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SharePoint Best Practices: Creating Lists

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Creating Lists 

Best Practice

When creating lists, always create your list without spaces and simply modify the description after the list has been created, to put the spaces back.

Reasons:
1. The URL will be shorter (spaces are changed to %20) so every space adds 3 additional characters
2. The URL will be nicer to look at (see #1, no %20's)
3. If you decide to reference these lists later via SharePoint Designer or .NET, you won't need to deal with thanslating the %20 information in your code, which means you can develop faster
4. It's easy, and takes an extra 10 seconds per list - hardly a big deal, eh?  But with a big, long term reward

Best Practice Category

Lists; Sites 
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Created at 1/25/2009 2:35 PM  by Sean Wallbridge 
Last modified at 1/25/2009 2:35 PM  by Sean Wallbridge