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Remember back in SharePoint 2003 and 2007? Probably not. I barely remember it, and had to search the internet just to find an old screenshot because I didn’t even start blogging until SharePoint 2007. There was something, at least one thing nice about those old versions. The document library and list descriptions actually showed right there at the top of
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Have you ever wanted to have a nice pretty button, right on the row of one of your list or library items in SharePoint, and that button does something custom? Out of box, there’s a column called “Edit”, and you can add that to your view, and it gives you a quick way to get to the edit page with
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Promoted Links list in SharePoint are very popular, and I see a lot of customers creating them in many places in their sites, giving each page a nice, modern appearance with pretty clickable tiles. In this post, I’ll show you a way I’ve devised to keep them organized and managed in one list for a site, so that they can
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If you are in the first release cycle for Office 365, you may have noticed something very different about your document libraries within the past week. Not only are document libraries getting a whole new look…. they way that you work with your files has been drastically improved! Let’s take a look around! First of all, when I click the
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One of the most common questions I’ve ever gotten in my ten years using SharePoint is: “How can I set a certain permission on a specific view or column (field)?” In this blog post, I will start with a couple of very simple ways to do this, which can easily ramp up to some more fancy / tricky ways. This
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In all versions of SharePoint and Office 365, the Excel Web Access web part has been around for years. It is part of the enterprise version of these products. Web part connections can be created on pages in SharePoint, to send information between web parts. The requirement in this scenario is that a department has a bunch of spreadsheets in
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In SharePoint 2013 and Office 365, there are a couple of pretty useful new web part properties that I would like to point out. When inserting an “app part” on a page (a list or library web part), there is a Miscellaneous section in the web part property toolpane. Insert a list or library (app) as a web part on
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