Adding Columns | SharePoint 2010 Tutorial

Adding Columns

The built-in list templates give you most of what you need, but you’ll quickly find that you need to make some changes to get what you want. I gave a quick example of how to create and customize a list in the Phone List example in Chapter 1, so I won’t repeat that information here but I will go in to more detail about the types of changes you can make and why you make them:
=> Add columns to gather additional information.
=> Add calculated columns to display information in different ways.
=> Add choice or look-up columns to provide new ways to group or filter items.
The following sections describe those tasks in detail.