
Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook
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SharePoint lets you create new documents directly within a library through the New menu. It also lets you upload documents that have been authored offline.
In this recipe, we are going to learn how to upload an existing document to a document library and then associate metadata to it. Even though this recipe uses the Marketing Collateral library, which we previously created as an example, the steps here work for any SharePoint library.
You will need Contribute permissions or higher to the library where you would like to upload the document. You will usually have this permission if you are part of the Site owners or Site members groups for the site containing the library.
Here’s how to upload a document to your document library: