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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)

Workplace and personal productivity

How can you become more productive without a proper understanding of your working habits? If I asked you how much time you spend on emails, you probably would guess a quantity lower than the real number of hours, and the same for meetings and other tasks that do not add value to our work.

Research says that multitasking is a massive waste of time because we can only focus on a single task at a time (https://www.apa.org/research/action/multitask). On top of context switching, people who multitask tend to stay busy all the time, are incapable of setting priorities, and end up wasting time on low-value activities.

The first step to addressing low productivity is to track how you spend your time, according to productivity experts such as David Allen, author of Getting Things Done. Microsoft MyAnalytics makes it easier for you to analyze information by recording and aggregating data about your work across all Microsoft 365 applications.

As you...