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

4.10. Summary

In Chapter 1, you saw how to create documents using Word for your document libraries and how to define default templates for those libraries. In this chapter, you took a deeper dive into using Microsoft Word with your SharePoint site. You saw how you can work with documents in Word and then save them directly to existing SharePoint libraries and even how to create new libraries from Word.

You also looked at metadata. Office products such as Word have supported the additional file properties for some time. SharePoint makes use of those properties by allowing you to associate them with columns in a library view. Once exposed as columns in a view, you can customize the view to aggregate the information found in those columns to create ...