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Box: Best Practices

Tips for keeping your Box account organized: folder tree, personal folders, Favorites, Collections, Recents, search and your home page.

Box: Create New Files and Folders

Create folders, Box Notes, bookmarks and Office or Google files directly in Box.

Box: Delete Files and Folders

Move files and folders to Trash, one at a time or several at once.

Box: Edit Files with Box Tools

Open Box files in the desktop applications on your computer, and save changes back to Box.

Box: Edit Microsoft Office Files Online

Create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files in your browser with Office Online, including editing with others at the same time.

Box: Empty Your Trash

Permanently delete items from your Box Trash before the 30 days are up.

Box: File Versioning and Reverting to a Previous Version

How to access a file's version history in Cornell Box, preview or download prior versions, and promote an earlier version to current.

Box: Folder Colors

What the yellow, blue and gray folder icons in Box mean.

Box: Move and Copy Files and Folders

Move or copy items in Box, and what happens to access permissions when you do.

Box: Move Existing Folders into Your Department's Box Folder

Move folders you own or that were shared with you into your department's Box folder.

Box: Recover Deleted Files and Folders

Restore items from your Box Trash within 30 days of deleting them.

Box: Request Access to Your Department's Box Folder

Ask us to add or remove someone's access to your department's Box folder.

Box: Search for Files, Folders and Content

Find items in Box with the search bar, filters, spelling suggestions and exact-phrase search.

Box: Set Email Notifications

Choose which Box activity, such as uploads, comments or deletions, sends you an email.

Box: Share a Folder in Your Department's Box Folder

Invite collaborators, including people outside your department, to a folder in your department's Box folder.

Box: Waterfall Permissions

How access to a Box folder flows down to all of its subfolders and files.

Log Into Box

How to log into Cornell Box at cornell.app.box.com using CUWebLogin. Note: Confidential Data should not be stored in Box.