Introduction 1 About This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: Getting Started with SharePoint 5 Chapter 1: Getting to Know SharePoint 7 Up and Running with SharePoint in Three Minutes Flat 8 Wrapping Your Head around SharePoint 12 No, really, what is SharePoint? 12 A Microsoft product 14 Many different SharePoint definitions 14 More than a website 16 Taking a Peek at a SharePoint Site 17 Getting Familiar with SharePoint Terminology 20 Branding 20 Business intelligence (BI) 20 eDiscovery 21 Identity management 21 Mobile 22 Records management and compliance 22 Search 23 Social 23 Web content management 23 Workflow 24 Chapter 2: Introducing SharePoint in Office 365 25 Accessing and Using SharePoint 26 Getting Familiar with SharePoint Online 26 Determining What Version of SharePoint You are Using 28 Understanding Why SharePoint Online Has Become So Popular 28 Differences between SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises 29 Exploring the Benefits of SharePoint Online 31 Data center and hardware 31 Software platform 32 Backup, redundancy, and security 33 Chapter 3: Wrangling SharePoint Functionality 35 Coming to Terms with Website Templates 35 Show Me the Apps 37 Working with Web Pages 38 Site page 39 Wiki page 39 Web Part page 40 Publishing page 40 Understanding Web Parts 40 Digging into SharePoint Features 41 Integrating with Office 2019 42 Part 2: Diving Headfirst into SharePoint 43 Chapter 4: Discovering SharePoint in Your Pocket 45 Installing the SharePoint Mobile App 45 Installing on iOS 46 Installing on Android 46 Signing into the SharePoint Mobile App 47 Finding Your SharePoint Stuff with the Find Tab 49 Exploring a SharePoint site 50 Opening navigation 51 Getting the Latest News with the News Tab 52 All About You with the Me Tab 53 Chapter 5: Understanding SharePoint Sites and Hub Sites 55 Accessing SharePoint Sites in Office 365 55 Exploring the SharePoint Team Site 57 Finding your way around 58 Uploading documents 59 Sharing your team site 59 Creating a SharePoint Site 63 Create a site from your web browser 63 Create a site from the SharePoint Mobile App 66 Requesting a SharePoint Site 67 Grouping Sites with Hub Sites 68 Chapter 6: Working with Web Pages and Web Parts 71 Understanding SharePoint Web Pages 72 Creating a Site page 72 Creating a Web Part page 72 Creating a Wiki page 75 Introducing the Ribbon 76 Deciding What Type of Page to Create 77 Digging into Web Parts 77 Adding a Web Part to Your Page 78 Choosing the Right Web Part 81 Changing Web Part Properties 84 Reviewing Web Part properties 84 Editing Web Part properties 85 Minimizing or deleting Web Parts 86 Connecting Web Parts 87 Managing Pages 89 Categorizing Your Wiki Pages 89 Taking a Sneak Peek into Custom Page Designs 91 Chapter 7: Adding Content to SharePoint 93 SharePoint as a Content Management System 93 Wrangling the Overwhelming Mountain of Digital Content 94 Getting Your Documents into SharePoint 95 Uploading a single document 96 Uploading multiple documents 97 Updating document properties using Quick Edit view 98 Creating New Content in SharePoint 99 Using the SharePoint Mobile App to Peek at Content on the Go 100 Chapter 8: Discovering SharePoint in Microsoft Teams 103 Using Teams in Office 365 103 Understanding the Marriage of SharePoint and Teams 105 Accessing SharePoint files in Teams 105 Using the Teams wiki and finding it in SharePoint 107 Adding SharePoint Pages and Lists to Teams 107 Chapter 9: Working with SharePoint from Microsoft Office 111 Getting Familiar with Office Versioning 111 Working with Office on Your Desktop or Laptop 112 Installing Microsoft Office 112 Saving a new document to SharePoint 114 Opening a document from SharePoint 116 Working with Office on Your Smartphone or Tablet 118 Saving a new document to SharePoint 118 Opening a document from SharePoint 119 Chapter 10: Getting Social 121 Sharing and Following SharePoint Sites 122 Setting up alerts 124 Managing alerts 127 Staying Up to Date with News 129 Information Sharing with Blogs and Wikis 130 Creating a blog site 130 Posting to a blog 131 Using wikis to collaborate and coauthor 131 Communicating with Discussion Boards 134 Creating a Discussion Board app 134 Posting and replying to a subject 134 Connecting with Others Using RSS Feeds 135 Viewing RSS feeds 136 Reading RSS feeds with Outlook 138 Using Comments in a SharePoint site 139 Part 3: Customizing SharePoint 141 Chapter 11: Customizing SharePoint with Apps 143 Introducing SharePoint Apps 144 Adding Apps to Your Site 144 Accessing App Settings 146 Configuring the General Settings 148 Changing the title, description, and navigation 149 Versioning settings 149 Advanced settings 152 Validation settings 156 Audience Targeting settings 157 Rating settings 157 Form settings 158 Developing a Custom App 158 Planning Your App 158 Creating Your App 159 Adding columns to your app 160 Working with the Title column 167 Importing a Spreadsheet as an App 169 Taking Your App to the Next Level: Calculated and Lookup Columns 171 Creating a calculated column 171 Using a lookup column 172 Keeping Track of Locations 173 Downloading Apps from the SharePoint Store 174 Chapter 12: Taking Control of Your Profile and Content 175 Organizing Your Personal Content with OneDrive 175 Saving stuff with OneDrive 177 Creating or uploading documents in your OneDrive 178 Expressing Yourself with Your Profile 179 Creating a holistic profile experience 180 Filling in your profile information 180 Tracking Your Favorite Sites 182 Reaching Out with a Blog 183 Chapter 13: Organizing and Viewing Content 187 Working with Documents 187 Using the ellipsis 188 Editing a document''s properties 190 Viewing documents in the browser 190 Sharing Your Documents 192 Recovering Deleted Documents 192 Uploading Documents into a Folder 194 Discovering SharePoint Views 197 Switching the view 197 Getting to know view formats 199 Creating a Standard View 200 Choosing columns for your view 202 Filtering apps with views 203 Grouping results 204 Quickly edit app data with Quick Edit 205 Choosing a display style 206 Managing App Data in a Datasheet View 207 Using Ad Hoc Views 208 Creating a Calendar View 209 Displaying Tasks in a Gantt View 209 Managing Existing Views 210 Modifying your views 210 Setting the default view 211 Other SharePoint built-in views 211 Displaying Views via Web Parts 212 Chapter 14: Creating Workflows with Microsoft Flow 213 Understanding Workflow 214 Introducing Microsoft Flow 214 Signing into Microsoft Flow 214 Getting familiar with Flow 215 Building your first flow 216 Using the Traditional SharePoint-Only Workflow 219 Getting Up to Speed on SharePoint Designer 220 Connecting to a SharePoint site 220 Creating a workflow 222 Rediscovering the Out-of-the-Box Approval Workflow 223 Chapter 15: Getting Answers with Microsoft Forms 225 Signing into Microsoft Forms 225 Creating a Form in Microsoft Forms 226 Analyzing Microsoft Forms Data 229 Displaying a Form in SharePoint 230 Capturing Forms Data in SharePoint 232 Part 4: Becoming a SharePoint Administrator 233 Chapter 16: Building Business Apps with PowerApps 235 Introducing PowerApps 235 Signing into PowerApps 236 Getting familiar with PowerApps 236 Building your first PowerApp 237 Sharing your PowerApp 241 Using PowerApps on your Mobile Device 241 Embedding a PowerApp within a SharePoint Page 242 Viewing SharePoint Sites in a Web Browser on a Mobile Device 243 Creating views for small screens 244 Targeting devices using channels 245 Chapter 17: Realizing You are a SharePoint Administrator 247 Changing Your Site''s Basic Information 248 Finding Site Settings 249 Digging into Site Settings 251 Look and Feel 251 Site Actions 254 Site Collection Administration 254 Web Designer Galleries 255 Site Administration 256 Search 257 Getting a High-Level View of SharePoint Features 259 Turning Features On and Off 260 Exploring Common Features 261 Extending SharePoint with Features 262 Changing the Look and Feel of Your Site 262 A note on fonts 264<.