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JayMay
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Aug 04, 2025

Microsoft List (Preview) issues

Good morning, I hope someone can help. I am a private user, (with a Microsoft 365 Personal account, + addit. 600gb cloud storage) on my PC.   I don't use sharepoint, or teams, the app is standalone...
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JayMay's avatar
JayMay
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Aug 07, 2025

Thankyou for your reply, OK yes - I see and appreciate that it is tied to a 200mb per list limit. 
I still have other questions however, based on your response.

1. As I have a Microsoft personal account, not a business one, I'm confused about how to get access to the full version of Microsoft Lists, as I understand it can be standalone, through Teams, and through SharePoint. 
Can you explain the various ways I can get it?
2. I see there is a Q and A.  Is Microsoft Lists discontinued? - Starting mid-November 2025, users will no longer be able to install or use the Microsoft Lists mobile app.  Is there any risk with the PC desktop app?
3. If I were able to obtain a full version of the Lists app, would my current 'preview' list be able to be carried over to it?  I certainly don't want to lose all my work.

Thanks for your input, I very much appreciate it.





  • PankajBadoni's avatar
    PankajBadoni
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 07, 2025

    The full version of Microsoft Lists is available only with Microsoft 365 business subscriptions.

    Microsoft Lists is not being discontinued. Only the mobile app will stop working in November 2025.
    You can still access your lists on mobile using a web browser.

    I am not aware that Microsoft has released any migration tool for moving from the MSA Preview to the full version.
    You can either:

    • Use a commercial migration tool, or
    • Manually export your lists and attachments, then upload them to the full version.

     

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    • JayMay's avatar
      JayMay
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 10, 2025

      Thankyou for your response again.
      Would you please explain a little further.

      • Can you give an example of a "commercial migration tool" that would work in my situation?
      • When you say manually export, you mean by using excel? csv? etc.
      • is there ANY way to save the current list to another format, other than Csv, or to print it, without having to screenshot every page? 
      • Once I have a list, is there any way two lists can be merged in the preview version? or the full version?
      • Lastly, where are my lists (in the preview version) stored?  There doesn't seem to be a way to 'save' the list myself, therefore no way to print it.     
        In the full version, is there a way to 'save' the list? on my One Drive for example? that would mean I could print it if I wanted to?

      I wish I hadn't made the big catalogue on the Preview version. I should have been more careful about checking that it had the functions I need, but I find it bizarre that the preview version is not very user-friendly past the 'making' stage.

    • JayMay's avatar
      JayMay
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 09, 2025

      Thankyou for your response.
      a)Can you give an example of a 'commercial migration tool' that may be used in this way, and
      b) Can you explain how to manually export the list, along with the attachments? Then, how would you upload it to the full version.  
      I have no experience in doing this, so if you could explain that would be much appreciated.
      and c) - is there a way to divide my current big list, into smaller lists within preview,  without losing the images that are attached?   If tthe list limit is 200mb EACH list, then I may be able to do that.
      Thankyou,
      Jenny

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