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Introduction to content types

Learn how content types can help you standardize the way different categories of documents are managed.

Using Multiple Forms for a Single List

Read this blog post to learn how content types can help you build multiple forms from a single SharePoint list.

Turn on support for multiple content types in a list or library

Before you can apply multiple content types to a list or library, you need to enable the list or library for multiple content types. Read this article to learn how.

Windows SharePoint Services demos

Find demos to show you ways to use features on SharePoint sites.

Team up with Groove 2007 and SharePoint 2007 technologies

Find out how you can use Microsoft Office Groove 2007 and SharePoint 2007 technologies together to support team collaboration.

Groove 2007: Collaborative solutions through Sharepoint integration

Read about collaborative solutions with Groove 2007 and SharePoint 2007

Create a blog

Learn how blogs enable you or your organization to quickly share ideas and information.

Watch this: Use Word 2007 to post to a SharePoint blog

Learn how to use Word 2007 to create a blog post on a SharePoint site.

Demo: Use a blog to connect with your coworkers

Check out this demo to learn how blogs can help you keep coworkers updated.

Introduction to Windows SharePoint Services in international environments

Learn how site owners can create sites in a specific language and configure the regional settings that are appropriate for those sites.

Configure regional settings

Learn how to customize a site to use specific regional settings that are used as the default settings for all users of your site.

Change your regional settings

Learn how to change the regional settings for a site.

Demo: Work with SharePoint calendars in Outlook 2007

Learn how to synchronize and overlay a SharePoint calendar with your calendar in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

View and update a SharePoint calendar

Learn how to view and update a calendar on a SharePoint site by using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

View and create tasks on a SharePoint site by using Outlook.

Learn how to connect to tasks lists on a SharePoint site and make changes to them by using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

Team up with Groove 2007 and SharePoint 2007 technologies

You can use Microsoft Office Groove 2007 and SharePoint 2007 technologies together to support the new virtual team environment and work with colleages and partners spread out in other locations.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Sample: Example Master Pages

Check out these sample master pages that were created using CSS and Master Page editing tools within Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Templates

Check out these sample application templates to give you a head start on sites that you own or administrate.

Introduction to integrating data between Access and a SharePoint site

Learn how you can share and manage data by using Microsoft Office Access 2007 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Move the tables in an Access database to a SharePoint site and link to them

Learn how to share data in Microsoft Office Access 2007 as lists on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.

Work offline with tables that are linked to SharePoint lists

Learn how to use Microsoft Office Access 2007 to work offline with data that is linked to a list on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.

About site groups

Learn how Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services uses site groups to manage security across a SharePoint site.

Create, edit, or delete a cross-site group

Learn how to create, edit and delete a cross-site group in SharePoint.

Enable or disable rights for a site group

View these instructions on how to edit site group permissions in SharePoint.

Introduction to libraries

Familiarize yourself with different ways to work with your libraries and learn about the types of libraries available in Windows SharePoint Services.

Create a library

Learn how to create libraries to share and manage documents for your team.

Manage lists and libraries with many items

Learn how to manage large lists and libraries to improve the performance of your SharePoint site.

Add or change a workflow for a list, library, or content type

Learn about creating and deploying workflows, and see how you can add and then customize a workflow for a list, library, or content type.

Change a content type for a list or library

Learn how to associate a new or revised document template with a content type to ensure consistency in the presentation for all documents of that type.

Managing access and security to a SharePoint site

Check out this video to learn more about security settings and managing access to WSS.

Using Web Parts

Check out this new video to learn about the basic building blocks used to create SharePoint sites.

Manage site navigation settings

Check out this new video to learn how you can customize the navigation components of SharePoint sites to provide more flexibility for your team.

Configure permissions for a blog

Learn how to configure permissions for posts, comments, lists, and libraries associated with your blog.

Configure a link to open in a new browser window using the SharePoint blog post editor

Learn how to change the default behaviour of how hyperlinks are creaed in the SharePoint blog post editor.

Watch this: Use Word 2007 to post to a SharePoint blog

Learn how to use Word 2007 to create a post for a SharePoint blog, check spelling, format text, insert hyperlinks, insert images, and publish the post to the blog.

Office Hours: SharePoint views, a cure for too much information

Learn how views can help you tune into the information that's most important to you on a SharePoint site.

Watch this: Make it easier to find information with views

Watch this short demo on how to use views to find the information that you need more easily.

Create or change a view

Learn how to use views to see the items in a list or library that are most important to you or that best fit a purpose.

Introduction to versioning

Learn how versioning enables you to store, track, and restore items in a list or files in a library as they are modified.

Enable and configure versioning for a list or library

Learn how to enable versioning for a list or library. Discover the differences between list versioning configuration and library versioning configuration.

What's new in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Read about new ways to help your team stay connected, share information, and get work done faster.

Getting started with Windows SharePoint Services

Get started with sharing information by using lists, libraries, and other features of a SharePoint site.

Introduction to content types

Help your organization share information more efficiently and consistently by using content types.

Demo: Tour a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

See a demonstration of how a SharePoint site can help your team to share information and get more work done.

Accessibility features

Learn how you can perform most tasks by using accessibility features such as keyboard shortcuts.

Introduction to lists

Share information with your team by using contacts, tasks, calendars, and other types of lists.

Introduction to site navigation

Learn how to move around on a site and customize the navigation.

Copy a file to a library

See how to copy files to different libraries, and then manage the copies after they are created.

Create a survey

Learn how to poll team members or customers to find out what is on their minds.

Introduction to blogs

Share ideas and information about products, technologies, and processes by publishing that information as posts to a blog.

Create a blog

Learn how to quickly create a blog site using the Windows SharePoint Services blog template.

Post to a blog

Create a post on a blog in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using a Web browser. Learn how to create content, add pictures, apply formatting, and insert hyperlinks.

About controlling access to sites and site content

Learn how you can control access to what users or SharePoint groups can access on your SharePoint site.

Manage SharePoint groups

Learn how to manage SharePoint groups by adding or deleting groups, adding or removing users from a group, and changing group settings.

Send e-mail to members of a SharePoint group

Use SharePoint groups as email distribution lists.

Save a site as a template

Learn how to quickly recreate the design, structure, or content of a site by using site templates.

Share customizations by saving them as templates

Find out how templates can package up customizations to an existing site so that you can easily reuse them.

Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Learn how to get predefined templates you can use to quickly build customized solutions to address specific business needs.

Introduction to data calculations

Learn about formulas, functions, and constants that help you calculate data in a SharePoint list.

Calculate data in lists or libraries

Learn how to create and add calculated columns to lists, such as an expiration date that is 30 days from the current date.

Examples of common formulas

See examples of data calculations for lists, such as a date that is three days from the current date or how to round off numbers.

Introduction to workflows

Learn how workflows streamline common business processes, such as project approval or document review, by managing and tracking the human tasks involved with these processes.

Use a Three-state workflow

Use the Three-stage workflow template to manage business processes that require you to track the status of an issue or item through three different states or phases.

Add or change a workflow for a list, library, or content type

Learn about creating and deploying workflows, and see how you can add and then customize a workflow for a list, library, or content type.

Introduction to libraries

Familiarize yourself with different ways to work with your libraries and learn about the types of libraries available in Windows SharePoint Services.

Manage lists and libraries with many items

Learn how to manage large lists and libraries to improve the performance of your SharePoint site.

Change a content type for a list or library

Learn how to associate a new or revised document template with a content type to ensure consistency in the presentation for all documents of that type.

Create an alert or subscribe to an RSS Feed

Do you want to know when people change your documents? Stay updated on changes to your site with alerts and RSS feeds.

Manage alerts

View and change the settings for e-mail alerts that you receive when people change the content on your site.

Cancel an alert or unsubscribe to an RSS Feed

Are you working on a different project now? Is your Inbox full? Find out how to stop receiving e-mail alerts or unsubscribe to RSS Feeds for a Windows SharePoint Services site.

Demo: Boost teamwork with a wiki

See a video on how to easily brainstorm, plan, and record team knowledge with a wiki.

Create a discussion board

Learn how to create a discussion board, similar to a newsgroup, so you and your team can discuss topics.

Participate in a discussion board

Learn how to discuss topics and share information by participating in a discussion board.

Roadmap to SharePoint document library training

Check out the latest training courses for learning how to work most effectively with SharePoint document libraries.

Apply Information Rights Management to a list or library

Learn how to use Information Rights Management to limit the actions that users can take on files that have been downloaded from SharePoint lists or libraries.

Approve or reject items or files in a list or library

Gain more control over items and files by using the content approval setting .

Create a survey

Learn how to create a survey using multiple choice fields, fill-in fields, and ratings.

Respond to a survey

Discover how to work with surveys by learning how to respond to one.

View and analyze survey results

Familiarize yourself with analyzing survey results by seeing an overview of results, viewing a graphical summary of survey responses, and exporting responses to a spreadsheet.

Introduction to versioning

Learn how versioning enables you to store, track, and restore items in a list or files in a library as they are modified.

Enable and configure versioning for a list or library

Learn how to enable versioning for a list or library. Discover the differences between list versioning configuration and library versioning configuration.

SharePoint document libraries III: Work with version history

Take this self-paced training lesson about versioning features in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Create a Meeting Workspace site

Bring more order to your meetings by setting up one of five kinds of Meeting Workspace sites.

Customize a Meeting Workspace site

Customize a Meeting Workspace site by adding lists, changing the appearance, and more.

Add, change, and delete pages in a Meeting Workspace site

Do you track a lot of information for your meetings? Learn how to add more pages to your Meeting Workspace site.

Create and manage a project task list

See a visual display, known as a Gantt view, of your tasks with a project task list.

Create a calendar

Track team events, conferences, vacations, and other important dates with a calendar.

Introduction to lists

Learn about features to help you get the most out of lists, such as calendars, task lists, and discussion boards.

SharePoint document libraries IV: Tips and tricks

Take this self-paced training course to learn how to be more productive and efficient using document libraries.

Eight tips for storing and editing documents on team Web sites

Sally McGee recommends eight tips for setting up and using a team Web site for document storing and collaboration.

SharePoint document libraries V: How to download a library

Take this training course to learn how you can use Outlook for downloading, opening and editing documents in a document library.

Introduction to blogs

Share ideas and information about products, technologies, and processes by publishing that information as posts to a blog.

Create a blog

Learn how to quickly create a blog site using the Windows SharePoint Services blog template.

Post to a blog

Create a post on a blog in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using a Web browser. Learn how to create content, add pictures, apply formatting, and insert hyperlinks.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Quick Reference Guide

Download this quick reference guide for quick tips on using Windows SharePoint Services.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Sample: Example Master Pages

Check out these sample master pages that were created using CSS and Master Page editing tools within Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Templates

Do you need to install application templates in sites or workspaces that you own or administrate? These site administrator templates are easy to install without requiring server administration access.

Office Hours: Get your docs in a row with SharePoint libraries

SharePoint libraries help people organize documents and keep up with changes, so your team won't feel like it's swimming against the current.

Demo: Tour a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

See a demonstration of how a SharePoint site can help your team to share information and get more work done.

Getting started with Windows SharePoint Services

Get started with sharing information by using lists, libraries, and other features of a SharePoint site.

Roadmap to using SharePoint Server 2007

Use this roadmap as a starting point to learn about the broad capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and how to complete common tasks as a contributor to a SharePoint site.

Roadmap to SharePoint document library training

Get access to training courses that cover sharing files, checking files in and out of SharePoint, version history, and downloading a document library. You'll also get timesaving tips that will make you a power user of SharePoint libraries.

Get SharePoint training on your desktop

Download a simple file to get the grand tour of the latest features and changes, including automated workflows to track approval cycles, business dashboards showing how well you are performing on your goals, and syncing documents to Outlook.

Create a wiki

Learn how your team can use a wiki to gather and share ideas on a site quickly.

Edit a wiki

Your team can edit a wiki by adding content and links.

View or restore previous versions of a wiki

Learn how to create and view a version history of your wiki, and even restore a previous version if you make a mistake.

Introduction to versioning

Learn how versioning enables you to store, track, and restore items in a list or files in a library as they are modified.

Enable and configure versioning for a list or library

Learn how to enable versioning for a list or library. Discover the differences between list versioning configuration and library versioning configuration.

SharePoint document libraries III: Work with version history

Take this self-paced training lesson about versioning features in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Introduction to data calculations

Learn about formulas, functions, and constants that help you calculate data in a SharePoint list.

Calculate data in lists or libraries

Learn how to create and add calculated columns to lists, such as an expiration date that is 30 days from the current date.

Examples of common formulas

See examples of data calculations for lists, such as a date that is three days from the current date or how to round off numbers.

Cancel an alert or unsubscribe to an RSS Feed

Learn how to cancel alerts or RSS Feeds about updates to content.

Get our RSS Feed for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Subscribe to our RSS Feeds, and we'll send you the latest Help and How-to articles, for free, about twice a month.

Create an alert or subscribe to an RSS Feed

Do you want to know when people change your documents? Stay updated on changes to your site with alerts and RSS feeds.

Introduction to workflows

Learn how workflows streamline common business processes, such as project approval or document review, by managing and tracking the human tasks involved with these processes.

Use a Three-state workflow

Use the Three-stage workflow template to manage business processes that require you to track the status of an issue or item through three different states or phases.

Add or change a workflow for a list, library, or content type

Learn about creating and deploying workflows, and see how you can add and then customize a workflow for a list, library, or content type.

Office Hours: SharePoint views, a cure for too much information

Learn how using views in SharePoint can help you focus on the information that's most important to you on a SharePoint site.

Watch this: Make it easier to find information with views

This short demo shows you how to work with views in SharePoint to find the information you need.

Create or change a view

Learn about personal and public views and how to create them to see items in a list or library that are most important to you.

Roadmap to SharePoint document library training

Check out the latest training courses for learning how to work most effectively with SharePoint document libraries.

Introduction to libraries

Familiarize yourself with different ways to work with your libraries and learn about the types of libraries available in Windows SharePoint Services.

Introduction to versioning

Learn how versioning enables you to store, track, and restore items in a list or files in a library as they are modified.

Enable and configure versioning for a list or library

Learn how to enable versioning for a list or library. Discover the differences between list versioning configuration and library versioning configuration.

Introduction to workflows

Learn how workflows streamline common business processes, such as project approval or document review, by managing and tracking the human tasks involved with these processes.