Wednesday, January 2, 2013

How to Remove the “Title” column from a SharePoint list


1.     In your list, click the List Settings button on the List tab.
2.     If the Content Types section isn’t visible, enable management of content types by following these steps:
Click the Advanced Settings link on the List Settings page.
Select the Yes radio button under Allow Management of Content Types? and then click OK. The Content Types section will be visible on the List Settings page.
3.     In the Content Types section of the List Settings page, click the Item content type.
4.     Click the Title column.
5.     Under Column Settings, select the Hidden (Will Not Appear in Forms) radio button and click OK.

5 comments:

  1. Perfect! Just what I need. Clear and concise!

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  2. Thanks Parthiban,

    Can you please help on below issue which is related with your above post.

    In SharePoint 2013 Document Library, How to remove name column which is showing always once we upload the document with document name.

    I already tested above steps. After clicking Document Content Type every column is clickable except "Name" column. In Document Library I'm facing this issue.

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  3. I have a site which has bunch of library that hides title column using same approach but when i save site as a template and create new sub site using the template it removes my changes and puts all title columns as optional instead of hidden. how to solve this? any idea is appreciated. thanks in advance

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