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Open and edit a document

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From the course: Learning SharePoint 2016

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Open and edit a document

- [Instructor] Microsoft's original imagining of Sharepoint was a mechanism for being able to store and collaborate on documents. That's where we go next. Documents are stored in libraries, remember that we can search an entire site to be able to find a document, and that search box is useful if you have multiple document libraries on a site, which is a possibility. If you only have one, you can use the find a file box to find a particular document that you're looking at. Remember that any time you're viewing a list or a library as part of a page, you may not be seeing all the documents. It might be showing you 10 documents or most current documents. If you're looking then for a file and you use the find a file box, it will find all of the documents, and it's searching the entire library even if those files aren't all shown here. To open a file, we have some choices. First, I can click the menu button to display the preview. From here, if I wish to edit this document, I can simply…

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