Answers.Body: <p>Welcome to Civi! A great place to start is this wiki post about Groups vs Tags vs Custom Fields:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile#content/view/86213742" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile#content/view/86213742</a></p>
  
  <p>There are also sections of the Civi book that might help:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://book.civicrm.org/user/organising-your-data/groups-and-tags/" rel="nofollow">http://book.civicrm.org/user/organising-your-data/groups-and-tags/</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://book.civicrm.org/user/organising-your-data/custom-fields/" rel="nofollow">http://book.civicrm.org/user/organising-your-data/custom-fields/</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Under your 'Administer' menu there's a 'Customize data and screens' and then a "custom fields" option. There you can add all the fields that you need.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I need at least 50 different "categories" or "custom fields". Everything from Contact Info like Name, Address, etc. to specific information that I would have to uniquely name. I am getting extremely confused on how to do any of it. Is there a tutorial on here, or something? I am really new at this.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Civi has core fields for Name and Address, so it would help if you explained why you don't want to use the core fields for these tasks.
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Comments.Text: I apologize, I wasn't very clear. I guess I was just overwhelmed. However my issue is other than the main fields that civi provides, I have several other fields that I would import from a CSV. I have tried setting up these fields so importing would be easy, but nothing I do works. I watched numerous webinars on youtube, with no sucess.
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Comments.Text: if you can spell out the steps you took, with a 'title' that focuses on that, i would expect someone helpful would come along. eg if you go to Customise > Custom Fields and add a field, what is the outcome that happens and what is it that you want to happen. HTH
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Title: How and when should I create custom data fields?
ThreadText: # How and when should I create custom data fields?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-07)
  
  I need at least 50 different "categories" or "custom fields". Everything from Contact Info like Name, Address, etc. to specific information that I would have to uniquely name. I am getting extremely confused on how to do any of it. Is there a tutorial on here, or something? I am really new at this.
  
  **Tags:** contacts, custom-fields, groups, tags
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Civi has core fields for Name and Address, so it would help if you explained why you don't want to use the core fields for these tasks.  
  > **username_0**: I apologize, I wasn't very clear. I guess I was just overwhelmed. However my issue is other than the main fields that civi provides, I have several other fields that I would import from a CSV. I have tried setting up these fields so importing would be easy, but nothing I do works. I watched numerous webinars on youtube, with no sucess.  
  > **username_1**: if you can spell out the steps you took, with a 'title' that focuses on that, i would expect someone helpful would come along. eg if you go to Customise > Custom Fields and add a field, what is the outcome that happens and what is it that you want to happen. HTH  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-12-08. Score: 11
  
  Welcome to Civi! A great place to start is this wiki post about Groups vs Tags vs Custom Fields:
  
  <http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile#content/view/86213742>
  
  There are also sections of the Civi book that might help:
  
  <http://book.civicrm.org/user/organising-your-data/groups-and-tags/>
  
  <http://book.civicrm.org/user/organising-your-data/custom-fields/>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: @erinefree you're very welcome.  
  > **username_3**: @erinefree please do mark this as the best answer if you think it is the most useful one [=  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2015-12-09. Score: 1
  
  Under your 'Administer' menu there's a 'Customize data and screens' and then a "custom fields" option. There you can add all the fields that you need.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: See my most recent question  please  
  
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