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

Chapter 1

File Sharing and Collaborating

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding the differences between OneDrive and SharePoint

Syncing your files for offline access

Editing files in the browser versus desktop Office apps

Keeping track of a file’s version history

These days, many people don’t just create documents and presentations in the Office 365 applications. Those Word documents, PowerPoint slides, and Publisher files need to live somewhere so that you and others can draft them, request outside input, send them for review, frantically update them with colleagues at 4:55 p.m. on a Friday, and ultimately finalize them for posting, submitting, or wherever your works of art need to end up.

There are a bunch of good reasons for storing and collaborating on files in the cloud: cloud storage is plentiful and cheap; you can edit certain files simultaneously with others; you can’t lose them if your computer is destroyed in a fire; you get version history on files so that you can restore old ones; and you can easily share files with others on a whim, including people external to your organization. ...