Mastering Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0

5.6. Modify a List

List views are good for manipulating the view of the data in a list, but it is only as useful as that data it displays. In order to make the Announcements list more useful, let's categorize announcements so we can see at a glance what would be informational, emergency, or celebratory. We could even filter announcements by their category, letting us know quickly how many are important to read.

To do this we need to modify the list itself (instead of modifying a view of the list's data) by adding a column. There is a convenient menu option to do this.

On the Announcements list, click the Settings button and select Create Column from the dropdown menu. This will bring you to the Create Column page. Let's take a second to get ...