Intro to OneDrive (work or school)
- What is OneDrive?
- Get started with OneDrive
- OneDrive basics
- Set up your Android phone or tablet
- Set up your iPhone or iPad
- Use the OneDrive mobile app
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Overview
Sign in to office.com and select OneDrive to:
- Access and edit your files from all your devices.
- Share inside or outside your organization.
- Work together in real-time on Office documents.
- Quickly find the files that matter to you.
- Keep your files protected and backed up.
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Overview
Sign in to office.com and select OneDrive to:
- Access and edit your files from all your devices.
- Share inside or outside your organization.
- Work together in real-time on Office documents.
- Quickly find the files that matter to you.
- Keep your files protected and backed up.
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Navigation pane
- Files is your home base where you can find all of your files and folders.
- Recent shows the files you worked on last.
- Shared are the files others have shared with you and the files you’ve shared with others.
- Discover shows files that are trending around you from people you work with.
- Recycle bin shows your deleted files and folders.
- Shared libraries show files in recently visited Teams and SharePoint sites.
Toolbar
- Select New to create files or folders.
- Select Upload to add files or folders to your OneDrive storage.
- Select Sort
to change how you’d like to view your files. - Select View
to change the view. - Select Information
to see details like who Has Access and Activity. Or, hover the cursor over a file and information will appear. - Use keywords and tags to Search for files or folders.
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- Download the OneDrive app from the Google Play store.
Note: If you have a Windows 10 phone, you already have the OneDrive app.
- Sign in with the work or school account you use for OneDrive, to see and share your files stored in OneDrive.
- To add another account, like your personal OneDrive account, tap the Accounts and Settings icon
and then tap Add account. - If you have the Office mobile apps, like Word, Excel or PowerPoint, you can also open, view, and edit your OneDrive files from there.
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- Download the OneDrive app from the Apple App Store.
- Sign in with the work or school account you use for OneDrive to see and share your files stored in OneDrive.
- To add another account, like your personal OneDrive account, tap the Accounts and Settings icon
and then tap Add account. - If you have the Office mobile apps, like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you can also open, view, and edit your OneDrive files from there.
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- Open your files in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to edit them.
- Share, delete, move, or rename files.
- Save files offline so you can view or edit when you’re not connected to the internet.
- Create new files and folders, take photos or videos, and upload new files.
- Use Scan to turn a document, whiteboard, or business card into a PDF that you can annotate and share with others.
- Switch between multiple OneDrive accounts.


to change how you’d like to view your files.
to change the view.
to see details like who Has Access and Activity. Or, hover the cursor over a file and information will appear.
and then tap Add account.