We recently got a new long-awaited feature in SharePoint – the ability to copy a Document Library from an existing library!

Given the effort required to set up metadata and custom views, it was a very burdensome task to set up multiple document libraries that had the same configuration.

But now we can copy an existing Document Library with the click of a button in SharePoint Online.

This one has been a long time coming! After many requests from customers and countless workarounds, I’m super excited that the ability to favourite files and folders in SharePoint and OneDrive is now available. Whether it’s a personal working file in your OneDrive or a shared document in a SharePoint library, you can now “favourite” files to easily access them in one place.

As I’ve covered in previous blogs, using metadata is a great way to organise your documents, make them easy and intuitive to find and enable a single source of truth.

However, setting up metadata requires you to predefine your columns and values into lists of categories, which is quite tricky to do, especially if you are just starting out and are new to the whole concept.

There is however an easy, less invasive way to start out with metadata in your business – Enterprise Key Words.

In the past, in order to colour code a calendar in SharePoint, you had to use calendar overlays, which allowed you to merge multiple calendars or multiple views into one calendar view. It was quite time consuming to set up and only allowed a maximum of 10 overlays, which can be limiting.

However, it can now be accomplished in an easier and better way by using view formatting!

Do you have data that needs to be kept for a certain period of time? Or do you want to ensure that data isn’t accidentally deleted? As you start moving your documents into SharePoint, you can take the guess work out of data retention with Microsoft’s in-built data retention policies.

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