SharePoint Articles

SharePoint – Site Pages trick to convert Pages to News Posts and News Posts to Pages

I needed a way to change a SharePoint Page to a News Post – and also a News Post back to a Page. This column formatting enabled me to do that. See how this is done…

How to Fix the “List” Issue in PowerBI when Using SharePoint People Picker Fields

Sep 1, 2023 | Office 365, Power BI, SharePoint

Have you connected a SharePoint list to Power BI but only see the word List or Record in the column fields? Here’s how to expand that cell to display the content from SharePoint list that you want to see. This is especially useful when you want to display a Person’s name from a People Picker field in SharePoint.

SharePoint – convert a News Post back to a standard Page

Jun 24, 2023 | Office 365, SharePoint

Solved: How to demote a SharePoint News Post back to a standard SharePoint Page! This will stop those pages appearing in News Feeds and news post webparts.

Sharepoint Modern – How to add a Picture Library

Feb 1, 2022 | Office 365, SharePoint

Here’s my guide on how to add a Picture Library displaying Thumbnails to SharePoint Modern.

How to fix: SharePoint opens an extra Browser Tab when opening a Link in the Quick Launch

Mar 4, 2021 | Office 365, SharePoint

Do you have SharePoint Quick Launch links that open the link correctly in the current tab but also open a new blank Untitled browser tab? For some reason we are seeing this happen a lot on our sites. Here’s an easy fix.