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Creating a document library

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Creating a document library

Depending on your level of enthusiasm when it comes to SharePoint, this video may apply to you. In many organizations, your typical employee or end-user of SharePoint may be asked if they wish to be a subject matter expert or a champion for their respective team or department. In this role, you may have elevated permissions and abilities, which means you'll need to know more than everyone else. So let's look at how you go about creating a document library on a SharePoint site. In the top left corner of the site page, you'll see an option for Site Actions. If I click on the button, new options appear. And I'm going to go ahead and click on New Document Library. In this Create window, there are all sorts of options to pick from that will allow you to customize the document library that you're about to create. First, we need to give it a name. As an example, I'm going to call this one Marketing Collateral. I can also type in a description if I'd like. Just below this area is a navigation…

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