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How to Turn on the Favourites Bar in Edge
When I first starting using Microsoft Edge “full time” two weeks ago, I was surprised to not see a few familiar buttons that I use every day in Internet Explorer, including: Home button – answered here Favourites bar Tools bar – answered here Curiosity and a desire to not revert back to my old ways …
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When I first starting using Microsoft Edge “full time” two weeks ago, I was surprised to not see a few familiar buttons that I use every day in Internet Explorer, including: Home button Favourites bar – answered here Tools bar – answered here Curiosity and a desire to not revert back to my old ways …
Read onEmail Notifications from OneNote
So there are a few confused (and slightly frustrated) folks in my office today. “X Notebook was updated by X Person” email notifications started arriving without warning. What’s interesting is the notifications are not arriving for every Notebook, and are not arriving in “real time”. I started noticing when received a few email notifications about changes to …
Read onConverter Tool in Windows Calculator
I discovered a really simple, but super helpful tip recently while attending a Victoria App Developer User Group meetup, run by my friend and Microsoft MVP for Windows Platform Development, Jan Hannemann. He had fellow Microsoft MVP for Windows Platform Development Mark Schramm over from the mainland to present on Adaptive UI in UWP. Mark did a stellar …
Read onHow to See Your OneDrive for Business Storage Usage
What: Before I installed the “next generation” sync client, I wanted to see how much of my storage allotment I was using in my OneDrive for Business site collection. I expected to see the information somewhere in the OneDrive for Business usage interface, but no luck. I did some light research and discovered: The first …
Read onHow to Forget a Wi-Fi Network in Windows 10
Well that wasn’t obvious. I was struggling last night as my Surface Pro 3 would not connect to the internet. I went through the troubleshooting checklist I’ve compiled from advice from various colleagues at itgroove: Disconnect Surface from Wi-Fi network. Reconnect. (No luck.) Turn off Wi-Fi. Turn it back on again. (No luck.) Restart machine. (No luck.) Hard shut …
Read onKeyboard Shortcut to Quickly Archive Batches of Emails in Outlook Webmail
Archive batches of emails in Outlook Webmail can be time consuming as there is a threshold to the number of emails you can archive at one time. Fortunately Microsoft gives us a keyboard shortcut so you can click and press your way to inbox zero! Introducing my new favourite Keyboard Shortcut in Outlook Webmail: If …
Read onHow to Make “Hidden Files” with No Checked in Version Visible in a SharePoint Library
In a SharePoint Library that has “Required Check Out” turned on in the Library’s Versioning Settings, there is a risk that brand new files that are uploaded to the library will be hidden from other people’s view. The user who uploads the file has to know that they need to check in the file to …
Read onHow to Retrieve Emails in an Outlook Folder Stored on Server
How to fix the “There are more items in this folder on the server” issue in a folder in Outlook 2016 and get access to your emails. What: Certain folders would give me the following message: “There are more items in this folder on the server“. There was no link or button (that I could …
Read onMy Top Takeaways from Microsoft’s “The Future of SharePoint” Event
After attending Microsoft’s “The Future of SharePoint” Event last week, I needed a few days to process all the exciting announcements they shared with us. Although I could certainly write a short novella of everything they discussed, I’ve decided to organize my first impressions into a bullet point list. I also decided to only focus on announcements …
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