If you’ve been creating SharePoint pages for some time, you’re likely familiar with the Hero web part. It displays up to five tiles at the top of the page, and it allowed you to have the tiles laid out in a grid or layered down the page. Microsoft has added a new Carousel option for the Hero web part layout, and you might find it interesting to check out. Here’s how it works…
Category: SharePoint Online
Changes to the Focal Point feature in SharePoint page banners
When you put an image in a SharePoint page banner, you have the ability to change the focal point of how the image is positioned. But you only see a narrow slice of the image, and you have to drag the focal point around without really seeing the full image content. The focal point feature has now changed, and you see the entire image when you’re selecting a focal point. That makes it a lot easier to get the effect you want, and here’s how that looks and works…
Using the Accessibility Assistant on SharePoint pages
Making sure your SharePoint pages and content are accessible for the widest possible audience is important. However, few people are well-versed in accessibility guidelines and what to look for to make pages and content accessible to people who may have vision difficulties. Microsoft now has an Accessibility Assistant on SharePoint pages, and it makes the task of checking for accessibility issues much easier. Here’s how that works…
Microsoft SharePoint: We will retire the “My Feed” web part
Here’s a heads-up from Microsoft concerning the retirement of the My Feed web part in SharePoint…
Pull Quotes on a SharePoint page
When you’re creating a SharePoint page with a moderate amount of text, you may want to have a particular line or two stand out for the reader. You can do this with Pull Quotes. When you’re formatting your text on a page, you can select from four different pull quote styles. Here’s how that works…
Seeing who else is looking at your list in Microsoft Lists
If you’re in a Microsoft modern list, there’s a cool feature you may not have noticed. In the upper-right corner, you can see who else might be using that list at the same time you are. This is how that looks…
Removing the Header section from a SharePoint page
This is a good tip that Sandra sent my way today… Have you ever wanted to create a SharePoint page that didn’t have the normal page header at the top? It had been possible with using some hacks and workarounds, but now you can do it as part of editing your page in the browser. Here’s how that works…
Using Design Ideas on SharePoint Online Pages
If you struggle with coming up with nice layouts on your SharePoint Pages, the new Design Ideas feature will be of interest to you. It can help you come up with design options that you may not have thought of (or like me, are incapable of). Here’s how that works…
Coloring SharePoint and OneDrive folders in Windows File Explorer
Some time ago, Microsoft added a feature to allow you to change the folder color in a SharePoint or OneDrive library. That color would show up in Windows File Explorer, but you couldn’t set the folder color from there. But… now you can! Here’s what that looks like and how it works…