Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
There are times when you’d like to keep track of things to do in a document, such as reminders to find more information, get reviews from particular people, and so forth. When you’re using Word on the web for a document stored in SharePoint Online or OneDrive, you can now do that with the Follow-up and @mention features. Here’s how that works…
One of the common requests we get on the SharePoint team is whether or not someone can get site usage statistics for their SharePoint site. My usual answer is a qualified “yes”, as they normally want something more detailed than what SharePoint provides. I hope that someday the site usage data becomes more detailed, but until then, here’s what we have and how it works…
If you’ve been working with computers prior to “the cloud”, it’s very easy to have your behavior default to saving your files to your local hard drive or a file share. However, now with SharePoint Online and OneDrive, doing that limits the opportunities you have to work with the files in new and collaborative ways. Instead, start creating and saving your files directly to SharePoint document libraries or your OneDrive space. Here’s how that works…
As part of all the recent changes to lists in SharePoint Online, there’s a new view format you might want to check out… the Gallery View. This is an interesting way to display list data, especially if it involves images. Here’s how it works…
I ran across this tip today at TheExcelAddict.com site – Open A Specific Workbook Every Time Excel Starts. It shows how you can set up Excel to automatically open all the spreadsheet files in a particular folder when you start Excel. Here’s how that works…
One of the latest features that’s been added to SharePoint Online (and Microsoft) Lists is the ability to comment on a particular list item. Much like when you add comments to Word or Excel documents, you can now do the same for list items. Here’s how it works…
Prior to the advent of cloud computing, sending attachments via email meant that each recipient got their own copy of the file(s), leading to wasted bandwidth, excessive disk storage, and no way to have a “single source of truth” file since everyone had their own copy. But now with the cloud, you can choose instead to send a link to your file that’s stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, and everyone can work off that single copy. Here’s how that works…
Most of us get deluged with email on a daily basis, and it’s hard to get your emails to stand out and get noticed by your recipients. Did you know you can use the @mention feature in Outlook to mention someone in the body of your email and also include them in the To field? Here’s how that works…
Now that many of us are working from home and attending seemingly endless online meetings, the issue of background noise has become a common battle. Dogs, voices, kids, and various other sounds make it into the meeting, and it’s often hard to filter it out short of going on mute. Now Microsoft Teams has a Noise Suppression setting that you can use to have a more automated approach to suppressing your background noise. Here’s how it works…
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