Microsoft Lists Essentials (2025)

This Bigger Brains course is taught by Samantha Gregory, an experienced Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft 365 trainer, who will show you how to work more productively with Microsoft Lists. 

Gregrory explains the purpose of Lists, its key features and benefits, and provides a comparison of Lists with other Microsoft Office tools. You’ll learn how to manage, enter, edit, and export data, and how to navigate the interface.  

You’ll see how to create and customize lists and how to manage those lists by creating rules, applying conditional formatting, creating custom views, and applying filters and sorts. You’ll also learn how to share your lists in Teams and SharePoint for collaboration with others, and even how to create a Form directly from a list.  

Topics covered include: 

• Efficiently managing data in Lists 

• Entering and editing items 

• Exporting data for further analysis 

• Accessing Lists from multiple locations 

• Navigating the interface 

• Creating new lists from scratch and from templates 

• Adding and modifying columns  

• Organizing and managing a list 

• Sharing lists with team members 

• Setting permissions and access levels 

• Collaborating in real-time on Lists 

• Creating a Form from a list 

Enjoy award winning HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style! Taught by top subject matter experts, Bigger Brains courses are professionally designed around key learning objectives and include captions and transcripts in 29 languages, downloadable handouts, and optional LinkedIn digital badges on course completion.