Creating a New View

In the Create a View link from the Settings menu, you can create persistent views of the documents in the library. Five default views can be created.

  1. Standard view

  2. Datasheet view

  3. Calendar view

  4. Gantt view

  5. Access view

Within each of these views, you have the ability to create views that incorporate sorting, grouping, ordering, and filtering, among other options.

In the following exercise, you will create a new view of a document library.

Note

OPEN the SharePoint site in which you’d like to apply metadata to a document. If prompted, type your user name and password, and then click OK.

BE SURE TO complete the Adding Documents exercise in Chapter 5 and complete the previous exercise in this chapter on adding a column to a document library. ...

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