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Hands-On Microsoft Lists

By : João Ferreira, Rene Modery
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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)

Understanding Microsoft Lists view formatting

With Microsoft Lists, you can take customizations to the next level and format the entire view instead of just the columns.

View formatting supports the same formatting methods we saw in the Column formatting section of this book; that is, WYSIWYG and JSON formatting.

In this section, we will explain how to format a view in Microsoft Lists without having to explain the HTML and JSON syntax. If you need help remembering the options that are available for formatting, please check out the Column formatting section of this book.

How to format a list view

Before we start exploring the more technical areas of view formatting, you must know how to format a view.

To gain access to the customization interface, do the following:

  1. Open your list.
  2. Click the View selection option.
  3. From the View selection menu, click on Format current view:
    Figure 7.1 – Microsoft Lists view formatting

    Figure 7.1 – Microsoft Lists view formatting

  4. Upon clicking the format view...