Martin WP Reid (Belfast, Ireland) is an analyst for The Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author and technical editor of more than a dozen technical books. He is a regular contributor to the Microsoft Office SharePoint blog Get the Point (http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/getthepoint )

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is a wildly popular server product that offers an amazing opportunity to change the way you work. Paired with Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint allows you to share and collaborate on Word, PowerPoint, Access, and Excel documents and databases; organize workflows; integrate Office documents with business applications; search across all types of documents and data; and provide these tools internally and externally on web sites for end users.

This book is a unique resource that walks you through a potentially overwhelming array of features and clearly shows you how to effectively use the SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007 integration features. You''ll begin with a review of SharePoint, then look at how it works and discover exactly what is available within SharePoint. You''ll examine SharePoint''s integration with Office—a topic that is not readily available on the bookshelf. Plus, valuable examples and succinct explanations used throughout the book can be easily applied in real-world situations and will help you take advantage of the extensive features of SharePoint and Office.

What you will learn from this book

• How lists and libraries are created and managed and how to create custom lists of your own

• The basic building blocks of SharePoint web sites: Web Parts

• How the My Site feature in SharePoint helps you create your own personal SharePoint sites

• Methods for publishing documents to a Team Site and how to create and manage metadata associated with your documents

• The integration between SharePoint® 2007 and Access® 2007, Outlook® 2007, Excel® 2007, and Office Groove® 2007

• Ways records management can be used in day-to-day projects

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone using Microsoft SharePoint who wants to learn to leverage SharePoint with Office 2007.

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Martin W. P. Reid is an analyst for The Queens University in Belfast, one of the leading universities in the United Kingdom. Martin is currently working on a large MOSS 2007 project reaching almost 30,000 users. Previously he worked with end users teaching Microsoft Office applications, database design, programming, and web development. Martin contributes frequently to the Microsoft Office SharePoint blog Get the Point (http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/getthepoint).