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Hands-On Microsoft Lists

By : João Ferreira, Rene Modery
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Book Image

Hands-On Microsoft Lists

5 (1)
By: João Ferreira, Rene Modery

Overview of this book

Microsoft Lists is an extremely flexible and powerful platform for creating custom data models. Hands-On Microsoft Lists is an easy-to-read guide for those who want to get started with Lists, as well as those who are already familiar with the basic concepts and want to create custom and flexible Lists that are easily available through a web interface. This comprehensive introduction to Lists will show you how to get up to speed in no time with the help of practical guidance and examples. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, you’ll understand how to use and implement Microsoft Lists effectively. You’ll start by covering all the basic concepts that will help you to build your Microsoft Lists and get the most out of the platform. As you progress, you’ll explore how to customize Microsoft Lists layouts and forms. Later chapters will guide you through integrating Microsoft Lists with the Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll work with practical scenarios that you can use daily to improve the collaboration in your organization. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll have learned how to create custom data models to improve the way your data is put together, managed, and consumed in your workplace.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

What are the out-of-the-box Microsoft Lists features?

The Microsoft Lists application comes with several out-of-the-box features that will help you to build your own lists to manage your work and to collaborate with your co-workers.

To better help you understand each one of these features, we will describe them throughout the chapter with real-world scenarios whenever this is justified.

Column types

Column types are the main foundation of Lists, as you saw in Chapter 2, Creating Your First List. Each column has a data type associated with it that is responsible for the way data is displayed and stored in lists.

Microsoft Lists has a very complete set of column types that will allow you to easily define text, images, and locations, among other things. In the following list, you can find a definition for all the column types you will find when creating a new column:

  • Single line of text: This is the most basic column type you will find in Lists. You must use it whenever...