As you consolidate more of your work (and your work day) in Microsoft Teams, it’s a good idea to make as much content as possible available within Teams so you don’t have to search somewhere else for it. The SharePoint Tab in a Microsoft Teams workspace now allows you to show lists and libraries of SharePoint sites in addition to individual pages. Here’s how that works…
Category: SharePoint Online
Audience Targeting in the Quick Links Web Part
The Quick Links web part on a SharePoint Online page is a great way to share a number of relevant link in a compact space. However, you may not always want everyone to see every link in the web part. Now you can use Audience Targeting within the Quick Links web part to filter out who sees what links on the page. Here’s how it works…
Viewing site usage data for your SharePoint Online site
One of the common requests we get on the SharePoint team is whether or not someone can get site usage statistics for their SharePoint site. My usual answer is a qualified “yes”, as they normally want something more detailed than what SharePoint provides. I hope that someday the site usage data becomes more detailed, but until then, here’s what we have and how it works…
Creating and saving files directly in SharePoint Online and OneDrive
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…
Using the Gallery View in a Microsoft List
As part of all the recent changes to lists in SharePoint Online, there’s a new view format you might want to check out… the Gallery View. This is an interesting way to display list data, especially if it involves images. Here’s how it works…
Adding comments to SharePoint Online List items
One of the latest features that’s been added to SharePoint Online (and Microsoft) Lists is the ability to comment on a particular list item. Much like when you add comments to Word or Excel documents, you can now do the same for list items. Here’s how it works…
Using Undo/Redo in SharePoint Online Lists
Have you ever been making updates in a SharePoint Online list using Grid View, and you notice that you incorrectly updated a field that’s updated the list item… or worse, deleted something that shouldn’t have been deleted? Well, you’ll love the new Undo/Redo feature in SharePoint Online lists. Here’s how it works…
The My Feed web part in SharePoint Online
The My Feed web part for SharePoint Online pages is a great way to personalize a site such that people only see the most relevant content that they have access to. This is how it works…
Creating SharePoint Online lists from templates
As part of the changes for Microsoft Lists, there’s been a refresh on how you create new lists in SharePoint Online. One of the more interesting changes is a set of pre-defined templates you can use to get started on a new list. It’s a great starting point for building out a list that fits your needs. Here’s how it works…