Navigating a SharePoint Home Page
Windows SharePoint Services eliminates clutter by helping to ensure that each SharePoint site user sees only the parts of the site that he or she has access to.
If you have access to multiple sites, you access them from the navigation bar at the top. Various options are available from the home page:
- Quick Launch—Access document libraries and lists from the Quick Launch bar on the left side of the window. You can add any items you like to the Quick Launch bar, including text and images.
- Search—Locate specific items by using the site-wide Search function.
- Web Parts—Various types of information such as announcements, calendars, links, and discussion boards are presented on the home page in Web Parts or subsections. The SharePoint site administrator can format and position each Web Part without affecting its content.
- Document Libraries—You can share many types of files such as Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations (collectively referred to as documents) with team members by adding them to a SharePoint document library. You can add existing documents or create new documents from within a document library.
Each document library supports the creation of one or more types of document. Documents you create from within a document library are automatically added to it. You specify the default document type while creating the document library. If your team uses custom document templates, you can also make these available from the document library.
To create a new document from within a SharePoint document library, simply select the type of document you want to create from the New menu.
