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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

Modifying the left navigation

When you create a new team site, SharePoint also creates a navigation menu toward the left of the page. This menu is called the Quick Launch menu. The purpose of the Quick Launch menu is to help the users of your team site quickly get to the different areas within your site.

In this recipe, we will learn how to modify the Quick Launch menu on your site and how to add a link to an existing list within the site.

Getting ready

The Quick Launch menu is only available for team sites (or a team site registered as a hub).

You can edit items in the Quick Launch menu as an owner or member of that site.

Additionally, you will need Owner access or be granted Full Control or Design permissions for your site to change other properties of the Quick Launch menu.

How to do it...

You can follow these steps to edit items in the Quick Launch menu of your site:

  1. Browse to any page on your team site:

Figure 3.40: Edit...