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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)

Chapter 6: Working from Anywhere with Microsoft OneDrive

In the last two decades, we have seen countless changes in technology, especially when it comes to computers and the internet, and we are increasingly immersed in these technologies. Few could have imagined about five years ago that many services would be online, much less as Software as a Service (SaaS), where we pay a monthly fee for taking advantage of an online service.

Along with this, there has been a drastic change in hardware. We used to have computers with little processing, but we always had space free on our hard drives. We all had at least a 500 GB hard drive, but it was common to have two or more disks so that we did not lose files when the read head scratched the disk (Figure 6.1). But today, the situation on modern computers has been reversed!

Most of the population owns computers with more processing power than necessary (i3, i5, or i7) but with hard drives with little space – it is more difficult...