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Overview
Last time, we modified the default “Contacts List” in order to see what other functionality we could introduce that could extend its default capabilities.
This is a continuation of the previous article “” in which we created a contacts list called “Employee Contacts” – this post will be using the same list again.
We began by addressing [...]

The default collection of “Lists and Libraries” within SharePoint are a great way for most users to begin collecting and sharing information.  Often however, the defaults may not have the full capabilities you want in order to present or manipulate the data they contain in the manner [...]

In addition to Dessie’s series on “Taming the Elusive Calculated Column” and his downloadable 51 page Ebook on Calculated Columns, there is another End User resource for calculated columns. Christophe at Path to SharePoint has provided a few insights that might help in your investigation.
Christophe has two articles of interest:

About SharePoint Calculated Columns
Calculated columns: the (useless?) [...]

One of the more useful categories of functions available to use in Calculated Columns is that of the “Text and Data” set of formulas. 
Through their use you can combine fields, compare data existing in other columns, apply formatting rules to entered data, and a variety of other actions to get the most out of the [...]

Dessie Lunsford
Points-of-Sharing
If you haven’t read through the previous three articles in this series (Part I, Part II, Part III), I would encourage you to read them first as we’ll be continuing on with the use of an Excel spreadsheet developed in each of them.
 
 
Review and Next Steps
In the last article, we created a calculated column [...]

Dessie Lunsford
Points-of-Sharing
If you haven’t read through the previous two articles in this series (Part I, Part II), I would encourage you to read them first as we’ll be continuing on with the use of an Excel spreadsheet developed in both of them.
 
 
Review and Next Steps
Last time (”Customizing a Task List Part II“), we created a [...]

Dessie Lunsford
Points-of-Sharing
If you haven’t read through the previous article in this series and wish to follow along in the walkthrough, I encourage you to read it first, especially since we’ll be working with the Excel spreadsheet we created last time.
In the previous article on “Customizing a Task List“, we created a “Date Completed” column using [...]