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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

Searching within Teams

When you are a member of a vast number of teams, finding specific information you need can become a challenge. That is where the search functionality within Teams comes to the rescue. The search function lets you search for people, conversations/messages, and documents, as well as the contents of documents. The search box provided in Teams' interface serves as both a search and a command box.

To search for messages, people, or files, follow the instructions provided in the next section.

Getting ready

The search feature within Teams is available to everyone. However, you can only search for content you have access to.

How to do it...

To search for a message, person, or file:

  1. Type the word or phrase you are searching for in the search box. In this example, we will search for the word everyone. The search results are grouped under three topics—Messages, People, and Files:

    Figure 8.66: Teams Search
  2. Clicking on a search result will reveal the contents...