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OneDrive is an excellent solution for storing your documents and photos.
However, you could use it for so much more.
The best part is that you could stream them directly on OneDrive.
To do that, find the video on OneDrive and click it to open it.
To scan a document, you must first download the OneDrive app from theApp StoreorGoogle Play.
Afterward, launch it and tap the camera icon.
Place the document you want to scan within the frame and tap the white circle to take a picture.
you might adjust the borders of the frame to ensure only the important parts of the document are shown.
Then, tap Confirm in the bottom right corner.
If there are more pages to add, tap Add in the bottom left corner.
Otherwise, tap Done in the bottom-right corner.
Name the document and then tap the blue checkmark in the top-right corner to save it.
Share Documents With Friends and Family
OneDrive is a useful tool for sharing important documents with colleagues.
you’re free to arrange everything in folders and subfolders tokeep your OneDrive organized.
Others can then comment, make changes, and download what you shared.
To share a file or folder on OneDrive, click its radio button.
Then, click Share in the top menu.
Enter the email addresses of the people you want to share the file with.
Next, key in in a message (optional) and then poke the Send button.
you’re free to also copy the documents link and send it manually.
To do that, snag the Copy button in the Copy Link section.
In the prompt on the right, hit the Generate button to create the HTML embed code.
View a Files Metadata
When you upload a file to OneDrive, it will also include metadata.
Furthermore, images will have EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data; metadata specific to images.
EXIF data can be useful, butit can also present a privacy risk.
Metadata helps when you have questions about a particular file in OneDrive.
The metadata will be in the panel that appears on the right.
While these apps have a recovery feature for such scenarios, you might not recover everything.
To do that, click Sign In in the top right.
In the prompt, follow the instructions to sign in to your Microsoft account.
Once signed in, snag the AutoSave toggle in the top-left corner.
Select your OneDrive account, give the document a name, and smack the OK button in the prompt.
Every time you make changes, they will be saved automatically to the cloud, thanks to OneDrive.
grab the Insert tab in the new window.
In the dialog box, search for the file on your box and insert it.
Choose Share Link or Attach as Copy in the prompt.
Otherwise, everyone will get a separate copy.
There are many good reasons to use OneDrive beyond being anonline storage for documents and photos.
Apart from OneDrive, you canuse Google Driveto achieve similar results.
