SharePoint Server 2013 Help

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Popular SharePoint Server 2013 topics

Get started with SharePoint

Troubleshooting issues in SharePoint

Not getting the search results you’re looking for in SharePoint?

SharePoint 2013 Training

Edit permissions for a list or library

Manage large lists and libraries in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016

Create a folder in a document library

Get started or troubleshoot SharePoint and OneDrive

Get started

  • Get started with SharePoint

  • OneDrive training

  • SharePoint training

Troubleshoot problems

  • Troubleshooting issues in SharePoint

  • Fix problems opening documents in SharePoint libraries

  • Types of files that cannot be added to a list or library

  • View diagnostic logs in SharePoint 2013

  • Fix OneDrive for Business sync problems

What's new and what's discontinued

  • What’s new in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

  • Discontinued features and modified functionality in Microsoft SharePoint 2013

Create or manage SharePoint sites

Plan and create sites or subsites

  • Introduction to sites, workspaces, and pages

  • Using templates to create different kinds of SharePoint sites

  • Create a new subsite in a different language

Create, delete, or customize team sites

  • Best practices for creating and managing team sites

  • Use a template to create a team site

  • Delete a team site

  • Customize your team site

  • Customize the navigation on your team site

Manage site collections

  • Enable or disable site collection features

  • Manage the Recycle Bin of a SharePoint site

  • Upgrade a site collection

  • Configure audit settings for a site collection

  • Manage site collections and global settings in the SharePoint admin center

Manage sites and subsites

  • Introduction to multilingual features

  • Change regional settings for a site

  • Choose the languages you want to make available for a site’s user interface

  • Create a new subsite in a different language

  • Delete a site, team site, or subsite in Office 365

Monitor and maintain sites

  • Configure audit settings for a site collection

  • View audit log reports

  • Overview of monitoring in SharePoint 2013

Plan and create a project site

  • Get started with a project site

  • Create a project site

Enable mobile users

  • Create device channels in SharePoint 2013

  • Configure a SharePoint site for mobile devices

  • Use a mobile device to work with SharePoint Online sites

Accessibility

  • Accessibility features in SharePoint products

  • Keyboard shortcuts for SharePoint products

Lists, libraries, surveys, and content

Creating and using lists and libraries

  • Training: Introduction to document libraries

  • Introduction to libraries

  • Introduction to lists

  • Training: Start using a list

  • Training: Create and set up a list

  • Create a list in SharePoint

  • Delete a list in SharePoint

  • Add, move, minimize, or delete a Web Part from a page

Create files and folders in a list or library

  • Upload, create, or delete files in a library

  • Create a folder in a document library

  • Delete a file, folder, or link from a SharePoint document library

  • Create a folder in a list

  • Delete a folder in a list

  • Add, edit, or delete list items

  • Types of files that cannot be added to a list or library

Add, edit, and use columns

  • Training: Create and set up a list / Add a column to a list or library

  • Create a column in a list or library

  • Create and update an external data column in a list or library

Add, edit, and use views

  • Video: Create a personal view of a list or library

  • Training: Create and set up a list / Create and edit public views of a list or library

  • Create, change, or delete a view of a list or library

  • Use the List View Web Part

Versioning, check-in and check-out

  • Enable and configure versioning for a list or library

  • How does versioning work in a list or library?

  • View, restore, or delete a previous version of a file or item

  • Set up a library to require check-out of files

  • Check out, check in, or discard changes to files in a library

  • Upload files to a library

Add images, audio, or video to a page or Asset Library

  • Set up an Asset Library to store image, audio, or video files

  • Add video or audio to a page

  • Upload video, audio, or pictures to an Asset Library

Create and use content types

  • Introduction to content types and content type publishing

  • Create or customize a content type

  • Turn on support for multiple content types in a list or library

  • Publish a content type from a content publishing hub

  • Add publishing columns to content types, lists, or libraries

Work with external data

  • Introduction to external data

  • Create an external list

  • Differences between native and external lists

  • Create and update an external data column in a list or library

  • Use the Business Data Web Parts

  • Use an external list with Visio

  • Use external data with Access

  • Connect an external list to Outlook

Create and edit surveys

  • Create a survey

  • Add branching logic to a survey

  • Change an existing survey

Sync files and folders in document libraries

  • Restrictions and limitations when you sync SharePoint libraries to your computer through OneDrive for Business

  • Update the OneDrive for Business sync app

  • Set up your computer to sync SharePoint files or OneDrive for Business files when you’re not using Office 365

Search for data and documents

Search your data

  • Search tips

  • Configure a Content Search Web Part in SharePoint

eDiscovery for your content

  • Video: Learn about eDiscovery in Office 365

  • Plan and manage eDiscovery cases

  • Place content sources on hold and add content to an eDiscovery case

  • Create and run eDiscovery queries

  • Searching and using keywords in eDiscovery

  • Export eDiscovery content and create reports

Use managed metadata and terms for easier searching

  • Introduction to managed metadata

  • Set up a new term set

  • Create and manage terms in a term set

  • Set up metadata navigation for a list or library

  • Create a managed metadata column

Set permissions, share files and co-author documents

Plan, create, and edit permissions

  • Understanding permission levels in SharePoint

  • Plan your permissions strategy

  • What is permissions inheritance?

  • Understanding SharePoint groups

  • Default SharePoint groups in SharePoint Server

  • How to create and edit Permission Levels

  • Edit permissions for a list, library, or individual item

  • What is uniquely secured content?

  • Set up and manage access requests

Share files, documents, and ideas

  • Share ideas, sites, and content

  • Share documents or folders in OneDrive for Business

  • Schedule events and milestones with a calendar

  • Share sites or documents with people outside your organization

Use co-authoring for better collaboration

  • Document collaboration and co-authoring

  • Share your document in Word 2016 for Windows

  • Share a document using SharePoint or OneDrive

Communities, blogs, wikis, feeds, and alerts

Communicate with blogs and wikis

  • Create and edit a wiki

  • Training: Create and manage a blog to share information

Join or create a community

  • Create a community

  • Moderate a community

  • Join a community

  • Create a community portal

  • Join a discussion

Create Alerts and feeds to track your content

  • Create an alert or subscribe to an RSS feed

  • Manage, view, or delete SharePoint alerts

Manage and automate processes with workflows

Automate processes with workflows

  • About the workflows included with SharePoint

  • All about Approval workflows

  • All about Collect Feedback workflows

  • All about Collect Signatures workflows

  • Complete a workflow task

  • Use a Three-state workflow

  • Work with a publishing approval workflow

  • Require approval of items in a site list or library

Manage approval workflow and publishing sites

  • Work with a publishing approval workflow

  • About publishing-enabled site templates

  • Enable publishing features

Organize records, documents, and catalogs

Organizing lists and libraries

  • Manage lists and libraries with many items

  • Add a ratings feature to your library

  • Send an email or copy the link of a library file or list item

  • Organize documents and sites in Office 365

Use Document Sets and IDs

  • Introduction to Document Sets

  • Activate and configure Document IDs in a site collection

Store and manage records

  • Choose how to store and manage records

  • Configuring in place records management

  • Implement Records Management

  • Create a Records Center

Activate and use cross-site publishing to enable library or lists as catalogs

  • Activate the Cross-Site Publishing feature in SharePoint

  • Overview of cross-site publishing in SharePoint Server 2013

Use Excel Services and Power Pivot

Excel Services

  • Business intelligence capabilities in Excel Services

  • Create reports, scorecards, and dashboards by using Excel Services

  • Use the Business Data Web Parts

Advanced data modeling with Power Pivot

  • Get started with Power Pivot for Excel 2013

  • Power View and Power Pivot videos

  • Upgrade Power Pivot Data Models to Excel 2013 or Excel 2016

  • How Power Query and Power Pivot work together

Add, buy, and manage apps

  • Buy an app from the SharePoint Store

  • Add an app to a site

  • Remove an app from a site

  • Add an App Part to a page

  • Manage app licenses

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