Category: SharePoint Blank

Bamboo Solutions is a leading provider of Web Parts and Solution Accelerators for Microsoft SharePoint. In SharePoint Blank, a new employee (and a blank slate with regards to SharePoint) candidly blogs his day-to-day SharePoint learning, sharing his trials and triumphs.

Web Edit in SharePoint 2010, Part 3: Working with Text (1 of 3) – Edit Tools

by John Anderson | Jun 2, 2010 | SharePoint Blank

When last we spoke, I provided a tour through the out-of-the-box Picture Tools for editing images in SharePoint 2010 (via the contextual Ribbon), so the natural next stop on the tour seemed to me to be the text-editing equivalent of those tools. As noted previously,...

Web Edit in SharePoint 2010, Part 2: Working with Pictures

by John Anderson | May 28, 2010 | SharePoint Blank

In my last post, I detailed the process of how to insert a picture in SharePoint 2010, but now that we’ve got a new picture in place, what if we want to make some changes to it? Once again, the contextual Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 is your friend, making the...

Web Edit in SharePoint 2010, Part 1: How to Insert a Picture

by John Anderson | May 17, 2010 | SharePoint Blank

Longtime readers are already aware that one of my favorite new features in SharePoint 2010 is the Web edit functionality which allows for inline editing of a page using a WYSIWYG editor. Oh, and let’s not forget to mention that the WYSIWYG editor comes in the...

Welcome to Your (SharePoint 2010) Site!

by John Anderson | May 13, 2010 | SharePoint Blank

There’s been a lot of talk, and no small amount of anticipation, over the past year-plus leading up to the release of SharePoint 2010. Yesterday, the big day finally arrived, and while I had hopes of covering the “virtual keynote” event for our 2010...

How to Create a New Alert in SharePoint

by John Anderson | Apr 7, 2010 | SharePoint Blank

After the painful lesson I recently learned on the consequences of not setting up SharePoint alerts, I promised to return in a few days with a blog detailing the steps involved in the creation of a new alert in SharePoint. As I prepare for virtual back-to-back trips...

The Importance of (Remembering to Set Up) Alerts in SharePoint

by John Anderson | Mar 31, 2010 | SharePoint Blank

I think I might need to set up an alert to remind me to set up alerts… I’ve written in the past about the usefulness of SharePoint alerts, and I’ve used alerts to great effect in the past, but here’s the thing: an alert only works if you...