How to get the GUID of a SharePoint List

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1. Go to the list settings page.
2. Right click on "Title, description and navigation" and copy the shortcut.

3. Ctrl-V into notepad.
4. Everything after "List=" in the string is your URL Encoded GUID for the list.

This can be decoded with Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPEncode.UrlDecodeAsUrl();

or as needed by the wonderful utility at meyerweb.com