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

2.5. Modifying the Columns in Your List

Whether you want to modify the columns in the instance of a SharePoint list or a custom list that you or a colleague created just yesterday, you proceed the same way. First, open the list. Then select List Settings from the Settings drop-down in the list menu shown in Figure 2-27.

Figure 2.27. Modifying a column

This menu option opens the Settings page for the selected list as shown in Figure 2-28. Locate the column you want to modify in the Columns section of this page and click the column name. SharePoint then displays a page with possible changes you can make to the column. For many columns, you can ...