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Creating Standard Lists

Lists are probably the second most useful feature of SharePoint, after document libraries. You can think of lists as really just glorified spreadsheets, with columns and rows of information. What separates SharePoint lists from spreadsheets, however, is the ability for users to collaborate with information in lists in a much more flexible fashion than they would be able to with spreadsheets.

To use a real-world problem as an example, it is common practice for many organizations to email spreadsheets containing timesheets, sales data, parts information, and so on, to members of their team, have them add information to those spreadsheets, and then have them email the spreadsheets back. At that point, some poor intern working ...