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…

Video links now show inline in your email in Outlook on the web

This is something that Microsoft has had on the roadmap seemingly forever, but every time I tested to see if it had been rolled out… it wasn’t. Now it is! If you put a video link in an email (and you’re using Outlook on the web), that video will show up in the actual email, and you can watch it from there without going to some other location. Here’s what that looks like…

Theming Outlook on the web with Copilot

Here’s a fun thing you can do with Copilot. If you’re using Outlook on the web, you now have an option to allow Copilot to come up with a theme for Outlook. It may not be quite “ready for prime time”, but it’s kind of fun. Here’s what it is and how it works…

Using the Align feature in Microsoft PowerPoint (and Word)

Have you ever had a number of images on a slide, and you’ve struggled to align them horizontally (or vertically)? You’ve spent way too much time moving things pixel by pixel, and then you wonder if it’s actually perfect? You can make that a lot easier by using the Align feature in PowerPoint (and it’s also available in Word). Thanks to Sandra for sharing this with me. Here’s how it works and looks…