# Lists

> View, search and sort your contact lists, open a list to work with its contacts, split a large list, mark a whole list Do Not Call, and delete lists safely.

- Section: Using the app (manual) › Contacts & lists
- Web page: https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/lists
- Video: placeholder — "Working with lists" (not yet recorded)

A **list** is a group of contacts you work with together, for example one import, one lead source or one campaign audience. You use lists to choose who to call, text or email. A contact can be on several lists at once.

Lists are created three ways:

- By [importing a spreadsheet](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/importing-contacts.md). Each import makes a new list.
- From [contact search results](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/contacts.md#create-a-list-from-your-search-results).
- By splitting an existing list (below).

## Before you start

What you can do here depends on your role. Deleting lists, for example, needs delete permission for lists. See [Team members](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/team-members.md).

## View your lists

1. Click **Lists** in the top navigation.
2. Use **Search here...** to find a list by name.
3. Use the sort control to order by **Date** or **Name**. Click the arrow next to it to flip the order.

The table shows each list's **Name**, **Date**, number of **Contacts**, **Tags** and actions under **Details**.

## Open a list

1. Click **View List**.
2. The list's contacts are shown with **Name**, **Company**, **Address**, **Email**, **Phone**, **Tags**, **Last Note** and **Creation Date/Time**.
3. Use **Search here...** to find a contact in the list.

From a contact's row you can:

- Click **Edit** to change the contact's details. See [Contacts](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/contacts.md#edit-a-contact).
- Remove a tag from the contact by clicking the tag's remove icon.
- Click **Delete** to delete the contact. Confirm with **Yes, Delete it!**

**Delete** on a contact row deletes the contact itself, not just its place on this list. It disappears from every list.

## Mark a whole list Do Not Call

1. Open the list.
2. Click **Mark DNC**.
3. Confirm with **Yes, Mark DNC!**

Every contact in the list is marked Do Not Call. The confirmation warns that this can't be undone, so check you've picked the right list. While the marking is running, you can't start it again on the same list. You need permission to change DNC status.

## Split a list

Splitting makes several smaller lists from one big one, for example to spread calls across days.

1. On the Lists page, click **Split List**.
2. In **How many contacts per list?**, enter the size of each new list.
3. Confirm with **Yes, split it!**

Bigly creates new lists named after the original with `-1`, `-2` and so on, each with up to that many contacts. They keep the original list's tags. The original list isn't changed.

The number is the size of each new list, not the number of lists. Entering 500 for a list of 2,000 contacts makes four lists.

## Delete a list

1. On the Lists page, click **Delete List**.
2. Confirm with **Yes, delete it!**

When you delete an imported list, Bigly also deletes its contacts that are **only** on that list **and** have never been called, texted or emailed. Contacts on other lists, or with any history, are kept. Lists made by splitting never delete contacts.

## Other buttons

| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Sync to PureCaller** | Sends the list to PureCaller for caller ID branding. Only useful if your account uses PureCaller. |
| **Identity** | Matches the list's contacts against identity data. Shown only on accounts with this add-on. Opens **Sync With Identity Management Data**; click **Sync** to start. |

## Common questions

**Can I add tags to a whole list?** Tags you add when importing are applied to every contact in that import. See [Importing contacts](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/importing-contacts.md).

**Can I add more contacts to an existing list?** Import a new file, or build a list from search results.

## Related

- [Importing contacts](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/importing-contacts.md)
- [Contacts](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/contacts.md)
- [Tags](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/tags.md)
- [Calls](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/calls.md)
- [SMS campaigns](https://docs.biglysales.com/manual/sms-campaigns.md)

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