Beyond look and feel, there is lots of other formatting support in the Data View. One of the most important is that you can easily change the way the Data View interprets data for presentation, i.e. for fields such as dates, hyperlinks, rich text, numbers...

I'm very happy to say that formatting a Data View works exactly the way you'd expect/want - you simply select the field you want to format, use the HTML formatting toolbar and voila: 'it just works'. a quick example: let's say you wanted to highlight...

Now that I've introduced the Data View web part, I'd like to give you a quick demo of how easy it is to add one of these data-driven views to a web page... -> The main entry point for creating Data Views is the top-level menu called Data, which...