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Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide

By : Gustavo Moraes, Douglas Romao
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Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide

By: Gustavo Moraes, Douglas Romao

Overview of this book

With its extensive set of tools and features for improving productivity and collaboration, Microsoft 365 is being widely adopted by organizations worldwide. This book will help not only developers but also business people and those working with information to discover tips and tricks for making the most of the apps in the Microsoft 365 suite. The Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide is a compendium of best practices and tips to leverage M365 apps for effective collaboration and productivity. You'll find all that you need to work efficiently with the apps in the Microsoft 365 family in this complete, quick-start guide that takes you through the Microsoft 365 apps that you can use for your everyday activities. You'll learn how to boost your personal productivity with Microsoft Delve, MyAnalytics, Outlook, and OneNote. To enhance your communication and collaboration with teams, this book shows you how to make the best use of Microsoft OneDrive, Whiteboard, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams. You'll also be able to be on top of your tasks and your team's activities, automating routines, forms, and apps with Microsoft Planner, To-Do, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. By the end of this book, you'll have understood the purpose of each Microsoft 365 app, when and how to use it, and learned tips and tricks to achieve more with M365.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Chapter 11: Doing More with Microsoft Power Automate

Nowadays, all companies, from small to multinational, use various software. It is increasingly rare to find a company that does not use software. We have a service, an app, or even a website for everything, from image generation to complex payment systems; we have software and more software. At the beginning of 2021, I read an article that showed 25 social networks that you had to know for 2021… I cannot keep even 2 of my social networks up to date!

For some time, the demand for IT people has been growing exponentially. However, if it was scarce years ago, today, it has become increasingly difficult to meet organizations' needs for more and more apps. As a result, about 37% of company processes are still based on paper! Important documents are still being written in pen and on clipboards, being subject to errors and with little chance of generating insights and taking timely action.

To solve a large part of this...