If you have a modern SharePoint Online Communication or Team site, you can now create new content on your site by using the SharePoint app bar running down the left side of your site. This makes it a lot faster to create new content without trying to figure out where you need to be first. Here’s how that works…
Category: SharePoint Online
Creating Private Draft Pages in SharePoint Online sites
When you’re creating new SharePoint Online pages, you sometimes want that page to *only* be viewable by you (or a select view) while you’re building it out. Now you can with the Private Draft Pages feature. Here’s how that works…
The People web part now has a Medium setting
In your SharePoint Online pages, the People web part only had a small and large setting. This was, to borrow a theme from Goldilocks, either too cold or too hot. Now you have a Medium setting, which seems to be… just right. 🙂 Here’s how it works…
Using Page details for version history in SharePoint Online pages
Sandra “clicked a button” the other day, and noticed a cool feature in the Page details option at the top of a SharePoint Online page. You can examine the version history of the page, and see what web parts were edited or deleted. Here’s how that works…
Using Section Template on Microsoft SharePoint Online pages
For each section on a SharePoint Online page, you can add a number of web parts, such as image and text web parts, to make attractive pages. However, if you’re like me, you may not have a keen eye for design and layout. Microsoft is making that a bit easier now by giving you Section Templates on the pages. Here’s how that works…
SharePoint Calendar View Conditional Formatting
If you’re using Calendar views in SharePoint Online, you may have wondered if you can using any conditional formatting to color code the items in the view. Now you can! Here’s how to do that…
Creating a Calendar view on a SharePoint list
While using regular views on a SharePoint list works for many use cases, there are times where displaying list items in a calendar view format works even better. You can now create Calendar views on a SharePoint list, and it’s pretty slick how it can work. Here’s how to make that happen…
Grammar and spell-checking on SharePoint Online modern pages
It’s frustrating to put together a great looking page in SharePoint, only to have someone point out a spelling or grammar error. Up until now, you didn’t have a good way to make sure your page content was spelled correctly and used correct grammar. Now you do… Your content in a text web part on your page will be grammar- and spell-checked. Here’s what it looks like…
Adding the Published date to a SharePoint Online page header
This is a nice feature that we recently had show up in our tenant. You can now set the page header on a SharePoint Online page to show the Published date so that everyone can see when it was last updated. Here’s how you do that…