How to Delete a Column in SharePoint List or Document Library

In this SharePoint Online Tutorial, I will show, how to delete a column in SharePoint list or document library. We will discuss how to delete a column from a SharePoint Online list from column settings and remove a column in the SharePoint Online list from the list settings.

You can see, I have created a SharePoint list as “Employee Registration” and inside this, I have added various columns such as:

1. First Name: This is a default single line of text
2. Last Name: Single line of text
3. Gender: Choice column
4. DOB: Date and Time column
5. Email: Single line of text, etc…

Here, if you want to delete a column from a SharePoint Online list, then follow the below two ways to remove a column. Such as:

1. Delete a column in a SharePoint list from the Column settings
2. Delete a column in a SharePoint Online list from the List settings

Note: You can follow the same steps to delete a column from a SharePoint document library also.

Delete a column from a SharePoint list from Column settings

Let us see how to delete a column in a SharePoint list from the Column settings. To achieve it, follow the below steps are:

• Open the SharePoint Online list, and click on the specific column which you want to delete. Then select Column settings and click on the Edit option like below:

• Next, select the Delete button under the Edit column window.

• Then, it will give a confirmation window, and click on the OK button. Once you click on OK, the column will be deleted from a SharePoint list or library.

This is how to delete a column in a SharePoint list from the Column settings.

Delete a column from SharePoint Online list from List settings

Here, we will discuss how to delete a column in a SharePoint list from the List settings. To do so, follow the below steps:

• Open the SharePoint list, and click on Settings or Gear icon. Then click on the List settings under the SharePoint section.

• Next, click on the specific column under the Column section like below:

• Then, in the Edit Column window, click on the Delete button.

• Then the column will be deleted from the SharePoint list.

This is how to delete a column in the SharePoint Online list from List settings.

Conclusion

Deleting a SharePoint list column is easy and here I have explained two ways to remove a column from a SharePoint list or SharePoint document library. If you are still using classic version of a SharePoint list, then you can delete a column from the List settings page.

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