Kick-Start SharePoint
Wow, you’re so proud of your work you want others to be able to use it. To share the list, publish it to a SharePoint site:
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If you don’t have SharePoint, look ahead to Chapter 2 to find out how to get one for a free trial online (it only takes a few minutes).
Click anywhere on the list and then choose Data → List → Publish List. Excel displays the first step of the Publishing Wizard (Figure 1-9).

Figure 1-9. Starting to publish a list to SharePoint
Specify the address of your SharePoint site and give the list a name and description. Click Next. If you aren’t logged on to your site, Excel displays a sign-on dialog box for you to enter your user name and password.
Once you’re signed on, Excel displays the columns that make up the list, along with their data types (Figure 1-10). Click Finish to create the list.

Figure 1-10. Choosing types for SharePoint
After SharePoint creates the list, it passes the address of the list back to Excel, which displays it in a success message (Figure 1-11).

Figure 1-11. Success!
Just to make sure that it worked, click on the link in the previous success message. Excel displays the list on the SharePoint site in a browser window, ...