Kelly LaForest

I recently did a coaching session for a new staff member at HeroWork on general Office 365 101 and how to use the Office 365 Admin Console. The perfectionist inner critic that lives in my head was shocked to hear the positive feedback I received afterward. I always feel like I know nothing because there …

The managing consultant at itgroove, Alec McCauley, shared this handy link in the itgroove Yammer Network this weekend. I know I’ll be wanting to reference it in the future to help friends, family, and clients with sorting out if they are using the new or previous OneDrive for Business sync client.   Why do I care …

**** [NOTE: Two updates have been made to the middle and bottom of this post to help readers resolve their issue faster. We are helping many people resolve their smiley face symbol autocorrects to square] **** A client recently came across an odd situation and I thought I’d share some ideas for solutions if this …

I’ve been using the new modern SharePoint library experience in Microsoft SharePoint Online for some time now. However every now and then I stumble across a button I haven’t used before in this new experience. These are not new buttons… I haven’t found a reason to use the function until I seek them out. For example, I was …

Last night I was using Yammer when * BAM * – a change to the Yammer user interface caught my eye. This little popup appeared in the bottom right hand corner… see: The pop-up persisted and I didn’t want it to disappear without understanding what had changed so I was compelled to explore the new layout at …

Goodbye 2016. Hello 2017! A new year means its time to come up with a new set of goals. But first, a moment to reflect back on some big moments for me – both personal and professional – in 2016. Personal Accomplishments: August 2016 – Got engaged! My boyfriend of five years, Rick LaForest, popped the …

When you’ve been working with SharePoint for a number of years, some tips and tricks become ingrained and second-nature. I was reminded of one example at a coaching session this week: We are working with a client that is transitioning to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online from Dropbox for storing files. Some staff wanted …

A key reason I would always use OneNote 2016 is the ability to be logged in to multiple accounts at once. I discovered you could not use multiple accounts in the OneNote Windows 10 App in late 2016 when preparing for a presentation and had setup a new Microsoft account ([email protected]) to show the entire process of getting …

Discovered something neat that I didn’t know before when re-opening a stack of Notebooks in OneNote 2016 that I had opened before, but closed a couple months ago when delivering a demo (and never got around to reopening). Did you know that OneNote 2016 remembers the Display Name and Notebook colour you setup in the Notebook properties? Neat! For …