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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)

Mentioning someone in an email

To mention someone in an email, you just must use the @ symbol and the name or email ID. This person will automatically be added to the recipients list (To), as you can see in Figure 4.9:

Figure 4.9 – Mentioning someone in an email

Mentioning someone in an email is helpful because for the recipient, the @ sign applies rules or assigns higher priority to emails that mention them (Figure 4.10):

Figure 4.10 – Receiving an email that mentioned you

If you are like me, you may respond to emails after regular working hours. In my case, I prefer to answer emails at the end of Friday so that I can act on any pending items and clean my inbox as a productivity ritual to start the next week fresh.

Although I send emails at the end of Friday, I do not expect people to answer those messages over the weekend. In fact, working on weekends is bad behavior that may harm the productivity and morale of your...