| SharePoint 2010 : Assign Users’ Permissions on a Site |
| To allow users to view a site to which they previously didn’t have access, you can either add them to one of the SharePoint groups or add them to the site directly, without adding them to a specific group. The following sections explain how to perform these options.
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| Edit a SharePoint Group’s Settings |
| To change a SharePoint group’s settings, navigate to the site’s People and Groups settings page, as shown earlier in this chapter, and then click the name of the group in the left navigation ba
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| SharePoint 2010 : Use Alerts |
| You can set up alerts that notify you when some changes are made in SharePoint document libraries or lists or on single items.
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| Navigate Through a SharePoint Site |
| Most sites use the navigation ribbon (also known as the Browse ribbon) to show navigation controls on the top of the page—including a top navigation bar and the breadcrumbs. Often there is also a side navigation bar that shows more navigation options on the left of the page.
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| SharePoint 2010 : Change My Display Language |
| Sometimes in multinational organizations there are people who are more comfortable with languages other than English. While your content (documents, list items, and page information) is usually in one language as a standard, you might want to see the menus—the actions you can take—in a language that is more familiar to you.
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| SharePoint 2010 : Change My Regional Settings |
| Depending on the configuration of the site, you might be able to define in that site your own regional settings. Doing this changes the way the site is presented to you, without affecting anyone else viewing the site.
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| SharePoint 2010 : Use the Ribbon |
| The control that allows you to switch between ribbons is usually shown at the top of the page, listing the names of the available ribbons as tabs.
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| Get to a SharePoint Site |
| How you get to a SharePoint site depends on the location of that site. Most often, your system administrator will give you the location. Your company might have several sites, and an administrator should supply you with links to the sites you should be aware of.
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| SharePoint 2010 : View/Add Notes to a Document or List Item |
| In SharePoint Server 2010, you can add notes to a document. These notes are available for other people to read. You can use this feature, for example, to provide feedback on a document without actually changing the document and without having to check out the document or even have editing permissions to the document.
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| SharePoint 2010 : Tag an External Site |
| You find a site that is very useful; however, this site is not hosted in SharePoint, and it’s not even part of your corporate site. You want to be able to find it again using the tagging mechanism. |
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| Microsoft Office 2010 : Using and Customizing the Ribbon |
| An archeologist looking at the evolution of Microsoft Office would no doubt divide its timeline neatly into two eras: The Menu-Toolbar Era lasted from the early 1990s through Office 2003. The emergence of Office 2007 marked the dawn of the Ribbon Era.
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| Microsoft Office 2010 : Saving and Restoring Settings and Data |
| You’ve probably developed a routine for regularly backing up your documents and other files. (If you haven’t, you should!) Without a reliable backup, data you have created or purchased can disappear in an instant due to hardware failure, a power surge, theft, fire, or any of countless other calamities.
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