Introduction

When I started brainstorming ideas for books about SharePoint Server 2010, the concept of an end-user book was very appealing to me for two primary reasons. First of all, there are some exciting changes to the end-user experience in SharePoint 2010. For example, the fluent “ribbon” user interface has been added. And secondly—unlike many applications—SharePoint provides end users with both deep and broad options for customization, personalization, and functionality.

As this book is meant for the end user, my goal was to consider how people use SharePoint and then encapsulate these use cases into chapters. However, to make the book useful beyond a single reading, I have added some reference chapters as well. Each chapter begins with ...

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