Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step

Creating a New Folder in a Library

When numerous documents exist in a library, you can create a new folder to help organize the documents in a more efficient way.

Tip

Windows SharePoint Services provides other mechanisms for organization, such as views and filters. However, people are often most familiar with folders and thus find it easier to create a folder structure.

In this exercise, you will create a folder for documents classified as In-Progress so that they can be differentiated from completed documents.

Note

OPEN the SharePoint site that you’d like to use to add a folder to a document library. If prompted, type your user name and password, and then click OK.

BE SURE TO verify that you have sufficient permissions to create a folder in the document ...