Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 3

Collaborating in SharePoint

IN THIS CHAPTER

Getting around SharePoint Online

Making the most of a SharePoint team site

Building pages and libraries

Organizing libraries by metadata and views

SharePoint can be a scary term for a lot of people. It may conjure bad memories of ugly web pages, messy folder structures, and bad search results. Those memories arise from the older versions of SharePoint that were installed on local servers. SharePoint Online, however, is modern, mobile friendly, and easy to use, especially compared to its predecessor versions.

SharePoint is an advanced collaboration and publishing system that stores much of the information you might work on when using Office 365. You may not directly encounter SharePoint all that often, but it does a lot of heavy lifting in the background for many Office 365 apps, especially for work and school accounts. This chapter shows you how to create a site and pages within the site. It also covers storing and collaborating on files, managing lists of information, and taking control of who can access the files and folders ...