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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)

Field validations and form themes

As we saw earlier, Forms allows modifications so that our research can help the user, bringing ease and guidance. If you have been to a medical center, you may have had to fill out a section of a medical record that asks whether you underwent any surgery, after which you may have had to fill in a section that asked whether you underwent any specific surgery. The more detailed the information requested is, the more effective we can make our form, avoiding, in addition to inaccurate data, financial losses and even credibility losses.

First of all, we have the simplest feature of all, which is to make the Required field available to fill, which is already seen when creating the question. However, we can further modify most types of questions through the ... option, which we have already seen in the previous section for Add branching:

  • For text questions, these are the options:
    • Long answer: We can make the answer a long text, but this modification...