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…
Automatically opening selected files when starting Excel
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…
Adding comments to SharePoint Online List items
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…
2021/02/09 – Sending files in Outlook… attachments or links?
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…
The @mention feature in Outlook
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…
Reducing background noise in Microsoft Teams meetings
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…
End Of Meeting notifications in Microsoft Teams
I’ll admit it… I get frustrated when someone is running a meeting, the ending time is quickly approaching, and they seem oblivious to the clock. Microsoft Teams meetings now help address that a bit by providing End Of Meeting Notifications at the five minute mark. Here’s how it works…
Using Undo/Redo in SharePoint Online Lists
Have you ever been making updates in a SharePoint Online list using Grid View, and you notice that you incorrectly updated a field that’s updated the list item… or worse, deleted something that shouldn’t have been deleted? Well, you’ll love the new Undo/Redo feature in SharePoint Online lists. Here’s how it works…
Microsoft Teams and the pre-meeting join experience
One of the important things to do when you join a Microsoft Teams meeting is make sure your video and audio options are set properly based on your current environment. It used to be that you’d have to join the meeting first, and then look for the options to fix everything (like muting yourself or turning on your video). Now there’s a new pre-meeting joining experience to let you set those before you enter the meeting. Here’s how it works…
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