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Connect your document library to Windows Explorer
SharePoint allows you to connect document libraries
directly to Windows Explorer, thus enabling the familiar
drag-and-drop functionality between folders. This is
available only for users of Internet Explorer.
To connect your library to Windows Explorer:
- Open Internet Explorer and navigate to your document library in SharePoint.
- Click on the arrow next to the
Site Actions button (located near the
top-right corner) to open the drop-down menu and select
Open with Windows Explorer.
- If you are prompted with a new authentication box, enter your login credentials again to open the list in Windows Explorer. You will now be able to drag and drop documents directly into your library.
How-tos
- Access a SharePoint site
- Add an event to your SharePoint calendar
- Add a user to your SharePoint site
- Apply site themes in SharePoint
- Assign user permissions in SharePoint
- Break permission inheritance on a list or library
- Change the icon beside your SharePoint site title
- Connect your document library to Windows Explorer
- Create a new SharePoint calendar
- Create a new SharePoint group and assign permissions
- Create series items in a SharePoint meeting space
- Customize the default SharePoint calendar
- Customize the Quick Launch menu
- Customize the top link bar
- Edit permission assignments on permission levels
- Hierarchy and inheritance
- Inherit permissions for an item
- Introduction to SharePoint
- Manage permissions and security in SharePoint
- Open and edit a file in SharePoint
- Open a SharePoint calendar with Outlook
- Permission levels and types in SharePoint
- Recover deleted items
- Remove user permissions
- SharePoint list views
- SharePoint training sessions
- Show or hide tree view
- Using the Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint
- Versioning in SharePoint
- View permissions for users and SharePoint groups
- Working with SharePoint Calendars
