Working with the New Document and Upload Document Tools

Located to the far left of the Documents tab on the Ribbon, the New Document and Upload Documents tools are frequently used tools that allow a user with sufficient permissions to create a new document using the template assigned to the document library or upload documents. The Upload Document tool was discussed in detail in the “Adding Documents to a Document Library” section and so won’t be covered in more detail in this section.

Follow these steps to use the New Document tool:

  1. From within a document library, using an account with contributor or greater permissions, click the New Document icon.
  2. A warning message may appear when the template.dotx or other template file (if defined by the ...

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