How to build a SharePoint view in grouping items by the first letter of the Title field

Let's imagine a SharePoint list where you want to group the items by the first letter of the Title field.



The first thing you have to do is to go in the Settings menu and to select Create Column.



In the Create Column page, enter Initial as Column name and select Calculated as type of information.
As soon as you have selected Calculated, you will have the possibility to enter a formula. Enter =UPPER(LEFT(Title,1)) as Formula and select Single line of text as data type returned by the formula.
To complete this operation, click on OK.



Then you will see on the view, the new column displaying the first letter of the Title field.



The next operation is to group the items by this new column. So, click on Modify this view in View dropdown list.



In the Edit View page, go to the Group By section and select Initial as First group by the column. Then click on OK to complete this operation.



Now, you can see that the view displays the items group the items by the first letter of the Title field.