SharePoint 2013 Complete Guide

Discover how SharePoint functions as a database and development platform to share, organize, discover, build, and manage information through intranets, document management, workflows, and powerful search.

Explore the SharePoint environment by identifying the suite bar, quick launch, top links, and web parts; learn how publishing features switch navigation to global and current navigation.

Explore SharePoint terminology and architecture, from the farm and web applications to site collections, top-level sites, subsites, lists and libraries (apps), features, and security trimming.

Learn to read, add, edit, and delete documents in SharePoint 2013 document libraries, manage metadata, versioning, and check out/in, and configure open options, uploads, drag-and-drop, and recycle bin restoration.

Explore how metadata labels about data enhances SharePoint document libraries, using columns like manager and status to categorize expense reports, enable views, filtering, and quick searching without opening files.

Learn to manage check out and check in, enable major or major and minor versioning, and use version history to track drafts and published documents in SharePoint libraries.

Set alerts on lists and libraries to receive email or RSS notifications for changes, with options for item-level or library-wide alerts and change types and immediate, daily, or weekly frequencies.

Learn how to create libraries and lists in SharePoint, including picture libraries, custom lists, surveys, and importing spreadsheets. Manage library settings, versioning, and metadata to organize content.

Create and customize a SharePoint 2013 survey with choices, rating scales, yes/no checks, and branching logic; view responses and graphs, while noting no anonymous surveys and limited export.

Create a custom list from scratch in SharePoint 2013, adding food item, servings, and allergy comments. Rename the title column and use quick edit for efficient data entry.

Import a spreadsheet into a SharePoint list by preparing data as a table, selecting table or range during import, and setting data types like dates and currency.

Explore how workflows automate document processes in SharePoint 2013, from starting a manual or automatic workflow to assigning tasks, tracking progress, and handling sequential or parallel approvals.

Attach a state-based expense approval workflow to a SharePoint list to automatically notify the manager and progress through new, approved, and paid states with task lists and history tracking.

Explore creating and customizing SharePoint 2013 views, including standard, calendar, Gantt, access, and map views. Tune columns, ordering, filtering, sorting, grouping, totals, and decide between personal, public, and mobile views.

Create a calendar view from a date list in SharePoint to display vacations by start and end dates, choose month, week, or day view, and switch back to the list.

Explore SharePoint 2013 social networking features by managing My Sites and following sites, and using the Newsfeed. Learn to share documents via OneDrive for business, control permissions, and enable versioning.

Learn how to edit and enhance your SharePoint 2013 profile with an about me section, upload a picture, manage contact details, and control visibility across sites.

Discover how the newsfeed centralizes information from followed sites and people, enables posts and conversations with mentions and hashtags, and reveals two tagging systems in feeds and notes.

Discover how SharePoint indexes content from multiple locations into a central front end for searching documents, sites, and people, with refiners and security-trimmed results.

Learn to create a subsite within a site collection, choose a template, and set permissions and navigation. Manage getting started tiles and site features to customize the new subsite.

Change a SharePoint 2013 site's appearance by selecting themes, adjusting colors, backgrounds, fonts, and logos, and tweaking page layouts and site settings.

Learn to create and edit pages in SharePoint 2013, using wiki links, site pages library, and various layouts, with publishing features, checkout and publish workflows.

Explore how to add, edit, and configure web parts on SharePoint pages, including list and library based parts, picture library slideshows, and view linked behavior.