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Working with libraries - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2010 Essential Training
Working with libraries
If there is one single piece of SharePoint that most people are going to use most of the time, it will be this part of SharePoint called a document library. You'll find a document library on just about every single SharePoint site that exists, and in many cases more than one document library. These are not things to be careful about. They are things to use liberally. They are things to use easily, like you might use folders on your desktop. On a typical team site, you'll find a document library called Shared Documents. I've uploaded the couple of things to this, just so we have something to work with. A document library is part of a site. You'll find them in a team site, you'll find them in a Document Workspace, you'll find them in a Meeting Workspace. They are containers for documents but they are not folders. You can actually have folders inside document libraries. These are kind of like having a folder on steroids. There's a whole lot more you can do by putting your documents in a…