FAQ

What is OneDrive and What is the Purpose?

How do I Learn to Use OneDrive?

Viewing Your Files on Your Computer 

Viewing Your Files on the Internet

How to Search in OneDrive

How to Share a File or Folder link from OneDrive

What is OneDrive and What is the Purpose?

OneDrive is a storage location in the cloud (Hosted by Microsoft) where you can store your documents, and files.

The benefit of using OneDrive, is that you create, edit, and share your documents from one central location. You can start a Word document on your handheld device, and save the file to OneDrive. You can then switch to your computer, open the same file, edit it, and save to OneDrive. Go into a computer lab, open the same file, edit, save, share.

How do I Learn to Use OneDrive?

Follow this link for a OneDrive How-to

Viewing Your Files on Your Computer

• If you have OneDrive enabled on your computer then viewing your files is simple.
• Open the File Explorer.
• Look at the left side of the File Explorer and there should be a OneDrive folder. Click on it to view what it is being synced with OneDrive.

Viewing Your Files on the Internet

• Login to Office.
• Click on the OneDrive icon.
• You can now see all files that are being synced with OneDrive.

Searching OneDrive

• Login to Office.
• Click on the OneDrive icon.
• On the left side of the screen there is a search box, input your search and hit enter

Sharing a File/Folder using OneDrive 

Sometimes files are too large to send through email or are blocked for security reasons. So how do you share a file in this situation? OneDrive provides a solution. When you have files stored on OneDrive, you can share these with people on-campus or off-campus using their email address. This is easy to do, and when you have shared a file, you can revoke the share at any time. To share a file using OneDrive, you can begin the process from within your Outlook email, or you can begin from your OneDrive on the web.