History of Lists

Lists have been an integral part of the SharePoint experience for over 15 years. Allowing users to build simple data management solutions and improving business processes. The development of the Microsoft Lists app allows lists to be easily accessible from applications like Teams. It also gives the SharePoint list a modern facelift and its own mobile app! Below are some additional features of Microsoft Lists.

Lists for Everything

You can use lists to improve business processes across your organization. Lists can be used to manage IT issues, contacts, projects, and other various request forms.

Templates & Excel Imports

Build your lists from scratch or from an existing Microsoft Lists template. You can also import the structure from an existing Excel spreadsheet or an existing Microsoft list.

Custom Views & Rules

You can create custom views to organize and show items that are most important to you, to add filtering or sorting, or to have a more engaging style. Utilize rules with people, status, and value changes to send notifications or programmatically update values elsewhere in the list. Make your lists work for your business process.

Just the beginning

In the Microsoft 365 world Lists can be a building block too much more advanced and robust solutions. The data in lists can be used to build beautiful Power Apps that can replace outdated business processes. You can also utilize Power Automate to take the functionality even further.