The ask, combine PowerPoint slide Transitions and sequenced Animations to create a follow-along focus effect. Simply, the asking trainer wants something unique added to their presentation. So, for today's steps, darken the slide with a transparent rectangle, introduce an oval, then combine the two shapes into a freeform shape and animate that shape along several … Continue reading PowerPoint: Animations + Transitions | Map Highlighting
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PowerPoint: Animations + Animations | Gear Shifting
The ask, help a trainer add some animations to their presentation. Following the Power Platform Community Conference, the keynote's main takeaway was that "Low-code (as we know it) is dead," highlighting that low-code is shifting into another gear. Taking that as inspiration, the trainer wants to animate an element shifting between gears: Figure 1 - … Continue reading PowerPoint: Animations + Animations | Gear Shifting
Power Automate + SharePoint Online: Get Items | Lookup Column Threshold Error
The ask, correct a failing Power Automate cloud flow. For months, this flow ran daily, without issue, querying a growing SharePoint Online list, but now, the Get Items action is failing and throwing an error: "The query cannot be completed because the number of lookup columns it contains exceeds the lookup column threshold." Figure 1 … Continue reading Power Automate + SharePoint Online: Get Items | Lookup Column Threshold Error
PowerPoint: Morph + Highlight
The ask, figure out a way to "highlight" PowerPoint slide elements. A technical trainer, in their more content-heavy sessions, would like to "highlight" lines of code. The suggestion today, use the Morph transition in PowerPoint, but instead of using morph to zoom, add transparent rectangles to "highlight" code snippets. Figure 1 - PowerPoint presentation with … Continue reading PowerPoint: Morph + Highlight
PowerPoint: Morph + Transitions
The ask, add some animation to a technical trainer's PowerPoint deck. Their content is solid, but they're looking for help drawing attendee attention to specific elements of their presentation. The recommendation, add morph transitions to a few of their slides: Figure 1 - PowerPoint slides with morph transitions. An often-overlooked feature of PowerPoint, Morph is … Continue reading PowerPoint: Morph + Transitions
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Data Readiness | SharePoint Online
The ask, evaluate and audit the SharePoint Online (SPO) environment before the Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout, Microsoft's artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for the M365 apps. The top-most concern of the business leaders is whether or not their content is permissioned properly. Though, a security audit could easily help identify SPO sites with lax sharing and/ … Continue reading Microsoft 365 Copilot: Data Readiness | SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online: Add Shortcut to OneDrive | Explained
There are essentially two content sync options in SharePoint Online (SPO). Traditional Sync, which is pretty straight-forward, and Add shortcut to OneDrive, which is a bit more confusing for some. Because the shortcut button is stand-alone and it doesn't explicitly say "sync," it does something completely different, right? Figure 1 - SharePoint Online document library … Continue reading SharePoint Online: Add Shortcut to OneDrive | Explained
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