Kelly LaForest

I personally think that search in Outlook is pretty damn good. I usually find what I’m looking for 95% of the time (the other 5% is because the email was archived, deleted long ago, or was a figment of my imagination). Once I spot the email in a list of search results, I often wonder “now …

I use this blog to act as a repository of useful technology tips and tricks – not only for you, but for myself. If I don’t use a trick every day I tend to forget the steps and find myself straining to remember and end up wasting a bunch of time on Google looking for …

I use Quick Notes in OneNote every single day via the Send to OneNote feature to jot down bits of information that I don’t want to misplace or accidentally close without saving (i.e. the great Notepad disaster of September 2013). Up until recently I thought there was no way to “convert” a Quick Note to a Page …

I like to wax poetic on the benefits of creating a SharePoint site map using Smart Art in Microsoft Office. Users like colourful, visually appealing diagrams especially when they are interactive (such as graphics with clickable hotspots created with a tool like Image-Maps – check out my instructions here!) I recently shared this information with a client without providing …

A client called today to ask: is there an easy way to convert multiple Excel files to the new file format at once (xlsx > xls). The answer is: Yes. Now before you start clicking links, be prudent and ask yourself – do you really need to invest a chunk of time to convert every file …

The standard page layout for a Word document is portrait (i.e. vertical) in orientation. Roughly once every couple months I need to insert one or two landscape pages (ie. pages that are horizontal  in orientation) into a Word document – usually to insert a large screenshot or a table with lots of columns. I always forget how to do this and end …

Today I gave a demo to a client who wanted to see how we use SharePoint blogs at itgroove to replace email correspondence with searchable, chronological knowledge repository. Part of the demo included how SharePoint-phonic users can create and publish blog posts to a SharePoint blog directly from Microsoft Word. As an avid SharePoint user, …

Today a client who agreed to act as a reference to Microsoft for a project we worked on together. Microsoft asked me to make sure the client’s email Spam filter did not block their Reference email. Since editing Junk Email Options is not covered in email 101, here are the six steps to adding an email address to …

A client wanted to know: “If you store an Excel file in a document library (via Office 365 SharePoint Online), can multiple people open and view/edit data in a worksheet at the same time, and will updates appear in “real” time?” I knew the ability to collaborate has been available since Excel 2010, but the answer …