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The following are questions we have answered for our clients.

Share your knowledge in a Wiki

SharePoint is all about collaboration, and for National Learning at Work day we encouraged you to share useful computer tips with your colleagues. You can create a searchable library of useful facts in SharePoint by creating a Wiki.

A Wiki is a website where users can edit any page, and create links to existing pages, or new ones. In a business environment it can provide an easy and effective way to record knowledge.

To create a Wiki, click on View all site content, then Create, then select Wiki Page Library. You will be asked to give your Wiki a name and description, and specify whether it should appear on the Quick Launch bar.

Once you have created your Wiki, its Home page will have a link to a page called How to Use this Site.

The most important detail to learn is how to create links. If you want to create a link to an existing page in the Wiki, type the page name in double square brackets, for example [[Home]]. If you want to link to a new page, create the link, for example [[How to show all Wiki pages]], then when you OK your changes to the page you are on, a link with a dotted underline is created. When a user clicks this link they will be invited to create the new page.

Correct website address

The easiest way to get a website link correct is to open the website, copy the address from the address bar and then paste it into the URL field

Link to a file in LiveLink

When linking to a file in LiveLink, right click on the file and select “Copy Shortcut” from the menu – you can then past this into the hyperlink field in SharePoint

Separate email addresses

When adding more than one person to Send an Alert to, separate their email addresses with a semi colon

 

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