Lists app rolls out for Microsoft Teams
The Lists app allows you to manage data and tasks easily across your team.
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What you need to know
Microsoft Teams now supports the Lists app for all commercial and Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers. Microsoft first announced Lists at Build 2020, and the feature is now generally available. The feature allows you to track information and organize your team’s work. Lists uses customizable views, smart rules, and alerts to help keep people in sync and to organize content.
The Lists app within Teams supports templates and creating lists from scratch. It has built-in templates for tracking patients, financial loans, and incidents. You can also create Lists from Excel table data and from existing lists.
Microsoft highlights five core features of the Lists app in a recenttech community post:
To create a list, you go through a similar process to adding any tab to Microsoft Teams. You click the plus button within a channel and select the Lists app.
Lists works with messaging features such as rich text, stickers, emojis, and mentions, so you can collaborate around a specific list to make sure that everyone is on the same page. Microsoft also has aclick-through demoto help you learn how to use Lists.
Microsoft Teams allows you to collaborate with colleagues, upload files, send messages, and chat through video. It integrates with Office 365 and several other cloud services.
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