E-mailing a link to a document in SharePoint

SharePoint document libraries provide a great alternative to e-mailing documents around. If you want someone else to read a document, just e-mail them a link instead. This recipe shows you how.

Getting ready

This recipe works for:

• SharePoint 2010 Foundation

• SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition

• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition

• Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

You will need a SharePoint site with a document library containing a document that you wish to e-mail a link to. This recipe uses a SharePoint 2010 Team Site for illustration.

You will need the Read permission level to run this recipe.

You will need Outlook 2010 installed on your machine.

How to do it...

1. Open the SharePoint Team Site containing the document you want to send the link to.

2. Open the Shared Documents link in the Quick Launch menu.

3. Select the Documents tab in the Library Tools ribbon.

4. Click on the checkbox for the document that you want to e-mail links for.

5. Click on the E-mail a Link icon in the...