Rapid Creation and Renaming of SharePoint Lists SharePoint, be it Office 365 or On-Premise, allows rapid creation of lists. Within few clicks, you have a nice container for documents or structure data. Occasionally, you need to rename those lists at a later time. Good news;… Read More »How to Rename SharePoint Lists
Excel Makes Data Analytics Accessible Office 365 and SharePoint are awesome for working with structured data. All the data is at your finger tips. You just need a web browser to view and edit to your heart’s content. There are times you may need to tap… Read More »How to Export SharePoint Data to Excel
Target Audience: End Users Let’s talk about SharePoint adoption for a minute. What is the number one reason that slows down the deployment of a company-wide SharePoint system? File migration! We have a couple of neat document management tricks to help address this very issue.… Read More »SharePoint Tips: Managing Multiple Files with Windows Explorer
How to Access SharePoint Content Offline The most common way of interacting with SharePoint content is to access SharePoint from a browser. But what happens when you don’t have internet access? Let’s say you are on a plane without WiFi and you want to keep… Read More »SharePoint Tips: Accessing Content Offline
Target Audience: End Users In the good old days (or even present days without SharePoint), your boss assigned you tasks via email, and then you would update your superiors via more email messages. That was a great hassle, wasn’t it? Email is unstructured data and extracting any… Read More »SharePoint Tips: Creating Alerts for Tasks & Project Tasks
Subtle Differences Between OneDrive and OneDrive for Business OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud consumer-oriented storage service, comes pre-installed in most modern Windows systems. As a SharePoint user, you may also notice a button named “OneDrive” in System Tray. Are there any differences between OneDrive and OneDrive for… Read More »OneDrive vs OneDrive for Business: Sibling Rivalry?
Target Audience: End Users You are about to hold an impromptu meeting and have a PowerPoint presentation to share with your external partners. What is the simplest, no-fuss way to get this party started? The Present Online feature in PowerPoint 2013 is your best friend! The service… Read More »PowerPoint 2013 Tips: Starting an Online PowerPoint Presentation within Seconds
Target Audience: End Users The SharePoint 2010 version of this tip pertains to SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2013, we are blessed with much enhanced cross-platform and cross-browser capabilities. The Multiple File Upload functionality is a prime example. As documented in the previous version of this… Read More »SharePoint 2013 Tips: Uploading Multiple Files with Drag-and-Drop
Target Audience: Site Administrators & End Users Have you ever wondered how best to use metadata that you are so diligently tagging in all those SharePoint Document Libraries? I will let you in on a little known secret; you can embed metadata within Microsoft Office… Read More »SharePoint Tips: Embed Metadata in Microsoft Office Suite
Target Audience: Site Administrators It is a good practice to employ a dedicated content database for each site collection. When you create a new site collection in SharePoint 2010, there is however no easy way to indicate which content database to use. There are at… Read More »SharePoint Tips: New Site Collection & New Content Database