Final_Version_7_REALLY_Final.docx — The SharePoint Intervention You Didn’t Know You Needed

06/10/2025 16 min
Final_Version_7_REALLY_Final.docx — The SharePoint Intervention You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Send us a textEver opened a SharePoint library so messy you didn’t know where to start? The kind full of “final_final_really_final.docx” chaos, folders from 2016, and documents with no owner in sight?In this episode, we stage a SharePoint intervention. I’ll walk you through how I took one out-of-control document library and transformed it into a clean, structured container that actually works — using nothing but out-of-the-box SharePoint features.You’ll learn the exact steps I take to:Identify the mess behind “version seven really final” chaosApply metadata that instantly brings structure and findabilityUse content types to separate working documents from published onesClean up without breaking links, losing history, or starting overThis story builds on last week’s Policy & Procedure Hub design — but this time, we’re taking it to the ground level: a single library, one team, one intervention.And at the end, I’ll share a practical next step if you’re ready to make your own content Copilot-ready — my 60-minute mini course, Fix the Mess™ – Preparing Your SharePoint for Copilot.Because the fix isn’t more AI. It’s better organisation.

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