Wiley SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies 978-0-470-41342-5 Benutzerhandbuch

In This Chapter

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Using Microsoft SharePoint Services to effectively collaborate

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Understanding the major components of SharePoint 2007 and how they work

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Navigating a SharePoint site with the greatest of ease

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Getting the online SharePoint help you need

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Searching the SharePoint site for information

W

ebster’s dictionary defines collaboration — from the Latin for 
laboring together — first and foremost as “working jointly or together 

especially in an intellectual endeavor.” As you find out in this chapter, 
SharePoint 2007 makes this kind of “working together” especially easy and 
efficient. SharePoint makes it possible for your teams to readily access the 
information they need to make decisions and to share essential ideas and 
feedback.

This chapter begins by describing what exactly SharePoint 2007 is before 
moving on to explaining just a wee bit about how it does its magic. (I cover 
just enough of the magic, mind you, to give you a basic understanding of 
how you and your teams interface with the software in the process of 
collaborating and yet hopefully not enough to overwhelm you by drowning 
you in totally incomprehensible geek speak.) As part and parcel of this 
general introduction to the wondrous workings of SharePoint 2007, I also 
introduce you to each of the major components that make up this very 
versatile software tool.

The chapter then goes on to give you all the information you need on navi-
gating a typical SharePoint site before grounding you in the use of its online 
help system to which, in addition to this nifty reference, you can turn when 
you have questions about using a particular SharePoint feature.