Check out Microsoft's Document Sharing Website Docs.com

Although you can share documents from OneDrive with others, Microsoft's Docs.com is built to make that sharing easier and give you stats about the documents you share with others.

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

April 21, 2016

2 Min Read
Check out Microsoft's Document Sharing Website Docs.com

Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage has built in capabilities for sharing content with others but it is not really made to highlight that content or to give you any kind of stats about how often a document is viewed when you share it.

An alternative to using OneDrive for sharing these documents with the public or a limited group of readers is to use Microsoft's Docs.com website which is part of their free Office Online suite of products and services.

To clarify the difference between OneDrive and Docs.com - OneDrive is for collaboration and working with others while Docs.com is all about sharing the work you have done.

Docs.com can use a Microsoft, Facebook, Office 365 (Home, Education, Work), Wunderslist accounts or any email address you might have.

To get started with Docs.com once you are signed in you should review this list of basic tasks to learn how to use Docs.com.

Some of the things you will be able to do once you are up and running with Docs.com include publishing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office Mix, OneNote Notebooks, and Sway presentations. There is no limit on bandwidth, storage or the number of documents you can publish on your Docs.com account but OneNote Notebooks must be less than 100MB in size.

Your Docs.com portal can be fully customized and has several options for how to arrange your documents into collections so that you can pull together different items that pertain to a single project

Anything you share with the public on Docs.com will get indexed by search engines so if you prefer to not have that happen you should pick a limited group to share your documents with. That will keep the search engines from indexing your information on Docs.com and only those with a link to the document will have access to it.

Docs.com even has a journaling feature where you can share your thoughts on anything you want or about the documents you are sharing.

There is a lot of flexibility in how you can put Docs.com to use and we would like to hear how you use it or might put it to use in the future.

But, wait...there's probably more so be sure to follow me on Twitter and Google+.

About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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