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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)

Copying text from a picture

For readers, workers, and students, a large part of the content they consume is on paper, and even if you've kept organized by using folders and the best life hacks, it can be difficult to easily find a passage you need within these files. If you need a particular text or even just a part of it, you would have to spend a lot of time transposing or using a scanner and expensive Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications to capture this text and use it digitally.

OneNote, our free notebook, has OCR functionality built in that can easily identify the text in any image pasted onto its pages. This feature is easy to use for photos and scans not only documents but also cards, business cards, and even printed shirts.

The operation of this feature is very simple: just paste any image into Microsoft OneNote and it will automatically recognize the text! If the text is in another language, you can define which language the text is in so that it performs...