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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)

Using the enhanced formula bar

The formula bar is where you can express all functions and actions from your controls to interact within your app, and hence, it is one of the most widely used features within Power Apps Studio.

Since its launch, a lot of improvements have been delivered, but the most expressive one was the enhanced formula bar.

Important Note

This was initially delivered as an experimental change, before moving to preview, and now it is part of the standard formula bar, so if you are starting to work with the formula bar now, it might not work with the previous version.

Some of the key differences regarding the previous formula bar will be detailed in the following sections.

Expanding/collapsing the formula bar

A common complaint from app makers and community developers was that as apps became more complex, longer formulas were needed, and the experience was not that good.

With Expand/Collapse, we have a way to open the formula bar and can have a...