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I will reiterate that most my posts are not for the true SharePoint Developer. Those using Visual Studio to do most, if not all, of this custom application will find better ways for the most part. No, this post is for people who want to use SharePoint out of the box and then have found themselves using SharePoint Designer workflows. A reoccurring problem I have is that when I create a SharePoint Designer Workflow and decide later I need to redo it. I create a workflow that assigns a task and name that say "Task 1". This creates a list content type and a site content type. Later I delete that section of my workflow, but I go back later to add it again, choosing the name it Task 1 again, but you get an error messaging stating it is already in use. Knowing full well you were the one that deleted it, how do you go about using that same name? First, go to you Task list settings. There will be a section called Content Types. Select the one you want (in this case Task 1) and d...