Chapter 10: Collaborating with Other People


Overview

Chapter at a Glance

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Access other people's folders, page 266
Work offline with document library contents, page 272
Connect to a SharePoint calendar, page 274

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Although Microsoft Office Outlook is primarily a personal information management program, it also provides means by which you can share information with other people, whether they are within your organization or external to it. In previous chapters, you learned ways to send finite pieces of information (such as messages, contact cards, and notes) to other people, and ways of incorporating information you receive from other people into your own system. In this chapter, we discuss ways of creating and maintaining real-time connections either to information that is stored in Outlook or to information that is stored on a collaboration site built with Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies.

SharePoint products such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, provide a simple and effective way for team members to share information and collaborate on projects. It is becoming increasingly common for people in disparate locations to work together, with a collaboration site providing a central location to store and distribute information and to manage team processes.

In this chapter, you will first learn how to share an Outlook folder containing calendar, e-mail, or other items with another person. You will learn how to create a document workspace to share a document with other team members, how to work offline with files that are stored in a document library, and how to view and update a calendar created as part of a collaboration site, all from within Outlook.

See Also Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Quick Reference entries on pages xxxvii–lxv.

Important 

The exercises in this chapter require only practice files created in earlier chapters; none are supplied on the book's companion CD. For information about practice files, see "Using the Book's CD" on page xxv.

Troubleshooting 

Graphics and operating system-related instructions in this book reflect the Windows Vista user interface. If your computer is running Microsoft Windows XP and you experience trouble following the instructions as written, please refer to the "Information for Readers Running Windows XP" section at the beginning of this book.




Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Step by Step
The Time Management Toolkit: MicrosoftВ® Office OutlookВ® 2007 Step by Step and Take Back Your Life (Step By Step (Microsoft))
ISBN: 0735625840
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 137

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