Viewing File Properties

a file, talk about changes while you’re online with your team, or just dive in and begin creating what you’re thinking about while you’re thinking about it. To start a new document in SharePoint Online, click the document library and click New Document in the New group on the far left side of the Library Tools Documents tab. Click New Document, and a new blank document opens in Microsoft Word. A message box appears reminding you that some files may be harmful and asking you to verify that you want to download the file. Click OK and then click Enable Editing to begin working in the new document. These protection features are part of Office 2010 and are designed to safeguard you against potentially harmful files you might download from the Internet. After you enable editing on the document from your team site, however, Office adds the site to your trusted locations and you shouldn’t need to click Enable Editing again.

Tip You can also upload an existing document from your computer to the document library by clicking Upload Document in the New group of the Library Tools Document tab. When you click the tool, you have the choice of uploading a single document or multiple documents, using the same Upload Document dialog box you used earlier in this chapter.

File properties are simple to use in SharePoint Online. You can easily view and change the file properties—which include essentially the file name and the title—by selecting the check box of the file on the far left side of the document library and clicking either View Properties or Edit Properties in the Manage group on the Library Tools Documents tab. In the Properties dialog box that appears when you click Edit Properties, you can rename the file or type a new title. (See Figure 6-11.) Additionally you can delete the file if you’d like by clicking Delete Item.