Book description
Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft SharePoint 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to get things done.
Here’s WHAT you’ll learn:
Create libraries for all kinds of media
Share information in one location
Organize people and processes
Connect SharePoint to Microsoft Office with no fuss
Find things fast with the Search Center
Expand your community with social networking
Here’s HOW you’ll learn it:
Jump in wherever you need answers
Follow easy STEPS and SCREENSHOTS to see exactly what to do
Get handy TIPS for new techniques and shortcuts
Use TRY THIS! exercises to apply what you learn right away
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- 1. About this book
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2. What’s new and improved in SharePoint 2013
- Creating a new site
- Customizing the interface
- Using the Office Store
- Creating an asset library
- Adding a thumbnail to a video
- Using SkyDrive Pro
- Using the timeline feature for tasks
- Mentioning a colleague feature
- Expanding My Tasks settings
- Previewing search documents
- Using the Community Site template
- Creating badges
- Creating an eDiscovery Center
- Using Visual Designer for workflows within SharePoint Designer
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3. Getting started with SharePoint sites
- Understanding sites
- Creating a SharePoint site from a template
- Locating content on a site
- Changing your site’s title, description, and logo
- Changing the look and feel of a site
- Changing the navigation tree view settings
- Editing the Quick Launch bar on a nonpublishing site
- Editing the Top Link bar on a nonpublishing site
- Editing publishing site navigation
- Saving a site as a template
- 4. Organizing and managing information
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5. List and library essentials
- Using your apps
- Creating and deleting lists
- Adding and editing list items
- Deleting and restoring list items
- Creating list columns
- Editing and deleting list columns
- Using list and column validation rules
- Sorting and filtering lists
- Creating and selecting a list view
- Sorting or filtering a list view
- Organizing items by using folders
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6. Working with documents
- Managing documents with a document library
- Customizing document templates
- Uploading multiple documents
- Requiring and displaying document check out
- Checking documents in and out
- Configuring documents with document IDs
- Using document IDs
- Moving documents
- Copying or sharing documents
- Configuring document sets on a site
- Configuring document sets on a document library
- 7. Working with media
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8. Using SkyDrive Pro
- Accessing your SkyDrive Pro account
- Saving files to SkyDrive Pro
- Saving files to be accessible only to you
- Sharing SkyDrive Pro files
- Following SkyDrive Pro documents
- Locating followed documents by using the newsfeed
- Locating followed documents by using SkyDrive Pro
- Synchronizing SkyDrive Pro to your local computer
- Discontinuing sync between SkyDrive Pro and your local device
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9. Using information management policies
- Introduction to information management policies
- Information management policy inheritance
- Accessing site content type information management policies
- Accessing list information management policies
- Creating content type retention policies on a library
- Setting library or folder-based retention schedules
- Creating auditing policies
- Viewing an audit report
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10. Organizing people and work
- Creating a project schedule by using a tasks list
- Adding tasks
- Viewing tasks in a Gantt Chart
- Adding multiple tasks and subtasks
- Creating a calendar list
- Scheduling events on the calendar
- Using the issue tracking list
- Creating a discussion board
- Participating in a discussion
- Rating discussions
- Connecting a discussion to Microsoft Outlook
- Synchronizing project tasks with Microsoft Project
- 11. Using Web Parts
- 12. Using SharePoint with Office 2013
- 13. Collaborating with blogs
- 14. Security within SharePoint 2013
- 15. Using personal sites and social networking
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16. Searching for information
- Creating a Search Center
- Searching from a Search Center
- Preparing your site for search
- Searching site content
- Using search refinement
- Previewing search results in Search Center
- Using advanced search
- Working with search alerts
- Setting your search preferences
- Promoting search results
- Excluding site content
- Excluding document libraries and lists from search
- Excluding site columns from search
- Maintaining search configurations
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17. Community portals and sites
- Creating a community site site collection
- Creating a community site subsite
- Adding moderators to community sites
- Adding users to community sites
- Managing your community settings
- Working with categories
- Working with badges
- Assigning badges to members
- Enabling site-wide reputation tracking
- Viewing badges and reputation scores for a member
- Creating and editing discussions
- Replying to a discussion
- Searching for discussions
- Tracking discussions in progress
- Managing replies
- Moderating discussions
- Reviewing posts submitted for moderation
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18. Automating tasks with workflows
- Associating workflows with lists
- Associating workflows with content types
- Starting workflows on documents
- Checking the status of a running workflow
- Creating a list workflow in SharePoint Designer
- Editing workflows
- Introducing Microsoft Visio integration with SharePoint workflows
- Switching to the visual designer
- Creating workflows in Visio 2013
- Importing Visio workflows into SharePoint Designer
- 19. SharePoint and eDiscovery
- A. About the authors
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Plain & Simple
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735672147
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