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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook A complete guide to Microsoft Office 365 apps including SharePoint, Power Platform, Copilot and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243177
Length 640 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Scott Brewster Scott Brewster
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Gaurav Mahajan Gaurav Mahajan
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Sudeep Ghatak Sudeep Ghatak
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Nate Chamberlain Nate Chamberlain
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Overview of Microsoft 365 FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to SharePoint Online 3. Modern Sites in SharePoint Online 4. Lists and Libraries in SharePoint Online 5. Document Management in SharePoint Online 6. OneDrive 7. Microsoft Teams 8. Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) 9. Creating Power Apps 10. Applying Power Apps 11. Power BI 12. Overview of Copilot in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform 13. Other Books You May Enjoy
14. Index

Viewing and editing documents in the client

In addition to the ability to view and edit documents in the browser, SharePoint also lets you view and edit online documents in the corresponding desktop applications. There are two ways to open an online document in the desktop app:

  • Browse to the library and then open the document from there.
  • Directly open an online document from the app.

In this recipe, we will see how to use both methods to view and edit a document that was uploaded to a SharePoint library in the corresponding desktop application.

Getting ready

You will need Read permissions or higher on the document which you'd like to view, and Contribute permissions or higher on it if you'd like to edit it. Alternately, you will need to be at least a Site Visitor to view documents and a Site Member or Site Owner to edit them.

How to do it...

To open the online document from a library, follow these steps:

  • Browse to the library that contains the document which you would...
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