The PointFire Blog
The latest in multilingual SharePoint, AI-driven translation, and workplace efficiency with expert insights and best practices

April 28, 2025
Creating a language-dependent link to a document or external system in SharePointBy:
Martin Laplante
Say that you would like to have a link in your SharePoint page, for instance in the navigation, that goes to a different place depending on the user’s language. How do you do it? This article is a comprehensive how-to to get this done.
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March 14, 2025
The Future of SharePoint Search: How AI and Modern Solutions Are Changing the GameBy:
Martin Laplante
AI and modern solutions have already and will soon transform SharePoint search tools. We explore what the future holds for this evolving technology.
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February 19, 2025
SharePoint Search frustrations: what is costing you the most and how to fix itBy:
Martin Laplante
Struggling with SharePoint search? Employees waste up to 30% of their work time searching for information, leading to frustration and lost productivity. Traditional search enhancements help, but they don’t fix the biggest issue—sifting through results. Discover how PointFire Search Summarizer streamlines the process with AI-powered summaries, saving time and effort.
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December 27, 2024
How to Enable multilingual features in SharePoint for your global teamsBy:
Martin Laplante
This is a detailed guide on how to enable multilingual features in SharePoint. It details all the things you need to do in 5 areas: Alternate languages, Multilingual Page Publishing, term sets, content types and user profiles.
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December 27, 2024
SharePoint Translation vs Localization - What is the difference?By:
Martin Laplante
PointFire people talk about the difference between translation and localization quite a bit because there are two sets of products: (1) PointFire Translator which does translation of content and (2) PointFire 365 which does localization of the user interface. But what does that mean, really? When you look at a SharePoint screen, what fits into the category of translation and what fits into the category of localization?
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December 20, 2024
Changing your Microsoft 365 language now that Delve is goneBy:
Martin Laplante
This how-to guide details the steps to change users Microsoft 365 profile language without Delve
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December 11, 2024
Make search in SharePoint more effective with the Search SummarizerBy:
Martin Laplante
Wouldn't it be great if there was to make SharePoint searched more efficient? Discover the search summarizer, a tool that gives you AI summaries of every one of your search results. The summaries tell you what each document says about your search query. This product is an extension of the open source PnP search project.
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October 17, 2024
Implementing SharePoint Translation: PointFire vs. SharePoint AloneBy:
Martin Laplante
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