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Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide

By : Gustavo Moraes, Douglas Romao
Book Image

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)

Getting help from the Scheduling Assistant

The Scheduling Assistant is very useful. You can access it by creating an appointment, as shown in Figure 4.6. At the top of the ribbon, click on the tab for Scheduling Assistant:

Figure 4.6 – Creating an appointment

You just must add optional and required attendees, and the Scheduling Assistant will show when they are available! As you can see in Figure 4.7, this feature saves you from sending multiple emails to schedule a meeting with a large group:

Figure 4.7 – Scheduling Assistant

Important Note

Scheduling Assistant does not work for people outside your organization because you will not have permission to view their calendars. To solve this problem, Microsoft acquired an add-on called FindTime (https://findtime.microsoft.com). It is similar to the native feature but allows all attendees to vote on proposed times, even if they are from other companies.

By using these...