2018-10-13

Microsoft Office365

So lets start with the basics on Office 365, your place to create, communicate, collaborate, and get work done. This book really tackles the basics to help you understand Office 365:

Essential Office 365 Second Edition: The Illustrated Guide to using Microsoft Office (Computer Essentials)

With comprehensive instruction for many commonly used Office Applications, this step-by-step guide offers specifics in choosing, setting up, and effectively utilizing the versions of today’s software that will best help you meet your goals. In addition, many illustrations and screenshots are included, allowing readers to quickly and easily digest information without feeling confused, wasting time, and getting discouraged. In this book, we’ll take a look at…

  • Downloading and Installing Office 2016
  • Getting started with Office Online using Sway, Docs, OneDrive, Mail & Calendar
  • Constructing professional looking documents with Word 2016
  • Adding and using graphics, photographs and clipart
  • Changing fonts, creating tables, graphs and formatting text
  • Creating presentations for your lessons, lectures, speeches or business presentations using PowerPoint 2016
  • Adding animations and effects to PowerPoint slides
  • Basics of Office Mix for PowerPoint
  • Using Excel 2016 to create spreadsheets that analyse, present and manipulate data
  • Creating Excel charts, graphs, functions and formulas
  • The basics of Microsoft Access databases
  • Keeping in touch with friends, family and colleagues using Microsoft Outlook 2016
  • Maintaining calendars and keeping appointments with Outlook
  • Taking notes with OneNote and more…

Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners,ย Essential Office 365: Second Editionย tackles the basics of Office 365 so that everyone from students to senior citizens to home users pressed for time can take advantage of the digital revolution.

So if you’re looking for a Office manual, a visual book, simplified tutorial, dummies guide, or reference,ย Essential Office 365: Second Editionย will help you maximize the potential of Microsoft Office to increase your productivity and enhance your digital life.

byย Kevin Wilsonย ย (Author)

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Microsoft PowerApps

PowerApps allows you to easily build business apps to extend and customize the apps you already use to better meet you business needs. Best of all with templates to help and without any need for coding. Here is a great book to get you started:

Beginning PowerApps: The Non-Developers Guide to Building Business Mobile Applications

Build mobile apps that specifically target your companyโ€™s unique business needs, with the same ease of writing a simple spreadsheet! With this book, you will build business apps designed to work with your company’s systems and databases, without having to enlist the expertise of costly, professionally trained software developers.

Inย Beginning PowerApps,ย author and business applications expert Tim Leung guides you step-by-step through the process of building your own mobile app. He assumes no technical background, although if you have worked with Excel, you are one step closer. He guides you through scenarios, such as what to do if you have existing databases with complex data structures and how to write screens that can connect to those data. You will come away with an understanding of how to set up screen navigation, manipulate data from within apps, and write solutions to perform specific tasks.

What You’ll Learnย 

  • Connect with data
  • Write formulas
  • Visualize your data through charts
  • Work with global positioning systems (GPS)
  • Build flows
  • Import and export data
  • Manage offline scenarios
  • Develop custom application programming interfaces (API)

Who This Book Is For

Beginners and non-developers, and assumes no prior knowledge of PowerApps

byย Tim Leungย (Author)

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a real game changer, it is the hub or workplace for collaboration, communication, and managing day to day tasks, all whilst using all the other great Microsoft Products you use every day. Take a look at these two books to help you get started and then get the most out of it:

Introducing Microsoft Teams: Understanding the New Chat-Based Workspace in Office 365

Gain industry best practices from planning to implementing Microsoft Teams and learn how to enable, configure, and integrate user provisioning, management, and monitoring. This book also covers troubleshooting Teams with step-by-step instructions and examples.ย Introducing Microsoft Teamsย gives you the comprehensive coverage you need to creatively utilize Microsoft Teams services.

The author starts by giving an introduction to Microsoft Teams and its architecture followed by optimizing the Teams experience where he describes how organizations can prepare for Teams and enhance existing services. He further shows you how to manage and control the Microsoft Teams experience along with its capabilities and enhancements. Youโ€™ll learn how to migrate from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams with a step-by-step tutorial. Finally, youโ€™ll get to grips with Teams troubleshooting and best practices.

This book has detailed coverage that helps you exploit every capability Microsoft Teams has to offer. It provides the answers you need and the insight that will make your journey from Skype for Business to Teams easier.ย 

What You Will Learnย 

  • Enable guest access in Teamsย 
  • Provision and manage users in Teamsย 
  • Administrate Teams and channels
  • Optimize the Teams experience
  • Enable and configure Microsoft Teams
  • Prepare your network for Microsoft Teams and Office 365 servicesย 
  • Migrate from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams

Who This Book Is For

Unified communication administrators and IT support engineers who are currently supporting an existing unified communication platform such as Skype for Business (Lync). It would also help support engineers, new administrators, and consultant to start their journey with Teams.ย 

byย Balu N Ilagย (Author)

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Mastering Microsoft Teams: End User Guide to Practical Usage, Collaboration, and Governance

Do you need to learn how to use Microsoft Teams? Are you questioning how to drive user adoption, govern content, and manage access for your Teams deployment? Either way,ย Mastering Microsoft Teamsis your one-stop-shop to learning everything you need to know to find success with Microsoft Teams.

Microsoftโ€™s new chat-based collaboration software has many rich features that enable teams to be more efficient, and save valuable time and resources. However, as with all software, there is a learning curve and pitfalls that should be avoided.

Begin by learning the core components and use cases for Teams. From there the authors guide you through ideas to create governance and adoption plans that make sense forย yourย organization or customer. Wrap up with an understanding of features and services in progress, and a road map to the future of the product.

What You’ll Learn

  • Implement, use, and manage Microsoft Teams
  • Understand how Teams drives productivity and engagement by combining the functionality of Microsoft Groups, SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, and other services in one location
  • Govern, explain, and use Teams in your organization
  • Know the pitfalls to avoid that may create challenges in your usage of Teams
  • Become familiar with the functionality and components of Teams via walkthroughs, including opportunities for automating business processes in Teamsย 

Who This Book Is For

Anyone who wants to learn Microsoft Teams. To get the most out of the book, a basic understanding of Office 365 and a subscription, including a Microsoft Teams license, is useful.

byย Melissa Hubbardย ย (Author),ย Matthew Baileyย (Author)

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Microsoft Flow

Microsoft Flow allows you to create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, sychronize files, collect data, and more. Here is our “top pick” book to get you starting with Microsoft Flow:

Introducing Microsoft Flow: Automating Workflows Between Apps and Services

Use Microsoft Flow in your business to improve productivity through automation with this step-by-step introductory text from a Microsoft Flow expert. Youโ€™ll see the prerequisites to get started with this cloud-based service, including how to create a flow and how to use different connectors.ย Introducing Microsoft Flowย takes you through connecting with SharePoint, creating approval flows, and using mobile apps. This vital information gives you a head-start when planning your Microsoft Flow implementation.

byย Vijai Anand Ramalingamย (Author)

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Microsoft Power BI

Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools to analyze data and share insights. Power BI dashboards provide a 360-degree view for business users with their most important metrics in one place, updated in real time, and available on all of their devices. With one click, users can explore the data behind their dashboard using intuitive tools that make finding answers easy. Creating a dashboard is simple, thanks to hundreds of connections to popular business applications, complete with prebuilt dashboards to help you get up and running quickly. And you can access your data and reports from anywhere with the Power BI Mobile apps, which update automatically with any changes to your data.” – source Microsoft.com

Beginning Power BI: A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics with Excel 2016 and Power BI Desktop

Analyze your companyโ€™s data quickly and easily using Microsoftโ€™s latest tools. You will learn to build scalable and robust data models to work from, clean and combine different data sources effectively, and create compelling visualizations and share them with your colleagues.

Authorย Dan Clarkย takes you through each topic using step-by-step activities and plenty of screen shots to help familiarize you with the tools. This second edition includes new material on advanced uses of Power Query, along with the latest user guidance on the evolving Power BI platform.ย Beginning Power BIย is your hands-on guide to quick, reliable, and valuable data insight.

What You’ll Learn

  • Simplify data discovery, association, and cleansing
  • Build solid analytical data models
  • Create robust interactive data presentations
  • Combine analytical and geographic data in map-based visualizations
  • Publish and share dashboards and reports

Who This Book Is For

Business analysts, database administrators, developers, and other professionals looking to better understand and communicate with data.

byย Dan Clarkย ย (Author)

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About the author 

Mark Jones

Collab365 Founder helping people learn Microsoft 365 via these:

๐Ÿ‘‰ Collab365 Summits - Massive virtual conferences for Microsoft products
๐Ÿ‘‰ Collab365 Today - Aggregation site for the best community blogs
๐Ÿ‘‰ Collab365 Community - Huge blog site including plenty of Microsoft content

I want to provide a friendly online community, where we can learn and grow together:

๐Ÿ‘‰ 365ers - coming very soon!