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5. Click OK to close the Create a Content Type dialog box.
The Content Types gallery page refreshes.
CLEAN UP Leave SharePoint Designer open if you are continuing to the next exercise.
Adding a Site Column to a Content Type
The settings of a content type are similar to the settings you can add to a list or library.
Using SharePoint Designer, you can add, amend, or delete document templates, site
columns, forms, and workflows for content types. In the browser, you can also configure
information management policies and document information panel (DIP) settings. From
SharePoint Designer, you can display the browser content administration page by clicking
the Administration Web Page command in the Manage group on the ribbon.
By adding multiple site columns to a content type, you can associate multiple types of
metadata with a particular type of content.
In this exercise you add a site column to a content type.