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What are content types?

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What are content types?

There is something called a content type in SharePoint and you will care about these but you may not know that yet. In fact, you already care about the situation this is designed to fix. Let's say your colleague walks over to you and says, hey I just e-mailed you a Word document. Your first thought is okay, what is it? And if your colleague says to you "well, I just told you it's a Word document," you're liable to get a little annoyed. "I know it's a document. I heard you. What kind of document, what actually is it?" Now SharePoint has the same problem when you're uploading things into SharePoint what you are you uploading. I am uploading documents, and yes here's the deal. At the simplest most abstract level SharePoint is a place to put your stuff. Its list and its libraries hold that information and they hold your documents, easy enough, but you don't think about your stuff this way. You don't deal with documents. You deal with resumes, specifications, and business plans, and…

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