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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)

PowerPoint – Design Ideas

Design Ideas is an interesting feature that helps you make your presentations more beautiful. To access Design Ideas, which is powered by AI, click on Design and then the Design Ideas button, as shown in Figure 15.12:

Figure 15.12– Design Ideas with Microsoft PowerPoint

On the right pane (Figure 15.13), you will find multiple suggestions for every slide. You can select the best design idea to fit your purpose, improving your presentation:

Figure 15.13 – Selecting from the design suggestions

Microsoft PowerPoint has become an incredibly versatile and robust tool for building presentations and even Power BI layouts, as we saw in Chapter 14, Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI. Regularly displaying data in a clear, objective, and beautiful way is possible with Microsoft 365, and this can be done in presentations or even directly in your data sources and spreadsheets, as we will see in...