Now how do I find my stuff?
SkyDrive has a whole new look and feel that’s colorful and attractive, but your first reaction seeing it may be the same as mine, “Wow, that’s cool, but how the heck do I navigate this, find my stuff and manage my permissions?” Since I use SkyDrive to distribute my PowerPoint tutorials to the public, you can understand my concern. However, once I got over my initial reaction I realized the new look is the same as SkyDrive on my Win7 phone and it’s actually quite easy. If you’re using a tablet, the new design is much easier to use than the traditional Windows Explorer layout.
Color and Structure have Meaning
You’ll notice that everything is now in color blocks. Dark blue blocks are folders and will be listed first and display the number of files in the folder in the lower right corner. Just click on the block to open the folder.
Filenames are displayed as color blocks that match the type of file, green for Excel, orange for PowerPoint, blue for Word, etc. If your file isn’t an MS Office file the colors can be interesting, for example, orange-red for Adobe PDFs and gray for Zip files. Each filename block displays the app icon in the lower left corner. Just click on the filename block to open the file.
