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SharePoint Best Practices: Creating Columns

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Creating Columns 

Best Practice

When creating columns (or site columns), always try and avoid using special characters such as $, &, # and %.  For example:

Instead of "Purchase Order #", use "Purchase Order No" or "Purchase Order Number".

The reason is, if you plan using these columns later in code or in SharePoint Designer (for example, the dataview webpart), you will have problems and challenges, and I've seen specifically myself, the 'Send to Row' functionality break, when columns are named with extended characters.

Best Practice Category

Columns; Web Parts 
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Created at 1/25/2009 2:32 PM  by Sean Wallbridge 
Last modified at 1/25/2009 2:32 PM  by Sean Wallbridge