive, it’s not uncommon to struggle on the name of the file, but remember who shared it with you or what meeting it was part of. Now you can search for files by person or by meeting in OneDrive, making it easier to find that file that is hiding from you. Here’s what that looks like…
When you’re in a document library in SharePoint Online and there is a long list of folders, it can be hard to quickly pick out a particular folder you might use on a regular basis. Now you can make it easier to find a particular folder by changing the color of it in the document library. Here’s how that works…
If you have images stored in OneDrive, it’s now easier than ever to do basic image manipulation to make them look perfect for your site. OneDrive has a new set of photo editing features, and here’s how they work…
Sandra Mahan just blew my mind with a feature in SharePoint Online that makes cleaning up document libraries *so* much easier… the Preview feature. It’s probably been there for a long time, but neither of us had really used it before. Here’s how it works…
When you delete files on Windows or on a Mac that are synchronized to your OneDrive area, it might not be intuitive that those deleted files get deleted *everywhere*. Microsoft now gives you a heads-up on what is happening, as well as an easy way to get to the OneDrive Recycle Bin. Here’s what it looks like…
Due to customer requests to increase file size upload limits, Microsoft now allows uploads of 250 gigabytes (GB) (up from 100 GB) in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online.
Having said that, please do not look at this as a challenge…
If you’re using OneDrive to create documents and files before you’re ready to share them with a larger audience… great job! Now that your document is ready to be shared, you can use the built-in Move and Copy options to get that file out to a SharePoint site without any hassles. Here’s how that works…
If you’ve been working with computers prior to “the cloud”, it’s very easy to have your behavior default to saving your files to your local hard drive or a file share. However, now with SharePoint Online and OneDrive, doing that limits the opportunities you have to work with the files in new and collaborative ways. Instead, start creating and saving your files directly to SharePoint document libraries or your OneDrive space. Here’s how that works…
One Minute Office Magic 