Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 for Office 2007 Users

Chapter 6. Microsoft Office Word 2007

In this chapter, you will be looking at the interaction between Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007. You will look at features on the server that can make life easier when dealing with Word documents, creating and working with SharePoint content types and document properties, and looking at some of the records management features of both Word and SharePoint. You will also return to looking at document libraries, this time in the context of Microsoft Word 2007, and look at SharePoint content type in some detail. It would be a fair guess to say that many of you will interact with SharePoint most of the time by using Microsoft Word 2007 and perhaps Word 2003, so in this chapter only, I will provide some coverage for Word 2003 users. However, it really does hold true that your best experience with SharePoint will be with Microsoft Word 2007. In addition to the standard use of Word to author documents, you will also see how Word integrates with the blogging features of SharePoint, including creating and managing your blog site.

Note

Because of the nature of the next set of chapters, some information may be duplicated. Duplication will be kept to a minimum; however, because Word, Excel, and even Access have some features in common, it is important to see the feature in the context of each application. I should also point out that some of the SharePoint-related menu options such as the Workflow option are only available for those ...