Using Design Ideas for a Quick Links web part

I *love* tips that show how to get design help when building SharePoint pages. I have very little sense of design, so my pages can look pretty blah… especially around Quick Links web parts. But using the Design Ideas feature for that web part, you can get some really attractive options that break away from the traditional look and feel. Here’s how that works and looks…

Editing recurring events in Outlook with “This and all following events”

Recurring events in Outlook are great, until you have to edit them. All too often, you wanted to make a change to events going forward from a particular date, but Outlook forced you to also change all past events also, destroying any history of what you might have done at a particular time. Now you have the option to use the This and all following events option when editing recurring events. That preserves your past event history. This is how that looks…

Using the Windows Key + period to get the Emoji pop-up

One of my work colleagues shared this tip with me, and I thought it was so good that I’ll pass it along to you. If you press the Window key + . (the period), you’ll get a cool Emoji pop-up screen along with some other useful clickable goodness. Here’s how that works…

Microsoft Lists: Mobile apps for iOS and Android will retire

This seems to be a theme of late… Microsoft retiring features and applications for various reasons. The latest retirement is the Microsoft Lists mobile application in iOS and Android, and it’ll be completely shut down by mid-November, 2025. There is no reason listed as to why, but I’m going to guess that the mobile app for Microsoft Lists never really gained the traction they expected when they released Microsoft Lists as a whole. To be clear, this doesn’t affect Microsoft Lists in general… only the ability to access and use it on the mobile app.

Here’s the information provided by Microsoft: