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• EndUserSharePoint.com: Can I use SharePoint to store linked video files within PowerPoint?

  The question of the day comes from Craig: I have a user that works as an assistant to a high-level exec. The exec travels extensively and they want to use SharePoint to store his powerpoint presentations … the trick is, often these presentations... Posted Mar 19 2008, 05:12 AM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, Document Library, End User, Document Management, Libraries and Lists, powerpoint, training, Question of the Day, embedded video

• EndUserSharePoint.com: Comparing Document Management Solutions - Homegrown or Third Party?

  Today’s post was written by Ryne Crabb. He would like help from the EndUserSharePoint.com community evaluating two solutions for management of documents in SharePoint. Please use the comments section to voice your opinions, questions or End User... Posted Mar 14 2008, 10:00 AM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, End User, General Observations, Document Management, Libraries and Lists, training, document management solution, dms, ryne crabb

• EndUserSharePoint.com: Tracking printed documents

  The question of the day comes from Torbjorn: We want to able to track a printed document back to Sharepoint with help of the SharePoint generated id#. A document in Sharepoint gets some kind of id# when it is created (it is the same even after new versions... Posted Feb 26 2008, 12:38 AM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, End User, Document Management, training, metadata, unique id, footer

• EndUserSharePoint.com: Can I show documents to people who do not have MS Office?

  The question of the day comes from Michael: We are going to be implementing a document center at our facility. The documents being housed will be for reading only (mainly). Our problem is that some computers do not have Office installed, and they need... Posted Feb 13 2008, 04:09 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, End User, Document Management, Libraries and Lists, library, training, files, web pages, save as

• EndUserSharePoint.com: Tricks and Traps 2008-01-30

  The major topic in the EndUserSharePoint.com Shanghai workshops this week has been structuring information. The tip of the week is this: Consider creating “buckets” (libraries) for each of your major content areas and utilize views... Posted Jan 30 2008, 05:11 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, Web Parts, End User, General Observations, Document Management, Views, Libraries and Lists, Tips and Tricks, document libraries, training, Information Architecture

• EndUserSharePoint.com: Can I store terrabytes of data in SharePoint?

  The question of the day comes from Rudy: Is it feasable to use SharePoint as a document management system with several terrabytes of documents and less than 50 concurrent users? Is it possible… yeah, I guess so. But my real question would be “Why... Posted Jan 29 2008, 05:28 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, End User, General Observations, Document Management, terrabytes

• EndUserSharePoint.com”: Project based libraries vs master libraries

  The question of the day comes from Sasha: I have a parent “Clients” site and then multiple (>20) client sites under it. Some docs are unique to each client, some are shared across clients. All documents change frequently. I don’t... Posted Jan 22 2008, 07:51 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, End User, General Observations, Document Management, Libraries and Lists, library, Information Architecture, master

• Office Document Information Panel not Displaying Desired Metadata Structure

  As part of the screencast series for creating a Document Management Center, I demonstrate how to create a library to hold templates that can be attached to content types in various libraries. I received this comment from Susanne: “Have you noticed... Posted Nov 12 2007, 09:21 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, Content Type, Document Management, Tips and Tricks, library, metadata, templates

• Documentation Uploaded for Document Management Center Creation

  In order to help users walk through the creation of a Document Management Center, in addition to the screencasts I have included documentation in PDF format. Download it, print it and follow along with the screencasts. Go to the Videos On-Demand page... Posted Oct 19 2007, 10:26 AM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Screencast, video, Resources, document management center, Latest Projects, Document Management, documentation, Video On-Demand

• Screencasts - Create and Configure the Main Document Library

  The Document Management Center screencast series continues with seven short clips, walking through the process of creating and configuring a document library. They are posted in the Video On-Demand page in sequencial order. The subjects include creating... Posted Oct 18 2007, 06:15 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Screencast, video, Content Type, Document Library, Document Management, Video On-Demand, configure, Views, Libraries and Lists, create, Tips and Tricks

• Document Library Consolidation

  Cory on the SharePoint University Forums presented nice solution to a common problem: how do I consolidate library lists while allowing end users to add documents within their own subsites. His idea is to create a library at the parent site level and... Posted Oct 18 2007, 10:12 AM by End User SharePoint Filed under: External Links, Document Management, Libraries and Lists, Tips and Tricks, consolidate, list, subsite, library, web part

• Screencast series on creating a Document Management Center

  The first five screencasts for creating a Document Management Center are available. The series starts with an introduction and then moves immediately into creating a Document Management Center subsite. A template library is then created to hold customized... Posted Oct 16 2007, 11:50 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Screencast, video, document management center, Document Management, Video On-Demand, Libraries and Lists, subsite, DMC, document libraries

• Creation of a Document Management Center (DMC)

  I am in the process of creating a series of screencasts, documenting the process of creating a simple Document Management Center. This post will serve as a comments area so that users can give feedback on the screencasts as well as to suggest alternatives... Posted Oct 16 2007, 09:02 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Screencast, video, document management center, Latest Projects, Document Management, Video On-Demand, feedback, documents

• Screencast - Local Check In Feature in MS Office

  One of the features in SharePoint that will help with end user buy-in is the ability for them to continue to work in a familiar environment instead of forcing all work to be done within SharePoint. Along these lines, the major applications of MS Office... Posted Oct 16 2007, 12:00 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Office, Screencast, video, Word, excel, Document Management, Video On-Demand, Tips and Tricks, check in, check out, powerpoint