Working with Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 - Term Set Management

Initially I published an article Working with Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 here I want to illustrate some core functionality that is available when you want to manage Managed Metadata.

In the Site Settings select "Term store management" item:

Then select the term set you would like to manage. In my scenario I want to create a term set to store Document Categories. For example I have two categories: Accounting, Technical.
So first I select a metadata group that you want to update and select "New Term Set" command:

I call it Document Categories and Save it. Then I select this new term set and choose "Create Term" command:

To create "Accounting" term:

Then create as many terms as I want to get Accounting and Technical as I wanted:

You can also do other command with your terms - Copy, Reuse, Merge, Deprecate, Move, Delete:

After that I add Managed Metadata to my content type that I use for documents, select Document Categories Term Set and I can choose these terms anywhere:

Managed Metadata is a very useful improvement in SharePoint 2010.

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