Instantly Make the Settings Gear Icon Appear in SharePoint

One of my colleagues in the Microsoft 365 world posted this on his blog today, and it makes me so happy… When you are going to a SharePoint site, often the Settings Gear icon in the upper-right corner takes 5 to 10 seconds to load. That is a pain when you really just want to get to permissions or site contents. But with this little hack, you can get the gear to show up instantly with a single click. Here’s how that works…

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…

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…