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Description Column in Libraries

The Description column has recently appeared in all existing and new libraries in our tenant. A Description column is commonly used in Lists, but rarely in Document libraries. We do not see added value in this column and we are removing the column for all new and when we encounter in existing libraries. Why the push ? Without understanding it's purpose, it's creating a lot of extra work for us to remove the column.

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Understood, but I'm more concerned about the potential impact of it pushing out to ALL existing libraries and there is already a Description column ... On the Community site, someone already replied that very thing happened to their environment where the original is associated with their Content Type, but then there is this new "free floating" Description column so she's been deleting the "free floating" column ... That's prime for errors to suddenly have 2 columns with the exact same name in the library ...

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CaseyYangMSFT-4714 answered

Hi @lgonyea-7373

Per my research, I found this vote in UserVoice. Some users think the description is a critical piece of information in assisting users with knowing the purpose and intended usage of the library/list. This may be the reason why description column appears in libraries.


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