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Using a built-in SharePoint list form

Using a built-in SharePoint list form

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Using a built-in SharePoint list form

There are two major ways your users are going to enter information into a SharePoint list. The first way, is they'll simply open the list and start to type. They'll see it in Datasheet View and enter information so that's one decent way to do this. However, not all lists allow Datasheet View and normally we'd like people to have a better user experience, we'd like them to use a form, and you might wonder, well where would I get this form from? The good news is that every time you're creating a list or a library, Microsoft SharePoint is creating a form for you, it actually creates three versions of a form. If we take a look at our Employee Onboarding list that we've been using, there were four fields that were added, and there was one existing field whose name was changed. The default title field was changed to Employee Name and then four different date fields were added, and here's the form that was created for entering new items here in SharePoint, let's take a look at something…

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