Over the past 2 days there has been a repeated question over on Stump the Panel about having a choice column that will auto update with values users manually enter. Out of the box there isn’t anything that can be done to update the values of the choice column to include the specified value.

A similar situation can come up in SharePoint as well. What happens if you didn’t do your Information Architecture work? Didn’t set up groups, content types, or columns?
You may not have had the experience or the tools (planning spreadsheet). You didn’t even know that content came in types
In the case of swelling libraries, you’ll need to centralize all you content so you can see it. Go to the Library/Actions/Export to spreadsheet. There you will be able to see if and what columns and content types you need to add

The question of the day comes from Steve in California:
 I’ve set up a document library and created a custom Word 07 template, using fields in the library as fields in the document (via insert|quick parts|Document Properties|<field>). This works fine for most of the fields, but I have a couple that are lookups on other lists. [...]