You are using a SharePoint blog and you want to speed up and improve the blogging experience. In a nutshell Microsoft Live Writer is a client application which allows you to create a blog entry with rich content. It is then able to post your entry directly to Windows Live, WordPress or even SharePoint!

Wouldn't you like to hide some fields from a user when filling out a new item form for a list?

Every enterprise has a set of commonly used links, which is required to be standardized. Here's how to add one to your SharePoint site.

This tip shows how you can create a special library to host Web Part Pages and how you can use these to show filtered content for different functions. Using this method, you can consolidate your content onto centralized lists, while offering filtered views of the content for different functions, teams or projects, etc.

When a SharePoint list or library is added into a web part zone, whatever view I choose does not change when I update the view from the list or library settings.

Being new to SharePoint, the combinations of possibilities seem endless. There are site collections, sites, web parts, libraries, lists, content editor web pages, calendars, tasks, discussion boards, wikis...the list goes on and on. How does one put it all together in a way that makes sense?

At certain times, we want to hide the details in user input forms, but also at the same time we want to maintain the data in the backend. In SharePoint we could use the list to store data. The default forms provided in the list like NewForm, Editform and others contain all metadata (fields). Now the problem is if you want to remove fields from the forms, either you need to remove columns from the list or you need to create new forms to replace the default forms.

Every SharePoint site template (both MOSS 2007 and WSS3) has its own default layout of Web Part Zones. I would like to customize the layout of these zones for flexibility of design in a particular site.

By default, SharePoint document libraries display graphical icons representing various Microsoft Office Applications (i.e. Excel, Word, etc.). All non-Microsoft documents are represented with a plain white square. How do I display a special icon for other document types?

SharePoint provides "Lists" to store information. These are basically used in tabular structure (rows and columns). In certain circumstances, you need to display different data to different sets of users. For instance in a business firm, sometimes you need to display different sets of employee information to immediate supervisors, managers and others. In addition, you also need perform basic operations like sorting, filtering and grouping.

SharePoint provides "Lists" to store information which is basically used in row/column formats in a tabular structure. SharePoint facilitates this with a feature known as "List Views" which allows you to target, process and display different sets of information without changing the original data stored in the list. Sometimes, you need to process operations like sorting and filtering before displaying the information to the users. For instance, you want to display employee information of specific department sorted by their ages.

In SharePoint List, sometimes you need to display information in groups and perform mathematical operations like sum, averages and others. For instance, what if you want to see total monthly salary paid to employees for individual department?

By default, SharePoint Lists provide default new, edit and display forms. Limitations include the requirement to show and edit all fields and the inability to customize formatting of the form.

The scope of this article is to explain, how to create SharePoint web parts with HTML text editing input controls. Here we will go through the creation of an email sending web part with the Message field enabled for HTML formatting.

Looking for documentation and software related to SharePoint 2010? Check out this compiled list of SharePoint 2010 related documents and software.

I have worked hard creating a custom SharePoint list. Now I want to reuse the structure for another team in another site.

When creating Web Part Pages, there is no "Quick Launch" area for site navigation. Patrick Tisseghem offers the solution to put the Quick Launch back by removing the following line from the Web Part Page

I would like to selectively open specific links in a new browser window from an out-of-the-box SharePoint "Links List". In this tip I show you how this can be done.

Wouldn't you like to be able to redirect users to the page of your choice after submitting a new item to a SharePoint list? In this tip we cover the steps.

I've heard that Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 is a great administrator and designer tool for SharePoint. What are some of the compelling features, how do I get it and how much does it cost?

I would like a SharePoint web part to display a list of links that can start up a new web browser window.

Many SharePoint portals implement and apply the MySite feature (the MySite feature is only available in MOSS 2007 and is not provided by WSS 3.0).  But how about branding the same look and feel of the parent site to MySite? Unfortunately Microsoft designed MySite to have a default format and does not allow custom branding to be effective for all private MySite users. In this tip we'll go through how to overcome this issue.

Sometimes there are requirements in a Variated Multi-Lingual SharePoint portal which require having a unified single source document library/list with its folder structure to be displayed across all webs (Sub Sites : ex: English, Arabic, French, etc...) but achieving this we will face two serious problems. We'll discuss them in detail through this two part article series.

Sometimes there are requirements in a Variated Multi-Lingual SharePoint portal which require having a unified single source document library/list with its folder structure to be displayed across all webs (Sub Sites : ex: English, Arabic, French, etc...) but achieving this we will face two serious problems. We'll discuss them in detail through this two part article series.

Many Multi-Lingual SharePoint portals may require having the same List structure in its webs (Sub-Sites) [i.e. having a list in a primary language site (ex: English) which has a set of predefined columns and the need to have this list structure in a secondary language variated site (ex: Arabic) where each template has its own language variated template]. Also, there may be the need to extend a certain List quota (i.e. list items size) instead of using the default quota. Rob Fisch wrote a tip about "Managing SharePoint File Size Limits" which applies to any file (item) size under an entire web application using SharePoint Central Administration. I will explain how to extend a List items size without effecting other files in the site using

Using the Sharepoint Content Editor Web Parts for free form style display of content.

I'd like to design a portal splash page in SharePoint, but I need a way to apply permissions to different section summaries. I would like different groups of users to see different content on the main portal page. MOSS 2007 provides an option called "Audiences", but the administration demands can be overkill for many situations. Also, with WSS3, there is no "Audience" option.

When creating business solutions with SharePoint lists, one of the field types is the 'choice' column. This is handy to offer users a static list of values. This can be important to help users not have to lookup categorical or other frequently used information. It can also help when building custom views to have consistently chosen (and correctly spelled) data. However, I continually get requests to modify the list of choices. Can I give a few select users the power to maintain their own choices without giving them control over the rest of the list structure?