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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at different ways to improve our Power Apps canvas apps, such as how to store and manipulate data within our app by using variables, and how to customize our custom theme and make sure that our brand is in place.

We have seen that using standard templates made by Microsoft can help you to learn from an entire application how to build your own or even start work on a template and customize it to fit your needs.

We have learned how to create reusable components, define naming standards, and add comments to our formulas so that we can become more productive when building our apps.

We also saw how to use the enhanced formula bar and how to increase our application's performance by not connecting directly to the data source when it is not needed.

With that in mind, our Power Apps canvas apps will have better architecture, performance, and design, and we will increase our productivity. In the next chapter, we are going to see how we can...