Working with documents

harmon.ie Classic is a central hub for all your SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive files and locations. Use harmon.ie to easily access and manage your M365 files – create, delete, rename, move, copy, open, share and more.

Learn how to work with the document list in harmon.ie:

Some operations can be simultaneously performed on multiple documents.

To delete a folder or a document:

To delete a selected document or folder from SharePoint, Teams or OneDrive, right-click the item and select Delete, or use the keyboard shortcut Delete. If you delete a folder, all contents inside the folder are removed. Deleted items are moved to the SharePoint site’s Recycle Bin. You can restore deleted items from the Recycle Bin, which is available from SharePoint’s Web interface.

Sites and document libraries cannot be deleted from harmon.ie.

To rename a document:

To rename a document, right click the document and select Rename, then type the new name and click OK.

If the document library has versioning support, you will be prompted to check out the document in order to rename it. Then, check it back in.

To open in browser:

Right-click a subsite, document library, folder, or document, and select Open in Browser to open the SharePoint item in a Web browser.

The Open in Browser operation is also available from the context menu of the breadcrumbs, located in the navigation & search omnibox above the document list. Right-clicking the right-most element in the breadcrumbs is the easiest way to open the current location in the browser.

You can open a SharePoint site or document library in the web browser from the breadcrumbs context menu.

To set or clear Retention Labels:

This feature is available if an administrator defined Retention Labels in the SharePoint location.

To set Retention Labels:

  1. Right-click folder(s) and/or document(s) and select Apply Retention Label.
  2. Select the label you want to set.

– or –

  1. Right-click folder(s) and/or document(s) and select Edit Properties.
  2. Select the Retention label from the drop-down list at the top of the Edit Properties dialog.

Setting retention labels

  • When the retention label is a record, the record icon (The Declare Record icon) is overlaid on the Type icon.
  • You can not change the Retention Label of documents that are declared as a record.

To remove a Retention Label:

  1. Right-click a folder or document(s) and select Apply Retention Label.
  2. Select None.

To view what Retention Label is set:

Right-click a folder or document(s) and select Apply Retention Label. A dot next to a label indicates it is the set label.

– or –

Right-click a folder or document(s) and select View Properties. The Retention Label is written below the document name.

Clipboard operations

You can use standard clipboard operations (Cut, Copy, and Paste) to move and copy documents between different locations on SharePoint,
Outlook, and your computer. These operations are available from the sidebar’s document context menu.

You can use standard clipboard operations to move and copy documents between locations on SharePoint, Outlook and your computer.

Use the Copy command menu to:

  • Copy the Document itself.
  • Copy a Link to the document. This option places the document name with a hyperlink to its location on the Clipboard.
  • Copy a Link (Document ID) to the document. This option places the document name with a hyperlink to its document ID on the Clipboard. This option is available if the library contains a Document ID property.
  • Copy the Address of the document. This option places the URL of the document on the Clipboard. The Copy Address command is also available for subsites, libraries, and folders, and in the breadcrumbs context menu in the sidebar status bar.

    • The breadcrumbs context menu lets you copy the address of the current and parent locations.

The Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut works similar to dragging-and-dropping files from the sidebar. By default, a document link is copied when you select Ctrl+C. Use harmon.ie settings to change the default action when copying SharePoint documents with Ctrl+C.

Use the Cut command to move documents inside the harmon.ie sidebar:

  • When cutting and pasting to Outlook or to your computer, the command behaves as the Copy command.
  • When using the Cut command and pasting the document to another SharePoint site,
    the document’s meta-information, including document properties, workflows, approval status, version history and content type, is lost.
  • When using the Cut command and pasting the document to another document library, the document’s meta-information is saved. Note, however, that all the properties are copied only if the document’s content type exists in the destination location. If not, the default content type is assigned to the document, and the common properties are copied.

To approve or reject documents:

  1. If major and minor versions are being tracked in a document library that requires content approval, you must publish the document first.
  2. Right-click the document and select Approve/Reject.
  3. Mark the document as Approved, Rejected, or Pending. Optionally enter a comment about why the document was approved or rejected.
  4. Click OK.