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Microsoft Lists - how to move?
Is there a way to move a List, e.g. from my personal space to an Office365 Group? There does not seem to be a way to do this other than using workaround of export & import to Excel. However,...
LeslieP I hear you. Excel's flexibility has made it this one-stop-shop for a lot of this type of work. If it's working for you, then keep it going. The M365 suite has so many different apps, but they all have limitations or dependencies. The MOCA really highlights how 'noisy' the app collection we have is - I think it's just a case where you pick what's going to fit the way you work.
Where I see Lists working really well is when you're pairing it up with Power Automate and other services. But like you mentioned, that's a different skill set that's not available to everyone.
The problem is that "excel as a database" isn't working. It's awful. People need and want something like Airtable, Seatable, Baserow, Grist, etc - the familiar spreadsheet interface with the fields and connectivity of a relational database, able to be set up, modified, and understood by a normal person. I had hoped that Lists was Microsoft's attempt to catch up and participate in that arena. It seems not.