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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

Deleting and restoring a file

In this recipe, you will learn how to delete a SharePoint document and then restore it from your site’s recycle bin.

Getting ready

You will need to be able to access a document library in a SharePoint site for which you have at least Contribute permission or higher. You will usually have this permission if you are part of the Site owners or Site members groups for the site containing the library.

How to do it...

To delete a file:

  1. Select the ellipsis () next to a file, then Delete.

Figure 2.40: Deleting a file from an item’s context menu

  1. Confirm the deletion on the pop-up dialog by selecting Delete. Watch for the status notification in the upper-right corner letting you know the file was successfully deleted:

    Figure 2.41: Deletion notification

    To restore a file:

  1. Select Recycle Bin from the left-hand navigation menu (team sites only) or follow the Viewing...