[Autogenerated] high in this lesson. I'm
gonna show you how to add text columns to
a list. And I also want to add that this
process is the same with the SharePoint
library. We're gonna go to our operations
applicants list, and we're gonna add a
single line of text column. Single line of
text columns are the most popular, the
most commonly used, I should say column in
a SharePoint list. Now our operations
applicants list doesn't have much going
on. There's only one column, the title
column, and this is here by default when
you first create the list. Now this is
gonna be a list of names, addresses, maybe
email addresses. Things like that. And
title isn't really a column that we want.
However, you can't get rid of the title
column, but you can rename it, and that's
what we're gonna do. First, we're gonna go
here and click on the little Drop Down and
go to column settings and you'll see
Rename is the top option. You were gonna
rename it from title to last name because
that's what we want our first column to be
in this list. So we're going to save it
and there you have it. Last name. Great.
Now let's go ahead and let's add a new
column and you see the big ad column
button here. That's the one we want. We're
gonna click on that, and the very 1st 1 is
single line of text. So it opens up to
create a column panel on the right, and
the first thing we have to do and it is
required is to give our column a name. So
this will be our first name column, and
you can add a description if you want. But
I think first name is pretty self
explanatory. Now the type is single line
of text. Like I said, that's what we want.
There are other types here, but we're not
gonna look at those today. Default value.
Do we want to put a default value in here?
No, we don't. We want to leave that blank,
and we have a more options button where we
can set the maximum number of characters
now to 55 is the most that you can do. You
can't say make it 500 but to 55 is plenty.
We don't I think need more than that do we
want to require that this column contains
information? No, we're fine with that. Do
we want to enforce unique values? No,
because a lot of people are likely to have
the same first name. And do we want to add
this column to all content types? Yes, we
do. So we're going to simply click on Save
and there is our first name column. All
right, I'm gonna add a couple more columns
and you don't have to watch. I'm going to
do the same thing we just did. It's the
same process and I'll be right back. All
right, I'm back and you'll see that I
added three columns Address State City,
and I want to add one more column. I want
to add a column for the ZIP code. Now, the
zip code zip code is a five digit number
or possibly five plus four if you're going
to go that route and you might be tempted
to use number as the type of column. But I
want to show you you have to be careful
with this. So our zip and we've got
number. We're going to save it now. I am
going to add a new list item and I'm
simply going to put in simple, easy, not
gonna worry about address state and city.
But when I come to the zip now, some
states like Massachusetts, have zip codes
that start with a zero. That's gonna be a
problem in an Excel list if you have the
column formatted as number. So I am going
to put in a Massachusetts ZIP code here
that is 01702 When I save it, look over
here, see what happens. It took zero off
because you can't start that number in a
SharePoint list with zero and made it 1702
and even put the comma in the third place.
What we need to do is make this a text
column, So let's go ahead. We can still do
that. We're going to click here on the ZIP
column and we're gonna go to column
settings and click on edit. Now we're
gonna change the type from number to
single line of text. And when we say that
we're gonna get this warning that says we
may lose some of our data because we're
changing the column type. That's Okay, now
the commas gone. Now it's looking at this
as text. And if I go here and I edit this
item and put the zero back in once we save
it now the zero is there. 01702 So now you
know how to add text columns? Two A share
point list. Thanks for listening. And I'll see you next time.