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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)

Sending emails directly to a channel

In our daily work, when it comes to teamwork and collaboration, we might find that receiving emails in our mailboxes and forwarding them to the rest of the team causes misunderstandings. Communication can then become less efficient since, to collaborate, the team needs to keep replying to all, and instead of looking like an interactive discussion, it looks like a long thread of disconnected information.

Microsoft Teams has a great way to solve this issue and make communication through emails better by enabling your team to have a centralized place where your emails are sent and the whole team can interact.

Every channel has a mailbox

When you create a team inside Microsoft Teams, you can add channels for this team, which are usually used to organize topics.

A great feature of Teams is that we can have a virtual mailbox for each channel inside a team and that when receiving an email in that mailbox, a post is automatically created within...