Using the Spacer web part on SharePoint pages

This was a thing I don’t think I had ever noticed until Sandra pointed it out to me recently. There’s a way you can add vertical white space in a SharePoint page section without resorting to line feeds in a Text web part. You can use the Spacer web part for a precise level of control. Here’s how it works and looks…

Expanded view of the profile card in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has been working to provide more information on the Profile Card that appears if you click on someone’s picture in various Microsoft 365 applications. But while Outlook had the expanded Profile Card that showed the most information, Microsoft Teams wasn’t up to the same level. Now, you can click on a person’s profile picture in Teams and get the same expanded profile information that you’d find in Outlook. Here’s what it looks like…

Meeting participants time-zone notifications

If your organization is spread out over multiple time zones, it can be hard to set up a meeting if you’re not aware of what time it might be for a particular group of people. Maybe a 4 pm meeting is good for you on the west coast of the US, but it would be 7 pm for those on the east coast. Now, if you’re using Outlook on the browser, you can see the attendee time zones when using the Scheduling Assistant. Here’s what that looks like…

Automatically formatting a mailto link in an Outlook email

As you may be aware, you can create a clickable hyperlink that opens a new email automatically addressed to someone, along with a subject link. However, sometimes it’s a bit difficult to remember the format and syntax of the link. If you’re doing this in the Outlook client, there’s an easy way to get the link created and formatted properly without having to remember any of the parameters. Here’s how that works…