SharePoint Administrator Roles demystified
Do you have the lucky job of maintaining SharePoint in your organization? If that is the case, you probably ran into mysterious user roles and names like Company Administrator and…
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3 reasons you need File Type metadata column in a document library
Your SharePoint Document library might contain lots of different files. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, CAD or Photoshop ones. What if you wanted to filter and quickly find only files with…
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How to embed PowerPoint slides into a list item
Did you know that you could embed the PowerPoint slide deck into the body of a SharePoint list? Say, for example, you have an Announcement list on your SharePoint Intranet. And…
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4 ways to link to Intranet Homepage in SharePoint
Do you feel homesick when you collaborate with your colleagues in SharePoint? Let’s be honest, no matter which department or team site you work on, you want to click on…
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Shall I create a List Column or Site Column?
One of the first decisions you have to make when you create metadata is whether you will be creating it at the list/library level or the site level. In case…
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3 ways to create FAQ Knowledge Base in SharePoint
Though for the most part, you might use SharePoint to store documents and other types of files, at some point you will discover that SharePoint is also great for storing…
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6 ways to save files to SharePoint
I had an interesting and trivial question being asked the other day by one of my clients. “How do I save files to SharePoint?” I almost responded, “You must be…
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Newsfeed or Discussion Board?
If you were to ask me this question a few years ago, I would probably give you a spiel about pros and cons of each and recommend one based on…
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2 ways to add a Border around Web Parts
Sometimes there might be a need to add a border around SharePoint Web Part on a page. This could be due to specific visual or aesthetics requirements. I recently had…
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2 reasons why you cannot Save Site as template in SharePoint
So you created your beautiful team site and are now ready to save it as a template and replicate on few other department or project sites. You go to Gear Icon…
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