Nice post over on DLOCC|A SharePoint Community. Dealing with the “title” column is a pain a lot of times.

The question of the day comes from Doug in California:
I’ve tracked down and confirmed consistently that I’m seeing an issue with Check In/Out. It is repeatable.

User creates new or uses existing Document Library.
Library contains a required column, “Document Category”.
Upload files to this library
Files appear as “Checked Out” even though check out feature is not turned [...]

One of the features in SharePoint that will help with end user buy-in is the ability for them to continue to work in a familiar environment instead of forcing all work to be done within SharePoint. Along these lines, the major applications of MS Office (Word, Excel and SharePoint) have the ability to use the [...]

I’ve seen it happen a couple of times in the past month. A client calls and says “I’ve uploaded a bunch of files but no one can see them. What’s going on?”
When uploading multiple files to a library, they are not automatically checked in. Go back to the library and look at the icon for each file.  You’ll [...]