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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)

Microsoft Forms

Microsoft 365 Forms or Microsoft Forms is an application that lets you create survey forms, and quizzes. You can create forms and surveys to get information from your coworkers or even from people outside your organization. To create a form, visit https://forms.microsoft.com and log in with your organization account. Once you've logged in, you can create a form or a quiz. The form creation wizard is simple and easy to use, as shown here:

Start by clicking Add new, which lets you add questions. These questions could be simple text boxes, radio buttons, date fields, or rating fields. Once you have added all your questions, you can preview the form by clicking on Preview on the top banner.

The form can be accessed via a link that is generated when you click Share. This link can be public or private to the organization, depending on the sharing settings.

The form creator can look at the responses as they arrive...