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In this article, SharePoint MVP Andrew Connell explains SharePoint Server 2007 field controls and Web Parts and how they differ, and best practices for when to use each type of control.

You don't have to be a professional Web site designer or software developer to customize your SharePoint site. By using the built-in Web Part features described in this article, you can easily customize your site's home page and the other Web Part Pages that are stored in your site.

This downloadable 43-page article, which is aimed at a non-technical audience, discusses the key things you need to plan before you even begin to create a SharePoint site.

The Outlook Web Access Web Parts available in SharePoint Server 2007 enable you to display selected content from folders in your Office Outlook 2007 email account in a SharePoint site. This article explains how to use these Web Parts to customize your My Site.

Watch this demo to see how you can use Groove 2007 with SharePoint technologies to collaborate across geographical and organizational boundaries.

Learn how blogs enable you or your organization to quickly share ideas and information.

Learn how to use Word 2007 to create a blog post on a SharePoint site.

Check out this demo to learn how blogs can help you keep coworkers updated.

This series of videos presents an end-to-end scenario, starting with the necessary site components and ending with saving the solution as a site template so that you can reuse it. Along the way, see how to design several secondary workflows and learn how to use a wide range of workflow lookups.

You requested them, and here they are: the Visio diagram and site template from the Design a document review workflow solution videos are now available for download.

Learn how you can use the Search Center to find people by name, or by searching on their user profile values.

Learn how site owners can create sites in a specific language and configure the regional settings that are appropriate for those sites.

Learn how to customize a site to use specific regional settings that are used as the default settings for all users of your site.

Learn how to change the regional settings for a site.

Don’t have a SharePoint site yet? No problem! Learn how to share files using SharePoint document libraries, and then use our real-time connection to a SharePoint site to practice with a document library in your own browser.

Check out this article for step-by-step instructions on configuring and using the Three-state workflow.

In this demo, you'll learn how to use the Three-state workflow in SharePoint Server 2007. The Three-state workflow uses the statuses of Active, Resolved, and Closed. This workflow can be used to manage business processes that require organizations to track a high volume of issues or items.

The Microsoft Office Groove 2007 Product Guide provides an overview of Groove 2007 and highlights some of its key new features. It also offers a real-world scenario that illustrates how Groove 2007 helps a distributed project team collaborate more effectively. Download this document to learn more about Groove 2007.

In this demo you will see how to easily customize a site, right from the browser, so that users know where they are at just a glance. The scenario is based on the Adventure Works Marketing team, which likes their new site, but wants to make it distinct from other sites within the company.

See how to connect to a library on a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, browse, edit, and even search the files, all from within Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.