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With the new modern SharePoint experience, you will experience image flexibility like never before. Unfortunately, many users like you are confused about how sizing and scaling works in SharePoint. Are there idea image sizes for the different web parts in SharePoint Online? Or do you have to use the same image size with all the web parts and leave the crop magic to SharePoint? Is there a way to resize the images within SharePoint? If those are your questions, you’ll definitely love this article. You can treat it as a one-stop reference for SharePoint modern pages image sizing and scaling. […]

You feel limited by the number of default themes that SharePoint offers. Yes, they may be attractive (built-in) themes, but that’s all there is to it. You’re stuck with what’s available to you. Fortunately, you can now create your own custom theme with the help of the theme generator tool and install it on your site. The question now is, how do you use the tool? What to do then? How do you deploy that new custom theme that you built using the theme generator? In this article, you will learn the answers to those questions above in a step-by-step

Your SharePoint file won’t open because it’s locked? In this guide, I’ll show you how to identify which type of lock you’re facing and unlock it based on your role. Let’s get started. File Locks in SharePoint Online Before you can fix a locked file, you need to understand what kind of lock you’re dealing with. SharePoint has three distinct types, and each requires a different approach. What Does a “Locked File” Actually Mean? When someone says “the file is locked,” they’re describing a symptom, not a specific problem. Think of it like a car that won’t start. It could

The ability for your users to add metadata to the documents and files in a list or library is truly beneficial. With the use of other features like lookup columns and search filters, you’ll be able to find things a lot faster. Unfortunately, there’s only so much you can do to ensure that they enter the correct information. On the bright side, you can at least minimize the errors by setting up validation on the data with Excel-like formulas. In this article, let’s discuss column and list validation in SharePoint and what you have to do to set them up.

If you have plenty of lists and libraries on one of your sites, then you may have wondered at some point if there was a way for you to show some columns from one list or library to another. With a lookup column, that’s certainly possible. In this article, I’ll show you how to easily create one on your SharePoint site. Note that although the use case for this feature is incredible, it comes with some limitations too. Let’s get started! What is a lookup column? The simplest explanation is that a lookup column is a special type of column

If you’re a long-time user of SharePoint, then you must have stumbled upon calculated columns in a list or document library. You must have seen it on some site and you’re probably wondering how to implement it to your as well. The cool thing here is that the steps you need to take are quite the same, whether you’re using the classic or modern experience of SharePoint. In this article, I’ll show you what a calculated column in SharePoint can do and how you can implement it yourself in only a few steps. Let’s get started! What do you need

It is often a problem for SharePoint users when the number of their items in their library hits the 5,000-mark. If you have experienced this and you’re worried that you can’t access or find your files anymore, you have come to the right place. In this article, you will learn more about what exactly triggers this issue, how you can possibly prevent it in the future, and what you can do to fix it. Let’s get started! The Truth About the SharePoint 5,000 Item Limit Threshold A lot of people have the misconception that a SharePoint list or library can’t

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform from Microsoft that can be used to store and share content with others. Users can manage, collaborate, and access documents and other resources simultaneously. This platform has existed for two decades, but the modern experience was only introduced in 2016. Classic SharePoint is the legacy framework. A lot of organizations still use the old one, though because of the introduction of the new experience and Microsoft’s clear intention of focusing on it, a lot of people have been transforming old sites into modern equivalents. Modern SharePoint, on the other hand, visibly looks better and

It has been a while since Microsoft released modern pages for SharePoint. Since most people still use the older, classic sites, not everyone knows how to create a SharePoint modern site using PnP PowerShell. Fortunately, it is not really that complicated. By following this tutorial, you can be done in only a few minutes. There is no need to worry about the code since all you have to do is copy and paste them. Let’s start! What is a modern site in SharePoint? As its name suggests, a modern site in SharePoint is a complete design overhaul of how classic

There are three migration tools you can use with SharePoint, each has its own purpose. The first one, the so-called “migration manager”, enables you to copy on-premises files to Microsoft 365. The other one is to copy from the SharePoint server. One of the most recent additions to this is the Mover migration tool, which will enable you to copy content from other cloud services to Microsoft 365. If you need to migrate your files from Google Drive and Dropbox to SharePoint Online or Office 365, this is what you need to use. Let’s explore the Mover tool much further…