SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide

Chapter 17. Creating, Editing, and Managing Word Documents with SharePoint

Introduction

MOSS 2007 integrates with Microsoft Word 2007 and other Microsoft Office Suite applications in a variety of ways. The primary interface to Word documents in SharePoint is through Document Workspaces and libraries.

Tip

See Chapter 9 for more details on those document management tools.

Typically, Word is used for writing reports, documenting best practices, recording procedures, and creating other text-based documents. Often a group or a team collaborates to create a single document. SharePoint allows workgroups to create, share, and modify a single Word document through a portal site. SharePoint and Microsoft Word 2007 work together by:

• Sharing Word documents with a specific team in a SharePoint Document Workspace.

• Storing Word documents in a document library, either placing all documents in one library or creating types of document libraries based on content, team, or team location.

• Controlling versioning of documents in document libraries.

• Assigning specific tasks on a document to team members.

• Creating email alerts for team members, and notifying them when a document has been created or modified.

• Creating and modifying a web page from a Word document using document-to-page converter tools.

The following list shows the main topics covered in this chapter:

• Content types and document libraries

• Manage document library workflow

• SharePoint, Word 2007, and collaboration