What Can SharePoint Do for Your Company?

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SharePoint has been around for a long time but wasn’t affordable for small business until recently. Many small businesses are finding SharePoint to be very useful for many things beyond a place to keep your documents. The Modern SharePoint experience has a sleek and streamlined look, which has the look and feel of modern websites. With more and more companies making the move to the cloud, SharePoint has become the main hub where many companies collaborate and communicate.

 

What Are the Parts of SharePoint?

SharePoint can do many things that will help your users find information. SharePoint divides pages into sections called Web Parts, which are small apps or widgets built into the SharePoint page. Each type of web part has a specific function. This blog post and the next will explore the different kinds of web parts available to add to your SharePoint site.

Countdown Clock

The countdown clock can count down or up and can show only days, or days hours minutes and seconds. Practical uses might include how much time until a company event, how many days since the last injury, etc.

countdown clock

 

Document Library

The document library web part is a grouping of files and folders. You can think of a document library as similar to a drive in a server environment.

document library

 

 

Embedded Content

The most popular type of embedded content is video. Your company might want to add training videos or product videos to your SharePoint environment. These can come from online, such as youtube.com, or from Microsoft Stream.

 

Embedded Objects

 

Embedded Documents

Documents created in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or in PDF form can be embedded directly into a SharePoint page.

Embedded Documents

 

Events

Events are any dates that your organization might want to track: holidays, birthdays, company-wide events are all great uses for this web part.

Events

 

Microsoft Forms

You can embed a Microsoft Form directly in a SharePoint page. the form can be filled out in SharePoint without ever leaving the site.

Microsoft Forms

 

Images

SharePoint allows for images to be shown either on their own, in a scrolling carousel, or in a grid.

Images

 

Lists

Lists are a great way for companies to keep track of lists of things. A list could contain contact information, product information, pricing, etc. Lists are very easy to sort and look things up.

Lists

There are many more types of web parts that can be added to your SharePoint site, look for my post next week that will highlight several more!

 

 

About Harbor Computer Services

Harbor Computer Services is an IT firm servicing Southeastern Michigan. We work exclusively under contract with our clients to provide technology direction and either become the IT department or provide assistance to the internal IT they already have. We have won many awards for our work over the years, including the worldwide Microsoft Partner of the Year in 2010. We’re the smallest firm to have ever won this most prestigious award. Most recently we were recognized as one of the top 20 visionaries in small business IT by ChannelPro Magazine (2015). And in 2016 as the top Michigan IT firm for Manufacturing. There are a few simple things that make Harbor Computer Services the best choice for your business. •We are Professionals •We are Responsible •We are Concerned About The Success of Your Business

 

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