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Creating a custom list - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2010 Essential Training
Creating a custom list
The time will certainly come when you're going to look at the available lists, you're either going to use your Site Actions menu and click More Options, or one of the many ways you get to the same window. You'll look at the available lists, and you'll think, okay, this just isn't doing it for me. I need a list to keep track of my ice cream flavors, my vendor's machinery, my DVD titles. Those obviously don't exist in this fairly short predefined setup. However, what you do have is the ability to create a custom list. Now, you'll see two options for this, Custom List and Custom List in Datasheet View. These are quite similar to each other, as we'll see in a moment. In fact, if you can filter down your list even further to the Blank & Custom, you'll basically see three choices. You can make a custom list in a different view called the Datasheet View, or you can import a spreadsheet. So, if you're storing this data already in an Excel spreadsheet, where the first columns are the titles of…