Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Changing the order of fields in edit or display forms

Just a quick post in answer to a question I got yesterday:
How do you change the order of fields in edit or display forms?

It's a question a lot of end users struggle with, and I never know the answer without Google. So, I thought I'd put it up here, with some more relevant keywords, so others and I can find it more easily in the future.

1. Go to the list
2. Enter list settings (from the ribbon in 2010, from the drop downs in 2007)
3. Click Advanced settings
4. Ensure ‘allow management of content types’ is checked
5. Go back to the list settings
6. In the list of content types associated with the list, click the one you want to change the order of fields for (in lists that have been created ad hoc this is usually item or document).
7. In the bottom of the screen a link appears called ‘Column order’

Hope it helps someone.

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