How to keep your Collaboration URL clean

I have found when creating a site or page with SharePoint 2010 you get the option for a name of the page or site and also an option to choose the URL.  But when creating a list or library for some reason Microsoft forgot to include that option which is inconsistant.  So we create a library called ‘Finance Document Library’ and it will appear with lots of annoying %20 symbols in.

/Finance%20Document%20Library/Forms/AllItems.aspx

Anyway as good practise I always show my clients how to create a clean URL for a list or library.  We do this by creating the library (or list) as we would expect it in the URL.

Then we go into the document library settings and choose the ‘Title, description and settings’ to rename this correctly.

Now we have a library called ‘Finance Document Library’ but with a URL of:

/financedoclib/forms/AllItems.aspx

This is something I learnt and one that clients I work with really appreciate as it keeps the URL clean but the library name correctly formatted.