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Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide

By : Gustavo Moraes, Douglas Romao
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Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide

By: Gustavo Moraes, Douglas Romao

Overview of this book

With its extensive set of tools and features for improving productivity and collaboration, Microsoft 365 is being widely adopted by organizations worldwide. This book will help not only developers but also business people and those working with information to discover tips and tricks for making the most of the apps in the Microsoft 365 suite. The Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide is a compendium of best practices and tips to leverage M365 apps for effective collaboration and productivity. You'll find all that you need to work efficiently with the apps in the Microsoft 365 family in this complete, quick-start guide that takes you through the Microsoft 365 apps that you can use for your everyday activities. You'll learn how to boost your personal productivity with Microsoft Delve, MyAnalytics, Outlook, and OneNote. To enhance your communication and collaboration with teams, this book shows you how to make the best use of Microsoft OneDrive, Whiteboard, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams. You'll also be able to be on top of your tasks and your team's activities, automating routines, forms, and apps with Microsoft Planner, To-Do, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. By the end of this book, you'll have understood the purpose of each Microsoft 365 app, when and how to use it, and learned tips and tricks to achieve more with M365.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Using actions to organize your flows

The organization of your flows may never be definitive and sufficient, especially because in most cases, our flows are growing and doing more and more things for us. This is the essence of automation, and the motto of Power Automate is "Take care of what's important. Automate the rest".

So, organizing will always be necessary. In the next few paragraphs, we will see various tools that we can use in our organization. Let's get started:

  • Action name

In our examples, we saw that the names were all with the name of the action that comes by default, such as "Compose." If we keep the original name, we will not be able to understand the action's purpose or importance.

Inside Power Automate, we can give our actions any name without disturbing or hindering the flow. We must give short names to our actions that make sense, for example, Store item ID and Convert Item price to USD.

  • Action comments...