5 ways to display Employee Birthdays and Anniversary Dates in SharePoint Online
One of the common requests for Company Intranets is the ability to display employee birthdays or anniversary dates on a main SharePoint Intranet landing page. While there is no dedicated, out of the...
View ArticleHow to replace a classic root site in SharePoint Online with a modern site
If your organization enrolled in the Office 365 subscription prior to April 2019, your root SharePoint site was created with what we now call “classic team site template.” While all new sites you...
View ArticleHow to add custom metadata columns to the Filters Pane in SharePoint Online
One of the coolest features of a modern document library in SharePoint Online is the ability to filter the contents using metadata. Just click on a filters pane on the right-hand side, choose the...
View Article6 ways to add comments to documents in SharePoint
As we store and collaborate on documents in SharePoint, there is a need to store comments and quick notes on those documents. I have had a few folks reach out to me lately with this requirement, so I...
View Article3 ways to replicate SharePoint pages from a page template
One thing I particularly like about SharePoint and most Microsoft products is that there are multiple ways to do the same thing. The ability to copy or replicate SharePoint pages is no exception. There...
View ArticleHow to create a Lookup column in SharePoint
Though I am a huge advocate of metadata, one column type that I have never blogged about previously is the Lookup column in SharePoint. The reason for this is that it is a unique type of column you...
View ArticleHow to move and copy documents in SharePoint and OneDrive
One of my favorite features of the modern document library in SharePoint Online is the ability to move and copy documents across sites. This was not possible in the old (classic) document library and...
View ArticleHow to import an Excel spreadsheet to a SharePoint custom list
Importing Excel to SharePoint has always been somewhat of a matzo ball. We had a few options available, but each one came with a long list of quirks that made the whole process and result less than...
View ArticleHow to create a custom list in SharePoint by copying an existing custom list
We always had various ways to create custom lists in SharePoint: we could create one manually, import from Excel, and we could also create one a custom list by copying an existing list. That last...
View ArticleHow to hide a field in SharePoint lists and libraries with the conditional...
Working with SharePoint reminds me of watching James Bond movies – you think you have seen them all and know all the cool spy gadgets, yet, a new movie comes out, and there is a set of the new tricks...
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