Duplicate a Microsoft List with content/data?

Question

Hello,

With the new Mircosoft Lists, I see that we can create a template based on an existing List. When we create a new List based off of the template, we get the same formatting and column headings. That is great.

However, we would like to be able to duplicate an entire List, including the content/data.

How can one duplicate a Microsoft List including the data?

Answer 1

Hi Sammatz,

Thanks for using Microsoft products and posting in the community, I'm glad to offer help.

To copy a list including the list contents, you can follow the following steps:

1. Open the source list > Export to Excel.  
2. Open the exported *.iqy file > import it as a table > save the workbook as *.xlsx file.  
3. Go to Microsoft Lists > New list > From Excel > upload the saved workbook (*.xlsx).  
4. Edit the data and create the duplicate list. (You can delete the last two columns ("Item Type" & "Path") after creating the list)  

Hope the above suggestion can be helpful, and please feel free to let me know if you have any concerns, I'll continue to help you.

Best Regards,

Arck

Answer 2

Simplest option:

List settings > save list as template (include content) > add an app > select template.

Downside is the pathetic size limitation.

Answer 3

This may be a super dumb question, but I'm not seeing the "save list as template" when I go into List Settings

Answer 4

Me neither! I checked for it this morning and have sent in a ticket to our Microsoft support rep to ask about the same.

Answer 5

t's under permissions as in screenshot below. Of course knowing Msft you probably have to fiddle around with 2 or 3 layers of nonsense they don't mention anywhere before you see it like enabling custom scripting etc. You can also just use the direct url:

Open list settings and replace listedit.aspx with savetmpl.aspx in the url