Uploading documents to a library
SharePoint lets you create new documents directly within a library through the New menu. It also lets you upload documents that have been authored offline.
In this recipe, we are going to learn how to upload an existing document to a document library and then associate metadata to it. Even though this recipe uses the Marketing Collateral library, which we previously created as an example, the steps here work for any SharePoint library.
Getting ready
You will need Contribute permissions or higher to the library where you would like to upload the document. You will usually have this permission if you are part of the Site owners or Site members groups for the site containing the library.
How to do it...
Here’s how to upload a document to your document library:
- Browse to the library where you’d like to upload the document.
- Click Upload and then choose the Files option to open the file selection dialog...