Kelly LaForest

Microsoft Office 365 blog by a OneNote MVP.

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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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How to Turn on the Home Button 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 Favourites bar – answered here Tools bar – answered here Curiosity and a desire to not revert back to my old ways …

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Email 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 …

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Converter 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 …

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How 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 …

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How 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 …

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How 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 …

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My 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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