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Word for Mac: markup turned on by default
I've recently had problems when saving Word docs as PDFs on my Mac (using the Word process, not the built-in Mac process): the PDFs have included the comments markup in a column on the right. After a big of digging around it seems that Word now turns on the mark-up by default in some recent Mac builds. Even after I amended the Normal.dotm template so that markup was turned off, new documents still have the markup enabled. Has anybody else come across this? It means that whenever we export to PDF, 3 extra mouseclicks are required if we want to ensure that the comments pane isn't included. And even after we've done this, if we re-open the same document, mark-up has been turned back on. There doesn't seem to be any way of changing this behaviour."Format picture" has disappeared from Outlook Mac
I use the Outlook app on 3 different MacBooks. Two have recently auto-updated Outlook to version 16.102.2, and I've lost the ability to format a picture in the body of an email. I use lots of screenshots in emails, and always put a border around them to clearly differentiate them from the body text. Right-click the image and select Format Picture from the menu. I can still do it in the third MacBook which is running Outlook version 16.84.2. I don't know if the latest update is meant to be an improvement, but I'm not happy about it! I'll turn off automate updates for the third MacBook. Not sure if I can revert the other two to version 16.84.2 - does anybody know if this is possible. Also wonder if users of the Windows app have experienced the same loss of the Format Picture feature?Sharepoint term store interface is frustrating for large termsets
We have a termset in our term store containing a few hundred entries. I'm doing some housekeeping - deprecating some terms, renaming others - but the user interface makes it very difficult. By default, the termset seems to only display the first 40 or so entries, alphabetically. I have to click 'load more' to see the next batch of entries. When I edit one of the later entries and save the change, I'm always taken back to the first 40 entries. So I have to click 'load more' then scroll down to get back to where I was. Make another change. Get taken back to the start of the list. Repeat. It's hugely frustrating. I don't know if this is expected behaviour - in which case it's poor usability - or if there's a setting I can customise to change the behaviour. Any advice?Imported term sets, and renaming a term set
I created a term set consisting of around 450 entries, by importing from a CSV. I've now been asked to add another 100+ terms to the set. I've just read that we can only import a term set once - that there's no way of re-importing into the existing term set. I'd like to avoid adding the new terms manually! If I create a whole new term set so I can import all 550 terms from scratch, would I have to manually update all the site columns which reference the termset? Or could I rename the two termsets - give the original one a random name, then rename the new one so it has the same name as the original one?Can we force Sharepoint doc links to open in new tab? Links are in dynamic lists generated via HCWP
We're creating a modern Sharepoint team site to store a few hundred documents. Each page covers a specific topic/theme, and our documents are tagged with the corresponding topic/theme using managed metadata. I've added a highlighted content web part to each page of the site to display filtered lists of relevant documents. So far so good. My manager would like the links in the dynamic lists to open in a new browser tab. I can't find a way of achieving this. CoPilot said I could add a ScriptEditor web part to each page and paste a bit of code into it, then immediately contradicted itself. ChatGPT says there's no out-of-the-box solution but suggested various workarounds that either involve PowerShell or the Sharepoint Framework (SPFx). We have no in-house technical knowledge of either. Does anybody know if there's a fairly simple non-technical way of managing how links behave? I read that it's possible in a QuickLinks web part, but I think we have to use HCWP to generate these lists.Re: comments get lost - move tasks
We just had the same problem, and have inadvertently lost hundreds of comments. Microsoft's support resources unhelpfully only explain what happens to tasks that are copied rather than moved - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/copy-and-move-planner-tasks-ad43a5d8-c1ad-42fd-b3da-fe97d72c8a1b#bkmk_whatdowecopyPinned channels: no breadcrumb trail to quickly go to the parent Team?
When we go to a pinned channel, there's no quick way of going 'up' a level to the parent Team's 'general channel'. I'd expect the team icon at the top left of the pinned channel to be a hyperlink. Is anybody else frustrated by this lack of functionality.Re: Outlook group calendar linking with teams channel?
LeonPavesic This used to work - I've done it successfully in the past. But I can no longer capture a URL for a group calendar. The instructions in the previous post don't reflect what currently happens in OWA. I can capture a URL for a group mailbox, but not for a group calendar. When I switch from the group mailbox to the calendar, the URL changes completely to this very generic one: https://outlook.office365.com/calendar/view/month Has anybody else come across the same issue? I see that Microsoft are working on a 'New Groups' experience - I wonder if this is relevant to the problem?Viewing Form results via Teams
In the 'New Teams' app I can create a channel tab for an existing MS Form, and select the option to "show results". This allows everybody in a team to review the form submissions. But unless I'm missing something, there's no option to view the results in Excel. Teams only shows a stylised summary of the responses via pie charts etc. We have to log into Forms in a web browser in order to get the Excel results. But there's no direct link in the Teams view to the Forms version. So each member of the team would have to manually switch to a browser, log into Forms, then look for the form in question. Not exactly a seamless experience. I wonder if it was easier/better in 'Classic Teams.' I often switch back to Classic Teams to test this sort of thing, but Microsoft have literally just automatically uninstalled Classic Teams from my Mac - it disappeared a couple of hours agoRe: New Teams Won't Load Website Tab
ezybao I've just had a similar problem trying to add a website tab that displays a list of group forms, using the URL I'd captured from the Forms page. In Classic Teams it works perfectly - when the Forms page loads in the tab, the login/authentication process kicks in and can be completed, allowing the Forms to be displayed. In New Teams, the locin/authentication process simply doesn't work. The only option is to click the link to open the Forms page in a web browser. Seems this is a deliberate feature in New Teams - Microsoft 'announced' it earlier this year (but it passed me by): https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/teams-retires-client-ability-to-load-websites-from-channel-tabs/m-p/4036930How can a Mac user mark an outgoing email as 'private'?
As a Mac user, I've never been able to mark an outgoing email as 'private'. I was hoping that 'New Outlook' would resolve this, but unless I'm missing something, it's still not available. I can't even find a way of doing it in OWA. Can anybody advise, please? (Sensitivity labels aren't an option, as we haven't configured them in our tenant.)
