Creating a table of contents
When I have a long page in SharePoint 2016, I like to add a summary table of contents at the top to enable visitors to quickly jump to the section they need. Unlike Confluence, there …
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Adding SharePoint Wiki Hyperlink Anchors
I’ve been spoiled by several years of working with Atlassian’s Confluence wiki. So it was a shock to the system to change jobs and be introduced to the Microsoft SharePoint version of a wiki. Seriously? …
How to do an Adobe Reader Custom Installation
Having just bought a new computer with a rather small (100 GB) SSD OS drive, I’m making every effort to install programs on the terabyte D: drive. So I get more than a bit cranky …
Hide Child Page List
A source of annoyance for me on our internal Confluence installation is the default list of child pages at the bottom of every page. I finally found a solution on Sarah Maddox’s blog post Confluence …
Adding ‘Recent Places’ to SSMS
I was recently frustrated by the plain Open File dialog box presented in SQL Server Management Studio. The Look in: options are limited to Desktop, My Projects, and My Computer. I make frequent use of …
Sticky Wikis
John Rotenstein, Business Intelligence Manager at Atlassian, made a presentation at the Atlassian Summit in San Francisco on how Atlassian makes its Confluence wiki “sticky.” As an international organization, Atlassian expects its employees to “live …
SSMS Configuration Tips
Recently my install of Management Studio decided to reset itself back to the defaults. After a bit of hunting around for the blog posts that listed some great configurations, I decided to make note of …