Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4

Organizing Your Files in Teams

IN THIS CHAPTER

Getting to your files

Creating, sharing, and organizing files

Understanding how Teams uses SharePoint and OneDrive to store and share files

Sharing in channels and private chats

Teams wouldn’t be the hub for modern work if it was meant only for chat and meetings. Creating, editing, reviewing, and collaborating on files is a major aspect of workplace and educational settings. Some people feel like all they ever do is create files and pass them on. Teams is great for creating, sharing, editing, and accessing most or all of your Office 365 files, especially Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and OneNote notebooks. But you can also save and access PDFs, images, video, and pretty much any other file type you can imagine in Teams (or the tool behind the scenes, SharePoint, which actually stores those files).

This chapter takes you through the files experience in Teams: creating, organizing, and sharing them. To understand collaborating on files in SharePoint and OneDrive outside the Teams app, see Book ...