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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster

Overview of this book

Microsoft 365 offers tools for content management, communication, process automation, and report creation. Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook maximizes workplace collaboration and productivity using SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Delve, M365 Search, Copilot, Power Platform, Viva, Planner, and Microsoft Forms. You will find thoroughly updated recipes for SharePoint Online, covering sites, lists, libraries, pages, web parts, and learn SharePoint Framework (SPFx) basics for building solutions. You will explore many Microsoft Teams recipes to prepare it to be your organization’s central collaboration hub. You will be able to unlock Power Platform potential with recipes for Power Apps to enable low-code/no-code app development and learn to automate tasks with Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop. The book teaches you data visualization with Power BI, and chatbot creation with Power Virtual Agents (Copilot Studio). Finally, you will also learn about the cutting-edge Copilot and Gen AI functionality in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. By the end, you will be equipped with skills to effectively use Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, and the Power Platform. Whether it's enhancing career prospects or improving business operations, this book is a perfect companion on your journey through the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps

Copilot is integrated into a huge variety of software offered by Microsoft 365. This means that you don’t need to go online and interact with a chatbot to use Copilot – it can be accessed on the interface you are already working on. This helps a ton with convenience, and, as we’ll see, it enables you to use Copilot for quick assistance while working on all sorts of projects, similar to how you use the spell-checker in Word to quickly check spelling and grammar.

In this section, we’ll take a broad look at how you can use Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Loop, Whiteboard, OneNote, Stream, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Viva. We recommend that you pinpoint the software that interests you and jump ahead to that section.

Copilot in Word

Microsoft 365 has taken the leap of integrating Copilot in Word for document creation and editing. In this section, we’ll take a bite-sized look at the core capabilities...