Chapter 1

Up and Running on OneDrive

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting into OneDrive

Bullet Creating, navigating, renaming, and deleting folders

Bullet Uploading and downloading files to and from OneDrive

Bullet Managing files at OneDrive

This chapter introduces you to OneDrive, the Office 365 online facility for storing files, sharing files, and co-editing files with other people. It describes how to sign in and out of OneDrive so that you can get to your OneDrive folders. You also discover how to navigate in OneDrive, manage folders, and upload and download files from your computer to OneDrive. Finally, this chapter shows how to open, delete, and move a file you store at OneDrive.

This chapter describes how to store and share files with OneDrive, a Microsoft website, but you can also store and share files using a software product called SharePoint. With SharePoint, files are maintained on a local network. They are kept on a server that is owned and operated by a company. Chapters 3 and 4 of this minibook describe how to share files with SharePoint.

Signing in to OneDrive

OneDrive is a component of Office ...

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