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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 8: Microsoft SharePoint Online (SPO)

Microsoft SharePoint Online (SPO) gives companies using the platform the ability to control access to information and automate workflow processes across business units. You can use SPO to create websites, as a secure place to store, organize, and share content from any device.

SPO is a product that was designed to be a communication, document, and internal information hub, connecting users to data through integration with all the other Microsoft 365 applications.

If you have used Microsoft Teams, all documents and pages inside Teams are stored inside SharePoint. We need to understand what else can be done with this powerful tool.

We will cover the following key topics in this chapter:

  • Using view list formatting – a way to analyze data
  • Field formatting – adding beautiful and functional features to data
  • How to use standard web parts to make better portals
  • Ensuring that documents are organized
  • ...