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Keeping organized is crucial for your team to stay productive. This can be achieved by a skilled manager whose experience is backed up by a well-structured calendar. SharePoint Online delivers an adaptable calendar that is designed to blend effortlessly into your organization’s workflow. This easy-to-follow guide will show you how to add and adjust a SharePoint Online calendar and how to dramatically improve its level of customization with a third-party app. ...

Do you tend to get everything done in time? If yes, congratulations! You have perfect planning and discipline skills. In today’s fast-paced world, time management and effective communication are two concepts that everyone has heard of but only few have seen. These two elements play a crucial role in productivity, teamwork, and, of course, in getting things done. With the ever-growing need for efficient collaboration, we seek help from modern techniques and applications. Many have already tried and appreciated shared calendars-an easy-to-use solution that enhances transparency and improves organization of your team’s daily activities. ...

Perception of color is influenced by a complex set of biological, psychological, and cultural factors. Color can calm and excite, increase compulsive reactions, and affect the heartbeat and body. This is why marketers love to study the effects of color and use their findings to increase sales. A human’s perception is influenced by colors a lot. With only a color a person can give a signal that affects others. For example, an experiment in combat sports showed that color can cause bias in referees: they gave more points to competitors in red uniforms, even when the performance of the competitors in blue was identical, because red is associated with power and aggression—positive traits in combat sports. Red often catches our attention due to its social and cultural associations, so we unconsciously mark important tasks and deadlines with it. ...

What Is Microsoft Lists? Microsoft Lists represents the evolution of traditional SharePoint lists to a more modern form of information management. It facilitates the tracking and organization of tasks for personal users or for teams. Enabling the swift development of lists, grids, and calendars, the Microsoft Lists app presents complex information in a clear and easily digestible format. The Microsoft Lists application is driven by three principles: Simplicity: Start a list easily from scratch or quickly with ready-to-use templates. Flexibility: Keep everyone in sync with smart alerts and formatting. Integrations: Collaborate directly in Microsoft Teams using flexible views such as gallery, list view, and calendar. Included in the Microsoft 365 suite, MS Lists is a work tracking app that allows you to create one or several lists containing whatever type of information you need so it’s ready to access whenever you need it. ...

In this article, we will look at how to delete documents from SharePoint Online and On-Premises and how Bulk File Delete by Virto can help you delete multiple files in no time. Managing files in SharePoint is quite easy thanks to the user-friendly interface you would expect from a Microsoft product. However, it does have its limitations, some of which can only be overcome by third-party applications. One of these is SharePoint’s bulk file operations. In this article, we will look at how to delete documents from SharePoint Online and On-Premises and how Bulk File Delete by Virto can help you delete multiple files in no time. ...

Microsoft Teams is one of the most widely used communication and collaboration platforms in business environments. It is often used for instant messaging, virtual meetings, shared calendars, and document repositories. Microsoft Teams can be integrated with additional applications like Virto Calendar Overlay that help both individuals and enterprises to organize and manage daily tasks and processes. In this article, we will take a closer look at the best third-party calendars that extend the capabilities of the Microsoft Teams shared calendar. ...

Introduction Microsoft Exchange is an easy-to-use solution for businesses providing full server functionality, web access, Exchange shared calendar, and other features for productive corporate work. The product is available through the Outlook client and can be deployed on your own server. What are the advantages of Microsoft Exchange over traditional services? Well, there are many. The first is storage. Traditional mail normally provides around 2-5 GB of storage per mailbox. Microsoft Exchange’s storage, on the other hand, starts from 50 GB. This is a great advantage because all your information is stored on the server. That takes us to the second perk: when you make any change from any of your devices – such as adding an event to Microsoft Exchange calendar or marking an email as unread – it is automatically synchronized with the server, so you will always see the updated information on all devices. ...

Over the past few years, the concept of a corporate portal has undergone significant changes. Today, an intranet portal, such as Microsoft SharePoint, is a special environment that combines classic task, time, and document management tools with modern tools like social networks and blogs. Today’s main trend is to increase business efficiency by creating a productive working environment for employees to unlock their potential. Companies are increasingly considering implementing tools such as SharePoint to become more mobile, technologically advanced, and efficient. This is not surprising: a company works more productively with well-organized document flow, business process management, and employee interaction. And this makes sense for both small and large companies. ...

Do you ever feel like everyone but you has a corporate Time-Turner like the ones from Rowling’s books? Does it ever seem like everyone else knows the secret of getting everything done all at once? It might seem that way, but in reality, there’s only one scientifically sound solution to getting things done – proper planning. And when you work in a team, you need to ensure adequate planning for the whole crew. ...

Overview VirtoSoftware is going to release a new update for Virto Kanban Board Pro App Microsoft Teams. We have changed the design and improved Kanban usability for mobile users. Now you can work with a full-featured Kanban Board for mobile devices. The application interface is fully adapted to mobile now. Virto Kanban Board integrates perfectly with Microsoft Teams. You can add the app to a Microsoft Teams channel as a separate tab. We have improved Kanban for Microsoft Teams: now, you can apply a dark theme to the Kanban Board added to your Microsoft Teams. ...

Open the SharePoint site page where you have added Virto Kanban Board. Click “Copy this board link to clipboard.” Insert the link to SharePoint left menu or quick launch. Now you can navigate directly to the board from the left menu. The board will open as an independent page. ...

Introduction Gantt chart and Kanban as methods have existed for a long time. Thanks to their founders, Henry Gantt and Taiichi Ohno, we now have two fascinating business management tools. VirtoSoftware offers online and on-premises versions for both approaches. You can use Virto Gantt Chart or Virto Kanban Board for your business. But which one to choose? Or can we use both? We want to show fundamental differences between the Gantt chart and Kanban board approaches. Here is a detailed comparison to help project teams choose the right solution to visualize, plan, schedule, and manage better! ...