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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)

Chapter 13: Getting Information with Microsoft Forms

Collecting and analyzing information is a task that is done daily by many people. We collect simple information, such as the variation in a factory's water consumption, to make decisions, assess the quality of a new product from a company, and so on.

With growing technology, it has become easy to collect information from people, which previously was a tedious procedure where people had to go from door to door to ask questions and collect answers. Today, information can be gathered through a digital form that can be accessed from anywhere, with numerous advantages. (Personally, my favorite advantage is automatic filling.) In addition to suffering from bad handwriting, hospitals and any other companies that still use paper to fill out forms are prone to errors that are not performant or even scalable.

Within our company, we do not always go to every employee in person for their opinion. But collecting and analyzing their...