Microsoft 365 Productivity Apps Explained in an hour

In this course you will discover the ecosystem of applications tailored to enhance and streamline your professional activities. The basic tools like Word, Excel and PowerPoint provides help with the tasks related to letter writing, calculations, and presentations respectively, but with the extended tools which we have covered in this course help you further extend your speed and quality of your work.

Microsoft have divided their productivity suite into various categories like:

• For scheduling there are two tools, Bookings and Calendar both have their own utility i.e., Calendar to manage your days, weeks and more whereas Bookings is to provide a gateway to external people to book time in your calendar.

• In content creation a sizable portion is video content for that Microsoft have provided two impressive tools Stream where you can record and manage videos, and Clipchamp which is a perfect tool for editing the videos.

• Though people use Excel or even a paper backed notebook to keep the content organized, Microsoft OneNote is an excellent tool to organize your information.

• Sway is a tool which you can use for creating interactive presentations.

• For managing tasks, you can use To Do.

• Projects are a big part of any organization. Planner helps you organize your small to medium level projects.

• For organization communication SharePoint is a seasoned tool with Microsoft recently Microsoft added Engage a social media like tool to their toolbox.

• Microsoft Teams is a great tool for real-time communication, and it has the capability to run the entire office from within; you can use Whiteboard for brainstorming ideas and co-authoring things.

• For creating diagrams, you can use Visio whether it is an Org Chart or Process Flowchart or even Infographic you can use this tool; Visio tells these items as drawings.

• Finally, two great tools in Microsoft Power Platform; Power Apps to create apps with low or no-code and Power Automate to automate tasks effortlessly.

This course will provide you with an understanding of each of these tools and it will allow the learner to explore more of the options which they think are valuable for them and their organization.