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Sync a document library to your computer

Sync a document library to your computer

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Sync a document library to your computer

[Voiceover] Just as I can synchronize documents from OneDrive, I can also synchronize an entire document library from SharePoint with my computer or mobile device, and it's going to work exactly the same way. Before we do that, let's talk a little bit about strategy. This certainly isn't something I do with all of my document libraries. I do this because I have a document library that I want to take offline either for the short-term or the long-term. And example of the short-term is I'm going to be traveling, need to do some work on a particular set of documents that are in a document library and there aren't a lot of other documents that I need. Maybe I need seven or eight of these documents, some for reference, some for work. It makes sense to take them all offline and work with them. So I would synchronize this library so that while I was traveling, perhaps on a regional jet where I don't have wireless service, or in the middle of the woods at a retreat center, I can still work on…

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