Office and Share Point 2010 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word

Chapter 4. Using Your Document Library with Microsoft Office

Chapter 1 showed you how to use Microsoft Word with your SharePoint document library. However, SharePoint does not limit you to Word documents. You can store other Microsoft Office document types in your document library including Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Furthermore, SharePoint does not limit you to Microsoft Office tools. You can store almost anything in SharePoint, with the only limitation being that the applications they depend on may not integrate with SharePoint as well as Office does.

However, because of SharePoint's enhanced integration with Office 2010, most of the discussion from this point forward focus on Office 2010 unless otherwise stated. Note that most features ...