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The online version of your old Word or PDF will be easier to search, cross-reference, maintain, and, most importantly, easier for your staff to find, navigate and read. - [How to Build a TIMESHEET APP in Microsoft 365](https://lightlever.ca/how-to-build-a-timesheet-app-in-microsoft-365/): Do you need to track time for your business or your projects? You could purchase Timesheet software, but if you are using @Microsoft365, you can easily build it and save money on software and licenses. Why not better use the tools you are already paying for? (Yes, we're talking about Microsoft 365, SharePoint, PowerApps, and Excel. - [Build a Help & Support Page in SharePoint](https://lightlever.ca/2800-2/): Your #intranet users need an easy place to GET HELP. The SharePoint in Practice Intranet Build Toolkit shows us how to create a HELP & SUPPORT Page. Keep it fresh and everybody benefits. - [Gratitude: the Lightlever Origin Story](https://lightlever.ca/gratitude-the-lightlever-origin-story/): We’re not the X-MEN but Lightlever has an origin story, too. We may not be as cool as Wolverine, but please watch…and share. Thank you to @sean at @regroove, @kelly, and @veronica, @chris, @shelley and everyone who has supported us over the years! - [How to Build a Suggestion Box in SharePoint](https://lightlever.ca/gather-user-suggestions-in-sharepoint/): Build a SUGGESTION BOX in #SharePoint #Microsoft365. A video tutorial based on our Intranet Build Toolkit. - [Introducing SharePoint in Practice, 2nd Edition](https://lightlever.ca/introducing-sharepoint-in-practice-2nd-edition/): Step-by-Step Guidance and Downloadable SharePoint Tools for Small Business or Nonprofit Cloud Success: Strengthen Communication, Collaboration, and Intranet Excellence. - [Philosophy 365](https://lightlever.ca/philosophy-365/): This week we discuss our philosophy, or way of thinking, that we apply to Microsoft 365 and teach to our clients. This philosophy can support your Microsoft 365 adoption and usage. - [Planner : Project Management Lite](https://lightlever.ca/planner-project-management-lite/): This week we discuss and demo Microsoft Planner in detail. Planner is a simple task manager, or “Project Management LITE” tool that comes with Microsoft 365. - [Microsoft Bookings: For-Easy-Customer-Appointments](https://lightlever.ca/microsoft-bookings-for-easy-customer-appointments/): This week we discuss and demo Microsoft Bookings. We show the initial set-up through to the actual customer experience. Bookings is an amazing tool which gives your clients a way to book sessions or services with you or your staff. It creates a branded web page where people can choose available services and times, and then updates your Outlook calendar directly. Books can send reminder information, and even create a MS Teams link if your service is offered online. Of course, Bookings is included with Microsoft 365. - [Quarantine 365 (Microsoft 365 In Practice Episode-16)](https://lightlever.ca/quarantine-365-microsoft-365-in-practice-episode-16/): Gerry recorded this while #COVID quarantined in Halifax Nova Scotia. Provincial laws require anyone entering the Atlantic provinces to self-isolate for 14 days. So, Gerry has been working online and working out in his room to stay sane, while waiting to be allowed to see his kids. - [A Quick Look At The M365 Admin Centre](https://lightlever.ca/a-quick-look-at-the-m365-admin-centre/): Microsoft 365: there’s a lot to it. And a lot of that is configured and managed through the Microsoft 365 Administration portal. Let’s look at the structure and some key actions to support your effective set-up and use of M365. - [Secure Passwords & Multi Factor Authentication](https://lightlever.ca/secure-passwords-multi-factor-authentication/): Microsoft 365 has your security needs covered. In this episode, we take a look at the various methods we use to ensure that it stays that way. - [Save 15 Seconds With Pin & follow](https://lightlever.ca/save-15-seconds-with-pin-follow/): You have a lot going on every day. You know how to “bookmark” or “favourite” websites to get back to them easily & quickly. What about documents? With the built-in capabilities of Microsoft 365 and Windows 10, you can pin files and follow conversations to more easily pick up where you left off. Let’s look at some ways to increase your efficiency. - [Multitasking: Benefits & Costs](https://lightlever.ca/multitasking-benefits-costs/): Most of us have a lot to do every day. And the buzzword “multitasking“ has been around for a long time. But can we really do two things at once? Join me for a walk in the forest while we discuss this important topic and some of things that work and don’t work for me. - [A Quick Look At Outlook](https://lightlever.ca/a-quick-look-at-outlook/): Microsoft Outlook: one of our most important technology tools. Outlook is what you use for email, every day. Let’s look at some shortcuts and a few cool time-saving tips. - [Metadata Managed](https://lightlever.ca/metadata-managed/): You know that SharePoint can do a lot for you. But do you know about creating a taxonomy or “term set” to classify, sort, and find data across multiple sites? This video will give you a basic understanding of managed metadata in Microsoft 365. - [Veris Canada](https://lightlever.ca/veris-canada/): Veris is a premium project management and business transformation consulting company in Calgary, AB. Existing solely to deliver business results, Veris is pragmatic and systemic in all they do.  See more at www.veriscanada.com. - [Monk-Office-Supply](https://lightlever.ca/monk-office-supply/): Monk Office is Vancouver Island’s largest office products provider and the largest independent stationer in BC. Monk opened their first store over half a century ago, and their people are still passionate about helping businesses succeed. See more at www.monk.ca. - [City Of Langford](https://lightlever.ca/city-of-langford/): Langford is a progressive municipality that has fully embraced the Microsoft toolset, and in particular SharePoint, to improve communication and collaboration across their many staff and locations. Langford is busy and booming. In their words “Langford projected an increase in its population by 123% over 25 years starting in 2001…” (from www.cityoflangford.ca) - [Bc Provincial Government](https://lightlever.ca/bc-provincial-government/): The BC Ministry of Technology, Innovation, and Citizens’ Services (MTIC) is one of the largest BC Provincial Government Ministries and MTIC is always looking for ways to do more with less. - [Greater-Victoria-Harbour-Authority](https://lightlever.ca/greater-victoria-harbour-authority/): The GVHA owns and manages approximately 100 acres of harbour land and seabed in Victoria, BC with an annual budget of $11-million. Incorporated as a not-for-profit, GVHA’s constitution requires that it ensure the long-term sustainability of the organization and its assets without recourse to local subsidies. This creates pressure for GVHA to get a lot done within a limited budget. - [Collaboration-Kickstart : Connect-Ccs](https://lightlever.ca/collaboration-kickstart-connect-ccs/): Community Connections Society of Southeast BC is a not for profit social service agency. We provide services to communities throughout the East Kootenay area of British Columbia. We employee approximately 120 staff throughout the East Kootenay. With continued budget constraints, rising cost and growth of organization we found it necessary to move to an ‘intranet secure system’. Successful grant application allowed us to move in this direction. ## Pages - [EverCompare](https://lightlever.ca/evercompare/) - [Blog](https://lightlever.ca/blog/): Giving back to the community - [Accessibility](https://lightlever.ca/accessibility/): Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 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