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I ran into a unique challenge on a recent project related to the use of the Quick Launch.

One of the problems with a busy calendar in SharePoint is that the wrapper around the calendar takes up so much space. In this quick screencast, I’ll show you how to reclaim, not only the Quick Launch space, but the heading and title space, too.

Information Architecture (IA) is an important concept for End Users of SharePoint. End Users who have been asked to manage sites usually do not have any formal training in how to manage or classify large amounts of documents or how to structure information so that it can be easily accessed and managed..
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The question of the day comes from Matt in Massachusetts:
I have been rearranging items into different headings on the Quick  Launch. My Lists heading now has 1 list and 2 document libraries under it.  But, when I click on the Lists heading, only the List items appear.  Obviously, a similar problem occurs when I click [...]

Bob Fox is moving his blog to another location, so I was flipping through the archive section on his old site when I ran across a screencast called SP Administrators Desktop Shortcuts. Really simple, easy stuff: add an application to your environment variable path, create your own toolbar to point to applications on your harddrive… Stop right [...]

For the workshops I’m delivering this week, I have created a sandbox environment so each participant can crash and burn at my expense instead of on their production server. I display their site in the Quick Launch bar so they can have easy access.
As we got started tonight, one of the students pointed out that [...]