Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

1.4. Adding Your First Document to Your New Library

When most people start using SharePoint for collaboration, they create a document library as one of their first tasks so they can store the files that they want to share with others. If you had your SharePoint administrator create a site for you or if you created it yourself, you probably noticed that a Shared Documents library already exists in your site. This library appears under Documents in the Quick Launch menu along the left side of the main site screen.

To open the Shared Documents library, click it. SharePoint opens a screen that displays a list of your shared documents. Of course, a new library has no documents in it. To create your first document, open the New menu at the top of ...