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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)

Excel – using Flash Fill

Flash Fill is one of the most sensational features of Excel. Besides being very easy to use, it brings us incredible productivity. It is a relatively old feature (Excel 2013), but I only discovered it about 2 years ago, and since then, I have used it for several situations. It is possible that you don't know about it either, but after this topic, you will have a greater appreciation for Excel.

Let's imagine that I am publishing an article where I must fill in all the bibliographic references of books I used. The references have a pattern, and I only have the complete information, but they are not standardized. Normally, a referencing style pattern is LASTNAME, Name. Book Name (Year).

I have built a spreadsheet with a list of books, as shown in Figure 15.16. For brevity's sake, I have only used a few books in this example, but in a published article, numerous references would probably be used:

Figure 15...