# Label a file

Put one or more of your labels on a file, or take them off, from the file's menu in any list that has one.

Labels go on from the same place wherever you are: the menu at the end of a file's row. That menu is on every file in **My Folders**, **Team Folders**, **Recent Files** and a label's own list.

## Add or remove labels

- Point at the file's row and select the three dots at its right-hand end.
- Select **Label**.

  ![The menu for the file Board Pack - Q2 2026.pdf in the Board Packs folder. Its entries are Favorite, Label, Rename, Move, Share, Activity, Download, Properties and, in red, Delete.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/labels/file-menu-label.png)
- Select each label the file should carry, so it shows a tick. Select a ticked label to take it off.

  ![The panel headed Labels for Board Pack - Q2 2026.pdf. Six labels are listed with their colour dots: Awaiting sign-off, Reference, Urgent, Board, Compliance and Finance. Board is highlighted with an orange tick. Create new label sits at the foot of the panel.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/labels/label-picker.png)
- Select **Save**. The button appears once something has changed; closing the panel without it changes nothing.

When you have more labels than the panel can show, the list scrolls. Here the seventh, **Client-facing**, sits just below **Finance**.

## What labelling does and doesn't do

- **It groups the file**: The file appears in that label's list straight away, alongside every other file with the same label.
- **It leaves the file where it is**: No move, no copy. The file stays in its folder with the same name.
- **It leaves colleagues' labels alone**: Saving changes only your labels on the file. Any a colleague has added stay exactly as they were.
- **It shows in the file's history**: The file's Activity records that you updated labels, without saying which.

> **Note:**
>
> Labels are for files. A folder's menu has no **Label** entry, so to group a folder's contents, label the files inside it.