There’ve been times were I’ve created custom lists in SharePoint 2007 and found the title item to be a bit of a nuisance. I didn’t know how to hide the title field since it was a default until now.

Steps:

• Create the list in SharePoint
  (Notice my list has the title field as required)

• Go to Settings in the list
• Click on List Settings
  
• Click on Advance Settings under General Settings
• Next to Content Types – select Yes
  
• Click OK
  
• Under Content Types heading click on Item
  
• Under Columns – Click Title
  
• Next to Site Column Information – click Edit column in new window
• When the new window opens up – click No to Require that this column contains information
• Click OK and close window
• Back to the Content Type page- Next to Column Settings click Hidden (Will not appear in forms)
  
• Click Ok
  
• Go back to your list and notice your title field in now hidden and doesn’t appear in the form.

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