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Using Datasheet view

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Using Datasheet view

If you've uploaded multiple files to a document library using either the Upload Multiple Documents feature or the Open with Explorer feature, then you've probably encountered what you see here in this document library, and that's the fact that they're all checked out. And you can see that here with the little green arrow on each of these icons. The reason why those files are checked out is because the metadata requirement for them has not been completed. Now, you have two choices, you can either go into them each individually and edit the properties in order to update the metadata, or you can edit the metadata in a much quicker way, and that's using a Datasheet view. To access a Datasheet view of this document library, move to your Ribbon bar, and click on the Library Tab. And then from here, you click on Datasheet View. Now, this will look a lot like Excel, set up kind of like a gird format. And here I can modify the metadata a lot quicker by simply copy-pasting the values. The four…

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