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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak

Overview of this book

Microsoft Office 365 provides tools for managing organizational tasks like content management, communication, report creation, and business automation processes. With this book, you'll get to grips with popular apps from Microsoft, enabling workspace collaboration and productivity using Microsoft SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. In addition to guiding you through the implementation of Microsoft 365 apps, this practical guide helps you to learn from a Microsoft consultant's extensive experience of working with the Microsoft business suite. This cookbook covers recipes for implementing SharePoint Online for various content management tasks. You'll learn how to create sites for your organization and enhance collaboration across the business and then see how you can boost productivity with apps such as Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Planner, Delve, and M365 Groups. You'll find out how to use the Power Platform to make the most of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Finally, the book focuses on the SharePoint framework, which helps you to build custom Teams and SharePoint solutions. By the end of the book, you will be ready to use Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online to enhance business productivity using a broad set of tools.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Office apps

Microsoft Office has become an integral part of every organization. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook have been shown to be the most popular applications. According to Microsoft, there are over 1 billion Microsoft Office users in the world using Office apps on a day-to-day basis, hence it is no surprise that Microsoft devoted its attention to building mobile apps for these applications.

Currently, there are Android and iOS apps for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. However, Microsoft is planning to merge them together into one Microsoft Office app.

The usage of Office apps on mobile devices has gone up significantly. 100 million people (https://m365book.page.link/office-mobile) use Outlook on a phone. Having an app on the phone saves you from sitting at your work desk, allowing you to be productive even when you are on the go.

The Microsoft Outlook app lets you connect multiple email accounts in one place and be able to view all your...