The Beauty of the Link

A link in SharePoint is a beautiful item. Historically, individuals fire up their e-mail client and create an e-mail and then attach a file. This maybe good if the contents of that file – will not change – however in reality what if a typo is found or information changes? Now – if it’s attached that file is frozen in time and thus the typo stays forever – as does the information in that said e-mail.

Using a link allows one to fix that typo as well as make sure that everyone is looking at and receiving and viewing the latest information. Therefore – utilize the simple link by navigating to your document library and clicking that … then highlight the link displayed (the one starting with http:// or https://) and right mouse click it – and then select copy – go to your e-mail client – then right mouse click and select paste and then you will have your desired link in an e-mail: