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Discover how lists can be used and edited within a board.
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Lists
Discover how lists can be used and edited within a board.
When to use
To get familiar with adding new lists to a board. To learn how to edit and move lists within a board.
Instructions
Adding a List
- Select the Add a list... option located directly below the board name.
- Enter a name and select either the Save button or press enter on your computer.
- The Add a list... option will always be displayed directly to the right of your last list.
Renaming a List
- Select the list name and enter or revise the name of the list.
Moving a List
- Select a list by clicking and holding the list while dragging it to the desired position. When you've reached the desired location, release the list.
- You can also move a list by selecting the list options icon in the top right corner of the list. Selecting Move List... will allow you to move the list to another board or another position on the current board.
Archiving a List
- Select the list options icon in the top right corner of the list.
- Select Archive List... to remove the list and all of its contents from the board.
- Since the list is archived, it can always be retrieved later if desired.
- 00:04 Now that we have our Trello board set up, let's see how we can add lists to our
- 00:09 board, and how lists function within the Trello application.
- 00:14 To add a list, select the add a list option here.
- 00:18 You will need to give your list a name.
- 00:21 I'm going to start off by giving this one the label of Notes.
- 00:25 Now I can either select the green Save button or
- 00:29 I can select Enter on my keyboard.
- 00:31 By doing so,
- 00:33 it will automatically get me ready to enter in the name of a second list.
- 00:38 And this can be very helpful when first setting up a Trello board.
- 00:42 Because most likely you will want to set up several lists.
- 00:47 I'm gonna label the second one Projects.
- 00:50 And then I'm going to add a third one, which I'm going to call Tasks.
- 00:55 Now instead of adding a fourth list,
- 00:57 I can just click anywhere here on my Trello board.
- 01:01 And here you can see that the Add a list option will
- 01:04 always be made available to the right of your last list.
- 01:09 No matter if you have 3 lists, like you see here, or 33 lists, there will
- 01:15 always be the ability to add additional lists to the right of your final list.
- 01:21 Now you can always go back and rename your lists.
- 01:24 By clicking on the list name, you can give it a different name if you desire.
- 01:30 You also have the ability to move your lists around.
- 01:34 Simply click the top of the list and hold, and you can drag your list to the left or
- 01:40 the right and put it in any order that you wish.
- 01:44 Now, many Trello boards are designed to be in some type of
- 01:49 workflow often from the left working its way to the right.
- 01:54 You may wish to have some information or to have some cards here on
- 01:58 the left that you wish to pass or push through in some type of process.
- 02:04 Of course, this is not required.
- 02:06 It's not necessary.
- 02:07 And you can set up your list any way that you like within your Trello board.
- 02:12 Now there's a few other additional options that we can make to our lists.
- 02:18 In the top right hand corner we have some further list actions that we can take.
- 02:24 One of them is the ability to copy a list.
- 02:28 This can be helpful if you have a large number of information or
- 02:33 a large number of cards within a list and
- 02:35 you'd like to copy it either to somewhere else on this board or to a separate board.
- 02:41 You also have the option to move your list by selecting this option.
- 02:45 Not only can you change the position of the list, but
- 02:49 you can actually move it to another board that you own.
- 02:53 I could select, for example, this Product Development board, and
- 02:57 move this list to that board.
- 03:00 But maybe I just wanna change the position in my current board.
- 03:04 Here it shows that it's currently in the second position and by selecting 3 and
- 03:09 then by selecting the Move button I can move this list to the final area.
- 03:14 The last thing that can be helpful in the additional list actions area
- 03:19 is the ability to archive a list.
- 03:22 If you have no further need for this list, you can select this option and
- 03:26 it will be removed from your board.
- 03:29 But fortunately it will only be archived.
- 03:31 So in case you do need to go back and
- 03:33 access this information you can retrieve it at a later time.
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