SharePoint Online
Quick Start Tutorials
What is SharePoint Online?
With SharePoint on your PC, Mac, or mobile device, you can:
Build intranet sites and create pages, document libraries, and lists.
Add web parts to customize your content.
Show important visuals, news, and updates with a team or communication site.
Discover, follow, and search for sites, files, and people across your company.
Manage your daily routine with workflows, forms, and lists.
Sync and store your files in the cloud so anyone can securely work with you.
Catch up on news on-the-go with the mobile app.
Important PC Folders (Auto Backup)
You can backup important computer files on OneDrive like your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures files.
Select the OneDrive cloud icon in the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar.
Select More > Settings.
On the Backup tab, under Important PC Folders, select Manage backup and follow the instructions.
Discover in SharePoint Online
Search For Something
Type into the Search box in the top left under the app launcher.
Filter your results by type, for example Sites, People, or Files.
Check Out News
The right pane gives you easy access to relevant content arranged in the following groupings:
News from sites highlights updates from sites you follow or visit often.
Frequent sites shows sites you visit often and recent activity on them.
Suggested sites appear based on searches you've done and recommendations from the Microsoft Graph.
Find Your Site
The left navigation pane shows SharePoint sites you follow, those you've visited recently, and sites your company wants to spotlight.
Following displays sites you follow, like your team's site or a site from another group you work with.
Recent shows any site you've gone to recently.
Saved lists news articles you've saved to read later.
Featured links displays sites your company wants to showcase.
Collaborate in SharePoint Online
Open a Document from Library
Go to a SharePoint site.
Open the document library and select the document.
Do any of the following:
- Select Open and select to edit in Office for the web.
- If you have the desktop app installed, select a file and then select Open > Open in <product> .
Share a Document
Select the document you want to share and select Share.
You have 3 options:
- Type the names or email addresses of the people you want to share the document with, and select Send.
- Select Copy Link to create a direct link to the file
- Select Outlook to open Outlook on the web and add a link to the file in a new email.
Work With Others at the Same Time
Open the document for editing in Office for the web.
The number of people currently editing the document appears at the top of the document in Office Online.
Create a Site
Select + Create site on the SharePoint start page.
In the wizard:
Select whether you'd like to create a Team site or a Communication site.
Enter the title (and a description, if you want) for the site.
You can select Edit and then edit the group email name, if you want.
Select whether the group will be public or private.
Choose a sensitivity level for your site information.
Select a default language for your site and then click Next.
In the next pane, enter the owners and members.
Select Finish.
A modern SharePoint Online site is provisioned and ready for use in seconds. If you selected a team site, an Office 365 Group is also created.
Add a Document Library or List
Open the site that you want to add the list or library to.
Select New.
Select List or Document library.
In the Create pane:
- Type a name for the list or library (and a description, if you want).
- Select Create.
Use Columns to Organize Information
Go to a list or library that you want to filter.
Select Open the filters pane .
Select how you want to filter your list or library from the options available.
Add a Page
Open the site that you want to add a page to.
Select New.
Select Page.
Type the name of your page.
You can publish your page now, or use web parts to add text, images, and other content.
Select Publish when you're ready.
Add a Web Part
In your news post or page, select the plus sign .
Select the web part you want to use: Text, Image, File viewer, Link, …
When you have added all the web parts that you want, select Publish.
Technology Inventory Specialist / Administrative Technology Trainer
Email: vanessa.arredondo@gccisd.net
Location: 5950 North Main Street, Baytown, TX, USA
Phone: (281) 707-3338