Do you want to prevent people from downloading a copy of a document or spreadsheet from SharePoint? I’ve shown you previously how to hide the Download to Excel button in the ribbon. This is the next step in the evolution of keeping your users dialed back. Hover over any document or spreadsheet for an elipsis […]

Today I was asked to remove the left-hand navigation on the New Item form for a list in Office365. The form was opening in full-page mode, rather than the “modal dialog” format (aka “LightBox”) and was showing the site navigation on the left. The site owner did not want this. This should also work on […]

Previously, I wrote about how to adjust the column width of a list in SharePoint 2010. However, none of that advice works in SharePoint Online. There is a ton of crazy information out on the web and most all of it is useless. I found this one suggestion by Vadivelu B. on a Microsoft forum to be just […]

SharePoint offers the basic feature of importing a spreadsheet which will then become a brand new list. If any updates are made to the spreadsheet, you will either have to: manually key in the updates to the list -or- copy and paste the updates to the list using the DataSheet View or QuickEdit (depending on […]

There is now a “starter kit” available for your Office 365 SharePoint tenant (aka SharePoint Online or “SPO”). It’s not just a site template but rather, it’s an entire solution featuring Modern page templates (not Classic), 17 custom web parts, 7 SharePoint framework extensions, and several other components – all customizable and ready-to-go.  Plus, it’s […]

I have a user who doesn’t want to make edits in the SharePoint list.  He exports the list to Excel, makes his edits there, and then forces others to manually update the list with his edits.  No more. I tried using F12 and writing CSS code to do the trick but it wasn’t working.  As usual, […]

The Audit Log in Office 365 is disabled, by default, presumably to save disk space. To enable the audit log in your tenant, in the Office 365 Admin Portal browse to the Security & Compliance Admin Center -> Search & investigation -> Audit log search. Click Start recording user and admin activities then click Turn On. Or you […]

To edit a page in SharePoint 2013 that does not have Edit Page menu option available (pictured above), such as the Access Requests page, append the following bold text to the url (start with and include the ?): http://SharePoint/sites/YourSite/Access%20Requests/pendingreq.aspx?ToolPaneView=2 For my little task, I actually used the following url: http://SharePoint/sites/YourSite/Access%20Requests/pendingreq.aspx?ToolPaneView=2&pageview=personal I added the part about […]

For you Office 365 subscribers, as of today, the Azure Active Directory version 2 PowerShell module can be downloaded from the below site which also contains a full list of the cmdlets available. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azuread/v2/azureactivedirectory  

I encountered the following error today in our SharePoint 2013 environment while simply trying to move a web part to another web part zone: A Web Part you attempted to change is either invalid or has been removed by another user Of course, I went to Google first and found several articles on the subject, […]