Clipboard History in Windows 11

I really enjoy having a wife that works in the same technology field that I do. At dinner last night, she said “Here’s a SparkOne tip for you… Clipboard History in Windows!” Boom… mind blown! This feature allows you to store a history of clipboard copies so you can easily refer back to them when you need to paste that text again. Here’s how it works…

Past calendar event color changes for Outlook on the web

So… this isn’t an earth-shattering change, but It’s sort of interesting. Sandra noticed yesterday that when viewing the Outlook calendar on Outlook on the web, meetings that were before the current date and time now appear in a lighter color gradient than current/future meetings. Here’s what that looks like…

Using Copilot to get a summary of a PDF document

I recently covered how Copilot provides an automatic summary of a Word document from SharePoint or OneDrive. Copilot also does much the same thing with a PDF document, but it’s not as “automatic” as it is with Word. Here’s how the summary works for PDFs…

Using Copilot to get a summary of a Word document

Have you ever opened up a large Word document from SharePoint or OneDrive, and you wish you could easily get a summary of the document automatically so that you have some idea of what it contains? Now, Copilot will provide that for you! Here’s what it looks like when you open that large Word doc…

SharePoint Alerts retirement

So this is the end of an era… the ability to set alerts in a SharePoint list or library is being retired. Microsoft is recommending more modern notification solutions for those types of notifications. Here’s what they have shared…

Getting a jumpstart on a Microsoft List using templates

Back in the olden days, creating a new list in a SharePoint site was pretty much a case of naming a bare-bones new list and then starting to build out the list, field by field. Heaven help you if you needed some ideas on what to do to set up a list like an issue tracker… However, Microsoft has really improved the process of starting a new list by the use of templates! Here’s what that looks like…