Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
When you put an image in a SharePoint page banner, you have the ability to change the focal point of how the image is positioned. But you only see a narrow slice of the image, and you have to drag the focal point around without really seeing the full image content. The focal point feature has now changed, and you see the entire image when you’re selecting a focal point. That makes it a lot easier to get the effect you want, and here’s how that looks and works…
Making sure your SharePoint pages and content are accessible for the widest possible audience is important. However, few people are well-versed in accessibility guidelines and what to look for to make pages and content accessible to people who may have vision difficulties. Microsoft now has an Accessibility Assistant on SharePoint pages, and it makes the task of checking for accessibility issues much easier. Here’s how that works…
When you’re creating a SharePoint page with a moderate amount of text, you may want to have a particular line or two stand out for the reader. You can do this with Pull Quotes. When you’re formatting your text on a page, you can select from four different pull quote styles. Here’s how that works…
This is a good tip that Sandra sent my way today… Have you ever wanted to create a SharePoint page that didn’t have the normal page header at the top? It had been possible with using some hacks and workarounds, but now you can do it as part of editing your page in the browser. Here’s how that works…
If you struggle with coming up with nice layouts on your SharePoint Pages, the new Design Ideas feature will be of interest to you. It can help you come up with design options that you may not have thought of (or like me, are incapable of). Here’s how that works…
A new change is now available when it comes to versioning in SharePoint document libraries. It used to be that you could only control the number of versions you kept. Now you can also add a time-based element to your versioning. This is what it looks like and how it looks…
There’s also one other new SharePoint page banner… it’s called Fade. It’s not as impressive as the new Author banner type, but it’s worth knowing about. Here’s how it works and looks…
When Sandra was sharing some new features with me, she happened to stumble across this new addition to the SharePoint page banners… the Author banner! This looks really slick, and is great for pages that want to make the author of the page more evident. Here’s how it works and looks…
It used to be when you’d share a file in SharePoint or OneDrive, that link was valid until such time as you removed the person from the access to the file. Now you can simply set an expiration date on the link, and they will no longer be able to access the file after that date. Here’s how that works…
One Minute Office Magic 