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Asking a site a question

Seven screens. About three minutes.

A dashed frame labelled a site holding six documents. one site

A site is a cupboard of files.

Somebody put them there over several years.

A box labelled your question with an arrow into the site frame. a questionthis site only

You can ask the cupboard.

Not the whole building. This one.

A green box labelled the answer with an amber box beneath labelled the file it came from. the answerthe file it used

It shows its working.

Every answer names the file underneath it.

Two panels. On the left a person opening many documents. On the right a person and one green answer. beforeafterone

It replaces opening nine files.

That is the whole benefit. It is a real one.

A box labelled a tidy site with an arrow to a green box labelled a good answer, and a box labelled a messy site with an arrow to a slate box labelled a poor one. a tidy sitea good answeran old messa poor one

It is only as good as the cupboard.

Nothing here tidies the files for you.

Do today

Open a SharePoint site you use and ask it one question you would normally ask a colleague.

That's the whole thing