Here is the PowerPoint for the presentation that I gave on 2/4/2013 at the Reston SharePoint User Group (http://www.meetup.com/Reston-SharePoint-User-Group/): Take SharePoint to the Next Level with Just a Browser! On average, it’s common for people to use just 10% of the power of SharePoint. Did you know that with just your browser, you can do a substantial amount of customization to help meet your needs? This session focuses on practical things you can do to help automate/collaborate/share/visualize your data, information, and documents more effectively. Demos will emphasize real world scenarios, tips, strategies, and advanced configuration of SharePoint from a site owner’s point of view. Make SharePoint work for you. Come see what you are missing! Please follow me on my blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alex_randall/) or Twitter (@alex_randall_). Thanks!

1. Take SharePoint to
the Next Level with
Just a Browser!
Alex Randall
Microsoft

2. Agenda
Take
SharePoint to
“Let’s make this team site better!”
the Next Level
with Just a
Browser! • DEMO: Document Library/List
Settings
• DEMO: Metadata Strategies
• DEMO: Lookup Lists
• DEMO: List Views
• DEMO: Pages and Web Parts

3. About the demos…
Take
SharePoint to
the Next Level
with Just a
Browser!
SharePoint 2013

5. What did we just learn?
Take
SharePoint to Document Library/List Settings
the Next Level
with Just a
Browser!
• Versioning
• Checkin/check out
• Folders
• Many more…

7. What did we just learn?
Take Metadata Strategies
SharePoint to
the Next Level
with Just a • New Column = “something I want to
Browser!
search, report, sort, or filter on”
• Columns can be required or optional
• “Choice” columns = “precanned”
responses.
• Much more…

9. What did we just learn?
Take Lookup Lists
SharePoint to
the Next Level
• A custom list that can power drop
with Just a
Browser! downs/radio buttons in other lists
• “Lookup Column” is the data type that point
to a Lookup List
• Use a Lookup List for data that changes
often
• Use Choice columns for simple data that
doesn’t change much

11. What did we just learn?
Take List Views
SharePoint to
the Next Level
• Light predefined reports/visualizations of
with Just a
Browser! that list’s data
• Hide/Show/Order Columns
• Define filters
• Define default sort
• Can turn on/off grouping
• Many more options…

13. What did we just learn?
Take Pages and Web Parts
SharePoint to
the Next Level
with Just a
• You have full control as what’s on the page
Browser! (text content and Web Parts)
• Lots of built-in Web Parts to add to your
pages
• List views can go on your page too
• Each Web Part has settings that you can
tweak
• If you know HTML/JavaScript, you can add
whatever you want to the page

15. Key Takeaways from this Session
• There are LOTS of things you can do
Take with just a browser in SharePoint!
SharePoint to
the Next Level • Don’t be afraid to try things!
with Just a
Browser! • Customize SharePoint to make it work
for you and your team
• Recommended customization
approach:
1) tweak a single setting
2) test that change

16. My blog:
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with Just a
Browser!
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