SharePoint Online part 1 Sites, Lists and Libraries

Explore how SharePoint Online uses site collections as top-level containers with a security boundary and dedicated administrators, and how to create one with a template and URL.

Explore the SharePoint Online interface, from the nine-square app launcher and gear menu to global and local navigation, site contents, and document libraries.

Learn how SharePoint organizes sites into a tree of site collections and subsites, implements security, navigation, and templates, and helps you plan, create, and manage these sites.

Add apps to a SharePoint site and explore site contents, including documents library, site assets, and pages, within a top-level team site. Create calendars and task lists to extend collaboration.

Brand a SharePoint site by updating the title, description, logo, and colors. Manage quick launch and top navigation, add headings and links, and preview look before applying.

Explore how to view, edit, and manage tasks in a SharePoint list, using quick edits, saving changes, and creating views, including calendar and filters for due dates.

Delete items from lists or libraries, then manage them in the site and site collection recycle bins, restoring when needed or permanently deleting.

Create a custom list from scratch in SharePoint online using the bookstore example, learn naming with no spaces, URL encoding, add items, and explore basic list settings.

Add columns to a SharePoint list to store book metadata by creating fields and selecting data types such as single line text, date, currency, and number, with validation.

Learn to add advanced columns in SharePoint Online by using lookup lists, choice fields with dropdowns, radio buttons or checkboxes, supporting multi-value and fill-in options, and setting relationship behavior.

Explore how SharePoint views define data layout and filtering across lists, calendars, and completed tasks. Create and edit views, set public visibility, apply sorting, filters, groups, and mobile options.

Add and manage a document library in a SharePoint site. Edit, save automatically in Word Online, and use metadata, views, and versioning.

Add metadata columns and a site column lookup to link documents to a projects list, then create views that group and sort by project in SharePoint Online.

Learn how to delete documents in SharePoint Online, use the recycle bin and second stage recycle bin, and restore items back to their original documents or lists.

Explore how to use metadata from SharePoint in Office documents by editing document properties, leveraging project columns, and inserting dynamic fields via Quick Parts to synchronize values and enable versioning.

Explore how SharePoint version control manages document history with major and minor versions, drafts, and published versions, including viewing, restoring, deleting, and comparing versions.

Enable required checkout and use check-out and check-in to reserve documents, prevent simultaneous edits, and publish major or minor versions; edit in Word or Word Online.

Enable content approval in SharePoint libraries to require review before publishing major versions. Learn how drafts, check-out/in, and the approval workflow move items from pending to approved.

Learn to copy documents between libraries with the copy to or sent to feature, retain links between originals and copies, and set up custom sent-to destinations in library settings.

Define a site column once in site settings and reuse it in lists, libraries, and content types; the update lists option controls propagation, and the lookup type cannot be changed.

Learn how content types in SharePoint define reusable item templates with linked columns and metadata, enabling standardized properties across events, contacts, documents, and pictures.

Create a new expense reports content type based on documents, add site columns like person, project, and amount, and attach it to libraries for reuse across subsites.