Microsoft 365 for dummies

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Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here Part 1 Keeping up with Microsoft 365 Chapter 1 What’s in It for You: Overview of Features Tasting the Flavors of Microsoft 365 Understanding the versions for home Exploring the options for the workplace Honing in on the Workplace Features Reining in the apps and services No, the robots have not taken over Connecting the dots to get work done Chapter 2 Work, Meet Life: The New World of Work Going Native, Digitally How to get your colleague’s attention Turn back the hands of time with version history Prioritizing Self-Care and Well-Being Viva la vida loca! Taming the “too-connected” beast Calling it a day with Virtual Commute Part 2 Reimagining Teamwork Chapter 3 Unlocking Digital Collaboration There’s a Purpose for That App Office 365 versus Microsoft 365: What’s the diff? Installing the Office 365 apps The right tools for the right purpose Connecting Experiences Across Apps The lowdown on connected experiences Look Ma, no hands! Using the Dictation feature Chapter 4 Zooming In on Teams Getting to Know Teams Touring the Teams interface Co-authoring documents in Teams Don’t get ghosted — use Read Receipts Reading instead of listening to voicemail Creating a Humanistic Workplace To hide or not to hide the kids (or pets) The many ways to see each other Eat chips without being annoying Chapter 5 Rocking Your Meeting Like a Boss The Things You Do Before Get meeting insights from Outlook Chat with attendees to prep Preload agenda and documents The Stuff You Do During Present like a pro with one monitor Reporting live from . . . your home office! Follow along with live captions or live transcriptions The Actions to Take After Play back the meeting Track action items Continue to engage via chat Chapter 6 Facilitating Meetings and Breakout Sessions The Basics of Teams Meetings Scheduling a meeting Calling for an impromptu meeting Joining a meeting Meeting within a Meeting with Breakout Rooms Creating Breakout rooms Starting the breakout session Rejoining the main session Chapter 7 All About Webinars and Live Events Calling the Shots with a Webinar Preparing for a webinar Creating the webinar event Delivering the webinar So, You Want to be a Producer Getting ready to produce a live event Scheduling a live event Producing the live event Part 3 Modernizing the Workplace with Office Apps Chapter 8 Getting the Most Out of Word It’s Alive! Your Document, That Is Jazz it up with pictures Your screen is paper, draw on it Immerse yourself in your reading Becoming a Better Writer Make your writing so much better Support your facts with Researcher That Time When Word Helped Your Career Sprucing up your resume Smashing the language barrier Chapter 9 Stepping up Your Excel Chops Excelling in Excel Everyday Excel tasks Get it all sorted out Talk to your team from your workbook Taking a Shortcut to Completing Tasks Get to know Office Scripts Stop the repetition; create a script Run and share your script So, You’re a Data Analyst Now? Around the world with data types Giving yourself permission to be curious You’ve got questions, Excel has answers Chapter 10 Wowing Your Audience with PowerPoint More than Just the Basics of PowerPoint Navigating the web and desktop apps Have an interesting topic? There’s’ a deck for that! The Art of Creating a Deck Be artsy (even when you’re not) with Designer Mastering the Slide Master Reuse, recycle decks with templates The Science of Presenting a Deck Practice with AI makes perfect Give a unique experience with Live Presentations Experiencing Live Presentations as an audience Chapter 11 Going Digital with OneNote Exploring Basic Functions Understanding the different versions Getting around the user interface Creating a new notebook Moving a notebook to a new location Stepping Up the Notetaking Game Tagging content for later use Viewing and restoring page versions Sharing your notebook Chapter 12 Staying Connected with Outlook The Not-Just-Basic of Outlook Just a few words will do My thoughts exactly: When AI reads minds Ask questions, naturally Schedule Management with the Calendar Click to meet from an email Color your world with categories Don’t get between your colleagues and their lunch Outlook Out of the Ball Park Sliding into a Teams chat from Outlook Notes and Sticky Notes integration Play my emails, please Part 4 Storing Your Data in the Cloud Chapter 13 Centralizing Data in SharePoint Getting to Know SharePoint Online No-code website in a flash? Yes you can! Who let the dogs in? Setting permissions The Wonders of Microsoft Lists Creating and editing a List A view for different points of view Never miss an update with alerts The Marvels of Document Libraries Contributing to a document library Help, I changed my mind! Versioning to the rescue Chapter 14 Goodbye Hard Drive, Hello OneDrive Storing and Syncing Files in OneDrive Ready, get set, sync! Using the sync app What’s in a name? Work or School versus Home What’s the diff? OneDrive versus SharePoint The Many Ways to Share Files May I have a quick link, please? Managing access before it gets out of hand Part 5 Giving Power to the People Like You and Me Chapter 15 Understanding the Power Platform What Is the Power Platform? Creating Workflows with Power Automate Getting to Know Power Apps Telling a Story with Data in Power BI Advanced Concepts Meet the AI Builder About the Microsoft Dataverse Chapter 16 Creating a Power-Automated Approval Process Gathering What You need Nailing the scenario Building the library Picking the template All Systems Go, Let’s Flow! Building the flow, making the connections Testing the workflow Checking for approvals in Teams Turning off the flow Chapter 17 Developing Your First App with Power Apps Before Building the App Creating the list to hold data Managing access to the list Fine-tuning the properties of the list Specifying the survey questions Building the App Designing the app Connecting the data source Building the Survey screen Adding buttons and labels to the form Building the Welcome screen Building the Thank You screen Finalizing the Survey screen Launching the App Saving and sharing the app Updating the app Reviewing the data Chapter 18 Dashboarding with Power BI Understanding Power BI Concepts What’s in it for you? How Power BI is licensed It’s the elements, dear Watson Exploring a Sample Data Set Navigating the Power BI Service Loading the dataset Interacting with the dashboard Part 6 Being Your Own IT Department Chapter 19 Getting Up Close and Personal Let’s Get Personal Paint a thousand words with your picture Spice things up with a custom cover photo Don’t be shy, toot your own horn IT Tasks You’re Empowered to Do Updating your security information Changing your password Self-service password reset Chapter 20 Reining in Your Devices Managing Your Devices Securing your devices Auditing and disabling devices Checking for impossible travel You Have Left the Building — Virtually Signing out from devices all at once Disconnecting a BYOD Part 7 The Part of Tens Chapter 21 Ten More Apps that Get the Work Done People MyAnalytics Kaizala Stream Whiteboard Lists Forms Yammer Sway Planner Chapter 22 Ten Ways to Rock Delve Know Thyself with MyAnalytics Delve Away, Your Docs Are Safe Delve Consumes OneDrive and SharePoint data The Search Is On for People and Docs Act On a Document Favorite Documents for Later Use Group Documents in a Board Documents-at-a-Glance with Cards Popularity Contest for Documents Get to Know Your Colleagues Chapter 23 Ten Microsoft 365 Remote Work Tips Set Lunch Hours and Enjoy Your Meal Chill and Decompress: Go Meditate Start Your Zero-Carbon Commute Keep Your Promises with Help from AI Work Late but Let Others Not Make Your Meeting Worth Their Time Wrap It Up in Five Minutes Say Thanks with Praise Your Status Is Not Complicated Give a Heads Up with Signatures Index EULA