Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
There are certain situations where you want to share a video with an audience so they can view it, but you don’t want them to be able to download or copy it. Now you can do that with the sharing option of Can view, but not download. Here’s how that works…
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…
I had my mind blown away by Sandra today when she showed me a new feature in SharePoint pages… Section Templates! Now, you can design pages that look *really* awesome without having to be a design wiz. Here’s where they are and how they work and look…
This new SharePoint News feature is one I really like… When you create a new SharePoint News post, the page will calculate the time it takes to read, presenting you with a read time number in the title bar of the article. Here’s what it looks like and how to turn it off if you want…
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…
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…
Have you ever been editing a SharePoint page and wished that you could have someone else working on it at the same time so that you could collaborate? Now you can with the new ability to be editing a SharePoint page or news post at the same time. Here’s how that looks and works…
Microsoft has come out with a new SharePoint page web part that is rather interesting. It’s called an Editorial Card web part, and Microsoft describes it as “The SharePoint Editorial Card web part is a new feature designed to enhance content presentation on SharePoint pages and news. It allows for manual customization, enabling users to create visually appealing card-like containers tailored to specific needs.” Let’s dive in to see what it looks like and how it works…
If you’ve been creating SharePoint pages for some time, you’re likely familiar with the Hero web part. It displays up to five tiles at the top of the page, and it allowed you to have the tiles laid out in a grid or layered down the page. Microsoft has added a new Carousel option for the Hero web part layout, and you might find it interesting to check out. Here’s how it works…
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