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Lists instead of spreadsheets

Lists instead of spreadsheets - SharePoint Tutorial

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Lists instead of spreadsheets

- [Instructor] Up to this point, we've been talking more or less abstractly, but let's start working in SharePoint so we can see real life examples of how this all works out. The first thing we'll delve into is using lists in SharePoint to store and work directly with information, instead of using spreadsheets that are saved to a document library. Here's that spreadsheet that we've been working with. Like we said before, fairly straightforward, right? Now, look at this. Here's the same information which I've recreated in a SharePoint list. Let's poke around here for a minute. Although this looks fairly innocuous, there are some slick things happening out of sight. Like what if I want to add another record? Well, I just click New here. Is it easy to input information? Absolutely, I've got a really nice input form right there. Now this is stock out of the box. I'm not going to monkey with the input forms during this…

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