Kelly LaForest

Co-authored by Kelly Marshall and Sean Wallbridge, SharePoint MVP How can you not love OneNote? We do! It’s a free download and works across every device and operating system that matters to us (i.e. everything except Blackberry). Sean loves that he can relax on the couch and use his iPad to jot down ideas into …

Co-authored by Kelly Marshall and Sean Wallbridge, SharePoint MVP There are a few key OneNote pointers we cover whenever we deliver an orientation to a new hire. We’ve had several new hires recently so we’re self-proclaimed professionals at rocking the Microsoft OneNote orientation now. OneNote “noobs” are grateful for these basic suggestions as it can be daunting …

Co-authored by Kelly Marshall and Sean Wallbridge, SharePoint MVP First rule of working in OneNote is: you do not talk about… Yeah right! We can’t shut up about OneNote. If you’re looking to join the OneNote club, the first thing you need to do is decide where to store your Notebook. And for collaboration’s sake …

UPDATE – 7/27/2016: Wow, time flies…. two years later, I loop back around and get down to answering the questions I asked in this original post. Here’s a link to the answers you seek: The Functionality Limits of Paragraph Links in Microsoft OneNote -KM  * Creating links to notebooks, sections, section groups and pages in Microsoft …

Back on April 22, 2014 I announced the creation of a New Community Group – Victoria Office 365 User Group on this blog. As the Co-Founder and Co-Organizer, I was really excited to have the opportunity to speak about one of my favourites topics at the first event – Microsoft OneNote! “These are a Few of …

I received the following screenshot from a client the other day. They had recently migrated their intranet to SharePoint Online in Office 365, and expressed concern over the following warning message that popped up when they were working in a list: This warning message led the end user to conclude that the ability to perform bulk edits to …

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 …

In my “How OneNote Notebook Files (and Folders) Work” blog post, I shared some screenshots to clarify how OneNote uses folders and files to manage the data. I also took a moment to ponder why OneNote Notebooks stored and synced to locations in SharePoint site either on-premise and online in Office 365 appeared to only use files. The folders appeared …

Assigning tasks to others from within OneNote enables a user to quickly delegate without having to open Outlook or toggle between the programs. OneNote opens a window so you can create a new task directly from within Outlook. Instructions: Type out task in OneNote on a page. Use Outlook Tasks to create a Custom Task You will see …