From the course: Working and Collaborating Online
Share a document
- [Instructor] OneDrive is a useful resource for storing files that you want to share or distribute to others. Even with the default amount of storage space you get with a free OneDrive account, you can share much larger files than you could by sending them over e-mail. Sharing a file with others from OneDrive is a simple matter of generating a link that you can send to them. Start by selecting the file you want to share from your file list, then in the toolbar, click the Share button. In this Send link area that opens, you can enter the e-mail addresses of the people you want to share the file with, to have Microsoft automatically send an e-mail with a link to that file when you click Send. Alternately, you can generate a link by clicking Copy Link, and that creates a link you can copy it to your clipboard by clicking Copy. And then you're free to paste that address into an e-mail you're composing yourself or into an instant messaging program or a webpage you're publishing, and so on. For example, I've already started composing an e-mail message in Microsoft Outlook, and here I'll just right click and choose Paste to paste in that address. And once I'm done, I can click Send to send the e-mail containing this link, and my recipient will be able to click that link to download the file to her own computer. So that's a look at how easy it is to share files from OneDrive.
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