Using the Task Pane | SharePoint Tutorial pdf

Using the Task Pane

When working with documents from SharePoint, Office enables the Document Management task pane (Figure 1) which lists information about the documents in the library and provides quick access to alerts, document versions, and other features.
To display the Document Management task pane in Office 2007:
· Open an Office document from SharePoint and click the Office button®Server®Document Management Information.
Figure 1: The Document Management task pane

Each of the icons at the top of the task pane maps to an equivalent task that you can perform from the SharePoint library. Table 1 describes the icons and lists the tasks you can perform with them.
Table 1: Task pane buttons
   Office task                      Name                                 Use to
   pane icon

The Document Management task pane is pretty handy when working with documents from SharePoint, but it does not appear automatically when you open a document from SharePoint. To change that:
1. On the Document Management task pane, click Options at the bottom of the Status tab on the task pane.
2. Under the Document Management heading, select the option to show the task pane at startup when the document is part of a workspace (that’s the first option on the page), and click OK.