Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
This is a classic tip that I had someone ask me about this last week. They wanted to be able to have files in their SharePoint site open in client applications instead of the browser. I was able to show them how to make a change to the Document Library settings to make that happen. Here’s how that works…
It’s very common to use the Top Story layout in a News web part on a SharePoint page… but now you have a new option: the Filmstrip layout. Here’s how you select it and what it looks like…
If you have a News web part on the home page of a SharePoint Team site, you may run across a scenario where the web part looks like it’s collapsed and News posts that were there now… aren’t. It’s a new feature to allow the home page to show more relevant content and save space. Here’s how it works according to Microsoft…
Microsoft has decided to retire featured links on SharePoint home pages. This was apparently a low-usage feature, and I don’t know that we used it all that much. Here’s the details of Microsoft’s announcement…
Being able to make annotations on PDF files when in SharePoint or OneDrive is great, and now when you’re working in the browser version, you can Undo and Redo those annotations without having to use 3rd party software. Here’s how that works…
If you have a PDF file stored in a SharePoint site or your OneDrive, it’s really easy to add a watermark to the document without having to use any other 3rd party software. Here’s how that works…
This feature has been around for a long time, but I don’t see it used or talked about very often. Did you know you can pin up to three files/folders to the top of a view in a SharePoint document library? If not, here’s how it works and what it looks like…
You may be used to using the Forms feature in a SharePoint list as a quick way to gather initial information for a list item. Now, you can use that same feature to collect a file and associated metadata in a SharePoint document library. This is a great way to make sure people enter the associated metadata for a file without having to take extra steps. Here’s how that works…
It’s been a long time since there’s been any significant changes to the user interface of a SharePoint document library. Microsoft decided to update the layout and make it a bit more “OneDrive-like” in terms of layout and filters. Here’s what it now looks like and how it works…
One Minute Office Magic 