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User Guide for Classic M-Files Desktop and

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Introduction
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Daily use
This section gives information about the day-to-day use of M-Files.
Managing content
Adding content to vault
Creating documents and other objects

Daily use
This section gives information about the day-to-day use of M-Files.

Creating documents and other objects

This section tells you how to create new objects in the vault. For information on differences between documents and other object types, see the definition of an object.

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Object metadata
Creating documents
Creating non-document objects
Adding content from scanner
Replacing the content of a document file
Object permissions

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