Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

2.10. Summary

This chapter began by reviewing the built-in lists that WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 supply out of the box. SharePoint divides the available lists into three broad groupings. The first group, communications, includes lists that facilitate communications between users. The second group, tracking, includes lists that help users track information. The last group includes the custom list template.

I then showed you how to use the existing list templates. By creating instances of these templates, you can add items to your list instances and publish the resulting lists. By creating instances of a list template, SharePoint treats these lists as web parts that can then be inserted into web part zones of web pages where users can view them.