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features that have been activated at the site collection level. Sometimes, it is referred to as the child site, whereas the top-level site is called the parent site.
To create a subsite, first go to your main SharePoint site by clicking the waffle icon and selecting SharePoint (not the Site Collection Admin interface mentioned earlier but the SharePoint site itself), and follow these steps:
1. GotoSiteActions(gearicon) ➪ SiteContents. The site contents page appears.
2. SelecttheNewdrop-downmenuintheribbonandclickSubsite.
3. EnterthetitleofyoursiteintheTitleboxandentertheURLforyoursite in the box below it if you want a URL different from the title and then select a template.
4. CompletetherestofthesettingsasneededandthenclickCreate. After the request is processed, you are taken to your new site.
About content and content types
One of the many cool features SharePoint Online offers is not only the ability for users to upload documents, but also to create a new Word document right from the document library by clicking Documents from the Library Tools on the ribbon and then clicking New. This action opens a new blank document in Microsoft Word that will be saved online after you give it a filename.
What most new SharePoint users don’t know is that you can actually “upload” a link to a document in another library or create new Microsoft Office documents other than Word. In the case of the former, this eliminates duplicate documents that could become a nightmare to sync. For the latter, it streamlines creation of form-based documents.
Uploading a link instead of a file is made possible by SharePoint content and con- tent types features. Think of content as the Word document you uploaded or the new file you created from the document library. The way you defined the settings for your documents is the content type. The geek way of defining content type according to Microsoft TechNet is covered in the next two sections describing scenarios that you’re likely to encounter.
Keeping one version of a document in multiple sites
Suppose you manage two separate SharePoint sites and you have a document you want to share between the two sites. If you create two documents to upload one for each site, you have to update two documents when something changes.
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