Sharepoint 2007: Upload a File Using the Explorer View

The last way to upload documents is using the explorer view in document libraries. This is also dependent on the same components as the web folders method, and is similar to it in that you can copy and paste files into the folders in the document library.

To get to the explorer view, open the document library in Microsoft Internet Explorer, and then open the view picker to choose the Explorer View from the list of views (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. Choosing Explorer View from the view picker.

The explorer view shows the document library as a folder in a frame in the window (see Figure 2).

Figure 2. The document library in the explorer view.

To upload files to the folder using this view, copy the files, and then right-click in the frame. This will cause a security prompt to appear and warn you that the system is trying to run code that is insecure. Select Yes to open the right-click menu that you get when you right-click in any folder in your machine. Then select Paste to upload the file using the regular Windows copying mechanism, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Uploading a file using the explorer view.