Processing 101 - Metadata on SharePoint and How to Edit it

SharePoint Metadata is information about documents or items in a list or library, that can be used to locate, manage, organize or categorize your content. Metadata can be anything from a file name, type, size, author, and so on.

Basically, you could think of it as the color coding your dad organized his files with back in the 60’s. It’s an efficient way to sort and access your files in given categories.

The only down side, dad had to do this manually, file by file… the same goes for editing your metadata in SharePoint. It can take ages to change each tag, especially when you have large lists containing tons of documents.