Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

The Basics of Saving a Word Document to a SharePoint Document Library

Users and administrators alike will want to become very familiar with the process of using Word in conjunction with SharePoint 2010 document libraries. Previous chapters have dealt in detail with the tools available in document libraries that provide users with a wide range of ways to interact with and manage their documents, specifically Chapter 19, “Using Libraries and Lists in SharePoint 2010.” Although it might be somewhat repetitive, this section covers the basic steps a user needs to follow to create a new document in a document library and then populate the metadata fields and save the document.

In this example, the user has created a new document from a SharePoint ...