So if you’ve ever tried to walk someone through the process of creating a custom web part page filled with nicely styled text and pictures, you know what a poor experience SharePoint WSS 3.0 provides. It involves navigating all of SharePoint land, hunting for URL’s, and battling with a lame Rich Text Editor with the formatting of your content.

I released a solution that would filter any list in SharePoint. The purpose of the solution was to make it easy to get to the information needed from the list currently being viewed. Original article: jQuery – List and Document Library Filtering Solution In the latest version 2.0 the purpose has not changed, but improvements have been added. Based on feedback from others there were a few features requested.

The example that follows uses a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) however, this practice can be used in any SharePoint Web Part that allows you to Edit HTML source using the icon in the Rich Text Editor

Often it is necessary to show information in a way that cannot be created easily using SharePoint’s Rich Text Editor feature. For example, producing a table of information using the Rich Text Editor within the Content Editor Web Part often does not produce what we have in our mind’s eye. Why is formatting a table in Microsoft Word so much easier? I’m not certain why it is, but here’s a quick video on how you can use your Microsoft Word knowledge to create a table that can be presented with all of your desired formatting within SharePoint