5.10. Customize a List

Once you have a list's columns the way you like them, and you've created your views (both public and personal), it's time to expose the real backbone of the lists, their settings.

Lists are more than just columns, data, and views. You can secure them independently of the site that contains them; you can even secure individual items differently than those around them. You can set versioning of the list items, in case someone edits data incorrectly (you won't lose the original data if you need to return to it). You can configure item management rights, set content approval, and allow incoming mail. Lists, particularly for this version of SharePoint, can be more complicated than you think.

One setting that greatly enhances ...

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