Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
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…
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…
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…
If you have a PDF file stored in a SharePoint site or your OneDrive, it’s really easy to add a watermark to the document without having to use any other 3rd party software. Here’s how that works…
This feature has been around for a long time, but I don’t see it used or talked about very often. Did you know you can pin up to three files/folders to the top of a view in a SharePoint document library? If not, here’s how it works and what it looks like…
You may be used to using the Forms feature in a SharePoint list as a quick way to gather initial information for a list item. Now, you can use that same feature to collect a file and associated metadata in a SharePoint document library. This is a great way to make sure people enter the associated metadata for a file without having to take extra steps. Here’s how that works…
It’s been a long time since there’s been any significant changes to the user interface of a SharePoint document library. Microsoft decided to update the layout and make it a bit more “OneDrive-like” in terms of layout and filters. Here’s what it now looks like and how it works…
Out of the box, the header on your SharePoint site pages are pretty plain. But there is a way that you can add some flair to it, especially if you want to make it stand out or apply a bit of theming. You do this using the Change the look option. This is now it works…
If you have used the legacy Power BI integration in your SharePoint list or library (Visualize the List or Visualize the Library), you need to know that this feature is going to be retired starting in mid-November. Here’s what those options look like, and the information that Microsoft has provided on what replaces it…
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