Ryan Clark

As the Modern Workplace Architect at Mr. SharePoint, I help companies of all sizes better leverage Modern Workplace and Digital Process Automation investments. I am also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SharePoint and Microsoft 365.

How to Enable External Control in Microsoft Teams [Desktop Control]

How to Enable External Control in Microsoft Teams [Desktop Control]

One of the most often asked questions in regards to team collaboration in Microsoft Teams is how to enable external control of the desktop. This is such a pain especially for people who are miles apart and work together online. Fortunately, this is an easy fix, which you will learn in this article. Let’s start! How to Allow External Participant to Give/Request Control The first thing you need to know is that this feature is disabled by default for security measures. To activate this feature on Microsoft Teams, you need to access the admin center and change the policy there. […]

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How to Edit Word Documents Online for Free in 2021

How to Edit Word Documents Online for Free in 2025

The cool thing about Microsoft Word is that it became so popular that other platforms have started adopting it. As you may know, the DOC format is proprietary to Microsoft and is native to the Word application. Unfortunately, there are certain scenarios when you have to edit a Word document and you don’t have the application installed (like in the case of installing a fresh copy of your operating system). The good news is that there are plenty of ways to edit Word documents online for free. Furthermore, they’re all easy to use, albeit some of them may have restrictions

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How to Create Column and List Validation in SharePoint

How to Create Column and List Validation in SharePoint

The ability for your users to add metadata to the documents and files in a list or library is truly beneficial. With the use of other features like lookup columns and search filters, you’ll be able to find things a lot faster. Unfortunately, there’s only so much you can do to ensure that they enter the correct information. On the bright side, you can at least minimize the errors by setting up validation on the data with Excel-like formulas. In this article, let’s discuss column and list validation in SharePoint and what you have to do to set them up.

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How to Enable the Spell Check in Microsoft Teams

How to Enable Spell Check in Microsoft Teams Easily

Spell check is one of the most requested features in Microsoft Teams. Unfortunately, a lot of users either find that their Teams don’t have any sort of spell check or worse, their spell check is not functioning correctly. Do you belong to any of those groups? In this article, let’s discuss the spell check feature in Microsoft Teams and show you how to activate it. Meanwhile, I will also outline here the steps to take if the spell check in your Teams is malfunctioning. Let’s start! Is there a spell check on Microsoft Teams? Yes! Although it has been a

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SharePoint Lookup Column: How to Create One Easily

SharePoint Lookup Column: How to Create One Easily

If you have plenty of lists and libraries on one of your sites, then you may have wondered at some point if there was a way for you to show some columns from one list or library to another. With a lookup column, that’s certainly possible. In this article, I’ll show you how to easily create one on your SharePoint site. Note that although the use case for this feature is incredible, it comes with some limitations too. Let’s get started! What is a lookup column? The simplest explanation is that a lookup column is a special type of column

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Microsoft Office 365 vs GoDaddy Office 365 [Breakdown]

Microsoft Office 365 vs GoDaddy Office 365 (Breakdown)

GoDaddy and Microsoft formed a partnership in 2014. That led to the former creating its own offering of Microsoft 365 suite (they changed the name from Office 365 to reflect Microsoft’s recent change). Unfortunately, this offer, though significantly cheaper during the promotion period, has led to some problems for some of its users. In this article, you will learn the difference between GoDaddy Office 365 and of Microsoft Office 365. We will also discuss why plenty of people think of GoDaddy’s offer as a “trap”. Let’s get started. What is the GoDaddy Office 365 all about? Although GoDaddy has a

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SharePoint Calculated Column in a List or Library [Tutorial]

SharePoint Calculated Column in a List or Library (Tutorial)

If you’re a long-time user of SharePoint, then you must have stumbled upon calculated columns in a list or document library. You must have seen it on some site and you’re probably wondering how to implement it to your as well. The cool thing here is that the steps you need to take are quite the same, whether you’re using the classic or modern experience of SharePoint. In this article, I’ll show you what a calculated column in SharePoint can do and how you can implement it yourself in only a few steps. Let’s get started! What do you need

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How to Create a Drop-Down List in Excel in 3 Easy Steps

How to Create a Drop-Down List in Excel in 3 Easy Steps

If you’re new to Excel, you may find it hard to implement a drop-down list in Excel simply because there’s no one-click button for that. In fact, some long-time users may still forget how to do it as the button involved isn’t that obvious. In this article, I will show you how to easily create a drop-down list in three easy steps. Step 1: Select a Cell The first step is simple — select the cell that you want to turn into a drop-down list. For example, let’s say we have this spreadsheet below and we want to turn cell

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SharePoint list limit

How to Resolve the SharePoint 5,000 Item List Limit Threshold

It is often a problem for SharePoint users when the number of their items in their library hits the 5,000-mark. If you have experienced this and you’re worried that you can’t access or find your files anymore, you have come to the right place. In this article, you will learn more about what exactly triggers this issue, how you can possibly prevent it in the future, and what you can do to fix it. Let’s get started! The Truth About the SharePoint 5,000 Item Limit Threshold A lot of people have the misconception that a SharePoint list or library can’t

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SharePoint Classic vs Modern Experience [Comparison]

SharePoint Classic vs Modern Experience (Comparison)

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform from Microsoft that can be used to store and share content with others. Users can manage, collaborate, and access documents and other resources simultaneously. This platform has existed for two decades, but the modern experience was only introduced in 2016. Classic SharePoint is the legacy framework. A lot of organizations still use the old one, though because of the introduction of the new experience and Microsoft’s clear intention of focusing on it, a lot of people have been transforming old sites into modern equivalents. Modern SharePoint, on the other hand, visibly looks better and

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