Seeing who else is looking at your list in Microsoft Lists

If you’re in a Microsoft modern list, there’s a cool feature you may not have noticed. In the upper-right corner, you can see who else might be using that list at the same time you are. This is how that looks…

Using the new Forms feature in Microsoft Lists

Today we had a bit of a surprise in that the new Forms feature in Microsoft Lists showed up. At first you had to be in the Microsoft Lists experience, but now it seems to be showing up on all your modern SharePoint lists that you access via SharePoint. I’m going to explain a bit about how it works, and why I think you should hold off a bit before committing to this path…

New list view layout in SharePoint Online

When looking at a SharePoint list earlier this week, I saw that Microsoft rolled out some changes to how a list and associated views are laid out on a page. Here’s the visual changes and what they do…

Creating calendar views for your SharePoint Online lists

While a tabular list makes sense for much of the data you store in a SharePoint list, sometimes it makes more sense to show the list items in a calendar view format. Fortunately, it’s easy to generate a calendar view in your SharePoint Online lists. Here’s how to do that…

Using Undo/Redo in SharePoint Online Lists

Have you ever been making updates in a SharePoint Online list using Grid View, and you notice that you incorrectly updated a field that’s updated the list item… or worse, deleted something that shouldn’t have been deleted? Well, you’ll love the new Undo/Redo feature in SharePoint Online lists. Here’s how it works…

Creating SharePoint Online lists from templates

As part of the changes for Microsoft Lists, there’s been a refresh on how you create new lists in SharePoint Online. One of the more interesting changes is a set of pre-defined templates you can use to get started on a new list. It’s a great starting point for building out a list that fits your needs. Here’s how it works…

Expand/Collapse button in SharePoint lists

If you’re fortunate enough to work with a large-screen monitor, you may not have much of a problem with how much data displays in a SharePoint list. But if you’re on a laptop with a smaller screen, you might find that screen real estate is in short supply. You can gain a bit of that real estate back by using the Expand/Collapse button in SharePoint lists. Here’s how that works…