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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

Creating a document library

A library is a secure place in SharePoint where you can upload, create, edit, and manage files for online sharing and collaboration with your team. Just like lists, each library comes with key built-in columns that automatically store default information about each file, such as who created the file and when, and who last modified it and when. You can always add your own columns to the library, just as you would for a list. Each SharePoint site ships with one or more libraries to enable you to store files within the site. Libraries can be of different types. A document library is the most used type of library. As the name suggests, it is used to store, manage, and share documents. The Site pages library is used to store and manage pages and news items. The Inbuilt list and library templates topic of the Creating a list using a built-in list template recipe in Chapter 4, Lists and Libraries in SharePoint Online, provides a list of all the inbuilt templates...