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In this article

Getting Started

Accessibility

Share

Newsfeeds

OneDrive for Business

Share content and ideas

Mobile

Co-authoring

Blogs and wikis

Community

Surveys and discussion boards

Organize

Team sites

Keep projects on track

Keep track of your content

Lists and libraries

Manage enterprise content

Manage records

Discover

Insights

Search

Build

Public Website

Manage publishing sites

Work with external data

Apps

Manage

SharePoint Online admin center

eDiscovery

Manage site collections

Manage sites

Permissions

Monitor and maintain sites

Getting Started

• What's new in Microsoft SharePoint Online

• Discontinued features and modified functionality in Microsoft SharePoint 2013

• Get started with SharePoint

• SharePoint Online Planning Guide for Office 365 for business

Accessibility

• Accessibility features in SharePoint products

• Keyboard shortcuts for SharePoint products

• Accessibility features in Office Online

• Accessibility in Office 365

Share

Newsfeeds

• Post something to everyone

• Post something to a small group of people

• Add features to a newsfeed post

• What items appear in your newsfeed?

• Follow people to keep track of their activities

OneDrive for Business

• What is OneDrive for Business?

• Organize your documents and sites

• Manage document privacy

• Follow documents to track them

• Manage document versions in your OneDrive for Business library

• Document collaboration and co-authoring

• Sync a library to your computer

Share content and ideas

• Share ideas, sites, and content

• Share documents or folders in OneDrive for Business

• Share sites or documents with people outside your organization

Mobile

• Share documents by using a mobile device

• Use a mobile device to work with SharePoint Online sites

Co-authoring

• Document collaboration and co-authoring

Blogs and wikis

• Create and edit a wiki

• Video: Create a blog

Community

• Create a community

• Moderate a community

• Join a community

• Create a community portal

Surveys and discussion boards

• Join a discussion

• Create a survey

• Add branching logic to a survey

Organize

Team sites

• Best practices for creating and managing team sites

• Delete a site

• Customize your team site

• Customize the navigation on your team site

Keep projects on track

• Get started with a project site

Keep track of your content

• Create an alert or subscribe to an RSS feed

Lists and libraries

• Training: Introduction to document libraries

• Introduction to libraries

• Training: Start using a list

• Training: Create and set up a list

• Introduction to lists

• Add, edit, or delete list items

• Create a folder in a document library

• Delete a file, folder, or link from a SharePoint document library

• Create a folder in a list

• Delete a folder in a list

• Upload, create, or delete files in a library

• Add, change, or delete a list or library on a page

• Manage lists and libraries with many items

• Add a ratings feature to your library

• Send an email or copy the link of a library file or list item

• Types of files that cannot be added to a list or library

Columns

• Video: Add a column to a list or library

• Create, change, or delete a column in a list or library

• Create and update an external data column in a list or library

Views

• Video: Create a personal view of a list or library

• Video: Create and edit public views of a list or library

• Create, change, or delete a view of a list or library

Manage enterprise content

Versioning, check-in and check-out

• How does versioning work in a list or library?

• Set up a library to require check-out of files

• Check out, check in, or discard changes to files in a library

• View, restore, or delete a previous version of a file or item

Document Sets

• Introduction to Document Sets

Digital Assets

• Set up an Asset Library to store image, audio, or video files

• Add video or audio to a page

• Upload video, audio, or pictures to an Asset Library

Document IDs

• Activate and configure Document IDs in a site collection

Content Types

• Introduction to content types and content type publishing

• Create or customize a content type

• Turn on support for multiple content types in a list or library

• Publish a content type from a content publishing hub

• Add publishing columns to content types, lists, or libraries

Managed metadata

• Introduction to managed metadata

• Set up a new term set

• Create and manage terms in a term set

• Set up metadata navigation for a list or library

• Create a managed metadata column

• Work with multi-lingual term sets

Manage records

• Choose how to store and manage records

• Configuring in place records management

Discover

Insights

Excel Services

• Business intelligence capabilities in Excel Services

• Create reports, scorecards, and dashboards by using Excel Services

PowerPivot

• Get started with PowerPivot for Excel 2013

• What's new in PowerPivot in Excel 2013

Power View

• Power View in Excel in SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online in Office 365

Search

• SharePoint Online search administration overview

• Manage the Search Center in SharePoint Online

• Specify search settings for a site collection or a site

• Search tips

Build

Web Parts

• Add, move, minimize, or delete a Web Part from a page

• Use the List View Web Part

• Use the Business Data Web Parts

Public Website

Note: The SharePoint Online Public Website information in this article only applies if your organization purchased Office 365 prior to March 9, 2015.

• Public Website help and learning

Manage publishing sites

• Features enabled in a SharePoint Online publishing site

• Work with a publishing approval workflow

• About publishing-enabled site templates

• Enable publishing features

Work with external data

For topics about configuring Business Connectivity Services and Secure Store, see Find content about the SharePoint Online admin center

• Introduction to external data

• Create an external list

• Differences between native and external lists

• Create and update an external data column in a list or library

• Use the Business Data Web Parts

• Use an external list with Visio

• Use external data with Access

Workflows

• About the workflows included with SharePoint

• All about Approval workflows

• All about Collect Feedback workflows

• All about Collect Signatures workflows

• Complete a workflow task

• Use a Three-state workflow

• Work with a publishing approval workflow

• Require approval of items in a site list or library

Apps

• Buy an app from the SharePoint Store

• Add an app to a site

• Remove an app from a site

• Add an App Part to a page

• Manage app licenses

• Use the App Catalog to make custom business apps available for your SharePoint Online environment

Manage

SharePoint Online admin center

• Find content about the SharePoint Online admin center

• Video: Getting started with the SharePoint admin center

• Hybrid for SharePoint Server 2013

• Introduction to the SharePoint Online Management Shell

• Set up the SharePoint Online Management Shell environment

eDiscovery

• Plan and manage eDiscovery cases

• Place content sources on hold and add content to an eDiscovery case

• Create and run eDiscovery queries

• Searching and using keywords in eDiscovery

• Export eDiscovery content and create reports

Manage site collections

• Enable or disable site collection features

• Let users create their own team sites

• Manage the Recycle Bin of a SharePoint site

• Restore a deleted site collection

• Upgrade a site collection

• Configure audit settings for a site collection

Manage sites

• Introduction to multilingual features

• Change regional settings for a site

• Choose the languages you want to make available for a site's user interface

• Create a new subsite in a different language

Permissions

• Understanding permission levels in SharePoint

• Plan your permissions strategy

• What is permissions inheritance?

• Understanding SharePoint groups

• Default SharePoint Groups in SharePoint Online

• Edit, create, and delete permission levels

• Edit permissions for a list, library, or individual item

• What is uniquely secured content?

• Set up and manage access requests

Monitor and maintain sites

• View audit log reports