Once you find a template that fits your task at hand, click the Use template button, give your list a name, a color, and an icon.

There are 8 templates available (11 in Teams) that cover common scenarios like work progress tracker, asset manager, and employee onboarding – and of course, you can customize the list as you’d like from that starting point.Ĭreating a list from a ready-made, built-in template, including a preview before creation (above). One of the easiest ways to get started with Lists is by using one of the ready-made templates. Learn more how to find and manage your lists – including Favoriting them. Never hesitate to let your lists know they are the star of your information show. When you favorite a list (by clicking the star icon near the list's title), you'll see an action toast notification appear in the upper right. And you can unfavorite a list at any time – simply click the star icon again to Remove this list from your favorites.Ĭlick on the star icon next to a list’s title to favorite a list – from within a list (on the left) and directly from the Lists home page in Microsoft 365 (on the right appears on-hover). Once favorited, the list appears at the top of the Lists home page for web and mobile. You can do this from within the list itself, when you see it within your recent lists on the Lists home page, or within the Lists app for iOS.

Thus, it’s important to be able to make your most important or active information easy and quick to get to.įind the star icon next to your list’s title and click it to Favorite this list. Getting back to work is one of the top actions we do, at the start of our days, when we return from a lunch break, of simply when we have a moment in the in-between. You’ll also find a new episode of The Intrazone, “Top 5 hidden gems: Microsoft Lists” – covering the 5 gems and audio snippets from Jeff Teper and Andrea Lum. On to the gems, mixed with targeted tips and tricks, and links to relevant documentation.

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