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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)

From a form to a Power BI dashboard

Analyzing the survey data on our dashboard more deeply can be done simply if our form was created in Excel. We just connected our Power BI to the source Excel file and thus built the charts; however, most Microsoft forms are not created this way.

To analyze the answers of forms that were not made in Excel, it is necessary to export the answers to be able to use them as a data source in Power BI. This manual work makes it difficult to act and analyze in real time, which is required in certain scenarios.

Let's use an example of a form that is available globally to collect complaints about environmental deforestation. The faster these complaints appear in the indicators and generate alerts, the more chance there is of action being effective. To technically set up this scenario, we will use three tools that we have already seen in this book (Microsoft Forms, Power Automate, and Power BI), and with them, we will have the form data in real time...