Microsoft Office 365 End User

Explore what Office 365 is, its licensing, and how to access and log in to the site. Gain a full overview of the end user experience and core features.

Office 365 blends email hosting, Office apps, and online cloud services such as OneDrive and SharePoint. Licenses vary from four to thirty-five dollars per user per month to meet needs.

Explore the most common Office 365 applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, that users rely on daily.

Navigate complex licensing for small business, enterprise, and government plans, including email and office-only options; government data stays in the United States, licenses have been renamed, and consult an advisor.

Explore Office 365 add-on subscriptions like Project, Power BI, Access PC only, Planner, Visio, Yammer, and Publisher, and compare cloud versus local install options and web-based portals.

Explore a world of thousands of apps that integrate with Office 365, from personalized email templates to overlay tools. See how Salesforce tracks emails and extends Office 365.

Learn how to log on to Microsoft Office on a local PC by connecting your account to an email address, which serves as your login, authentication, and password.

Learn to log on to Office 365 web access through portal.office.com and related redirects. Understand the work or school account versus personal Microsoft account, and enable two-factor authentication for security.

Log in to portal.office.com for the first time, choose language, time zone, and a theme, see your email address, then click to get started across four quick screens.

Learn how to sign in for the first time to Office 365, navigate the portal, manage licenses and installations across devices, customize settings, and secure your account with two-factor authentication.

Learn how to access Office 365 settings to configure your environment, including themes, language, time zones, date and time formats, and notification customization, using the gear icon and one-click options.

Install Microsoft Office via portal.office.com, sign in to connect your Office 365 account, and save documents to OneDrive while using Word and the Office app.

Explore Microsoft Office 365 online apps and their web page versions; learn how to open, name, save, and manage files in real time across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, and more.

Explore how Office 365 settings personalize your experience with themes, language and time zones, dark mode, and notification options, and learn how to change your password.

Access the Office 365 help system by clicking the question mark to open a menu where you can search help for how to collaborate, app launcher, and IT support details.

Explore the office account profile to view your personal information, recent documents, and email attachments, and to see colleagues, projects, skills and expertise, and schools and education for collaboration.

Access your Office 365 profile via Delve or My Office Profile, upload a picture, view OneDrive documents and attachments, and explore colleagues and updated projects.

Explore how OneDrive in Office 365 syncs documents across home, office, and mobile devices, with cloud and local access, green checkmarks, and shared folders in Windows Explorer and the portal.

Explore teams as a core tool for internal communications in Office 365, enabling chats, one-to-one messages, file sharing, video conferencing, and collaborative workspaces.

SharePoint provides an internal web site for company-wide access to calendars, documents, and employee resources. Create department or company-wide sites, insert apps, and design pages to share information.

Explore OneDrive basics, including your files, recent activity, shared access, and the recycle bin, then create folders, upload documents, and use context-sensitive tools to share, rename, move, or delete items.

Explore a basic overview of Microsoft Teams, including chat conversations, presence indicators, formatting with gifs and emojis, calendars, and video and audio calls accessible on the office web page.

Gain a clear overview of Office 365 for end users, including apps, licensing, subscriptions, settings, and personalization, plus a tour of Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint.

Master email basics, sending and receiving contacts, and building and using your contact list. Learn to create contacts and manage your calendar in Office 365.

Access Outlook web apps via portal.office.com to sign in with your email and password, enable two-factor authentication with Microsoft authenticator or SMS, then open Outlook from tiles to check email.

Explore the diverse options in Outlook web apps, from sending and receiving mail to organizing with folders and favorites, recovering deleted items, and managing junk mail controls and tagging.

Explore how to send and receive mail in Outlook Web Apps, create folders, move messages, format emails, save drafts, attach files, and manage junk and deleted items.

Open a new message and adjust cc, bcc, and sensitivity options to tailor emails. Use the built-in formatting tools to craft the body with fonts, colors, alignment, and other styling.

Explore composing a message in Outlook, including address selection via search directory, cc and bcc, subject and formatting, sending, and interpreting delivery errors in sent items.

Explore special email options in Office 365, including blind copy, signatures, read receipts, message importance, attachments, and encryption, with guidance on licensing and encryption setups.

Create and customize an Outlook signature from settings, including images and hyperlinks, with automatic insertion for new messages, forwards, and replies; explore read and delivery receipts and encryption.

Right-click a message to create a rule in Outlook; define a condition, an action, and exceptions using subject, from, and to, for automated incoming emails.

Open the gear menu in portal.office.com to view outlook settings and customize themes, dark mode, focused inbox, notifications, display density, and reading pane. Use the help search for more options.

Explore Outlook options from themes and dark mode to focused inbox, conversation view, and mail settings, including attachments, cloud storage integrations, rules, forwarding, translations, retention policies, and general display preferences.

Explore how Outlook handles contacts and calendars, create new contact lists like distribution lists, and form groups to email multiple people with a single action.

Create and manage a contact list of email addresses separate from saved contacts, forming a distribution group for quick emailing, illustrated by the golf buddies example in Outlook.

Create a new contact group to email a team, so everyone receives a copy of the message, and explore how groups relate to Microsoft Teams.

Create and configure a new group in the Outlook web app, choosing privacy, inviting members, and sharing conversations, events, emails, and files within a collaborative workspace.

Explore calendar features in Outlook: switch between month, week, work week, or day views, share and print calendars, and overlay multiple calendars for projects or family activities.

Learn to create calendar appointments in Office 365 by adding title, date and time, location with map, reminders, attendees, descriptions, attachments, and status options.

Create meetings with others by inviting coworkers, setting a date and time, and using calendar availability to confirm everyone is free, even for lunch.

Create a standard calendar entry by adding an event, entering a title, selecting date and time, choosing a location or room, setting a 15-minute reminder, and saving to view availability.

Invite others to a meeting, set title, date, and time, and check attendees' availability automatically; choose a room or location with maps integration, and send the invite.

Explore chat in Outlook web access, where conversations occur in Teams, enabling instant messaging, drag-and-drop file transfer, and web-based video meetings for daily staff meetings.

Demonstrates opening chat from the Outlook web app to Teams, creating new chats with the plus sign, and sending real-time messages in a single interface.

Familiarize yourself with email, contacts, and calendar in the Outlook Web App, and learn to compose messages, set signatures and rules, and schedule meetings with Teams integration and calendar organization.

Explore teams and one drive for collaboration, chat, file sharing, and scheduling meetings; learn to find, retrieve, and share documents from anywhere with cloud syncing.

Explore Teams as the evolution of Skype, from chat to instant messaging and calls, with file transfer, hyperlinks, pictures, a team calendar, and screen sharing.

Start a one-to-one chat in Teams by selecting new chat, typing a colleague’s name, and sending your message; search the directory as you type, with web or desktop app options.

Learn how to open and use Microsoft Teams across desktop, mobile, and web, navigate chats, calendar, files, and apps, and enable desktop notifications.

Start a new chat in Teams by clicking the chat button, entering a name, and sending the first message. Explore formatting, attachments, emojis, and delivery options in the chat window.

Type a name to find contacts and message any organization member. Favorite frequent contacts to keep them ready for quick conversations.

Search and start chats by typing names to locate contacts, view history, and manage conversations with favorites, hide, mute, or do not disturb, and notify when available.

Learn how to mention people and manage multiple contacts in a chat, create a staff chat, and use the @ symbol to trigger notifications for group conversations.

Explore presence information that updates with calendar changes to show availability, busy status, or do not disturb, and learn to set a status message and customize your environment.

Explore chat window options, including sending pictures, rich formatting like a word processor, and hyperlink sharing; drag and drop documents to upload and access all attachments in Teams.

Explore chat window formatting in Microsoft Teams: attach pictures via upload or drag-and-drop, insert hyperlinks with thumbnails, apply basic formatting like font color, and access recent shared files.

Learn to search chat history in Teams with text search. Search results appear in the navigation bar and highlight items in Office 365 chats.

Learn to use OneDrive in Office 365 as the cloud repository for all documents, and synchronize cloud and local copies so you can continue across devices.

Discover how OneDrive uses SharePoint technology in Office 365 to provide a personal, synchronized 'my documents' folder accessible offline via the portal, with a green checkmark indicating synchronization.

Save documents to OneDrive from Windows Explorer, viewing folders like any other save location, including the shared Human Resources SJP folder with confidential HR records.

Create a file in OneDrive by clicking new and choosing a folder or document, then work in the web Word with auto-saving or open in the desktop app for tools.

Learn to create and save files in OneDrive, select the right folder, and use PowerPoint templates to quickly add slides.

Open files from OneDrive in the web view or the desktop PowerPoint and Word apps, sign in, edit slides and documents, and resume work across web and desktop.

Learn how to share documents in OneDrive, set the default sharing option, and choose between specific people, anyone with the link, or people in your organization.

Share documents in OneDrive by selecting a folder or file, choosing specific people with edit access, and sending links via Outlook or Teams while noting default sharing permissions.

Use Windows Explorer to share OneDrive documents by right-clicking any folder and selecting sharing, using the blue cloud icon for the same options as the web.

Move documents in OneDrive and use the right-click or ellipsis menu to share, copy links, manage access, download, delete, rename, and automate folder actions.

Create folders in OneDrive and organize your files. Move and copy documents to a destination using context-sensitive menus in the web interface, and delete unwanted copies.

Leverage teams and one drive for real-time communication, file sharing, and scheduling meetings to collaborate across locations. Access documents from anywhere with internet to work seamlessly with anyone.

Explore Microsoft Office 365 for first-time end users, from login and licenses to core apps like Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, enabling collaboration from anywhere.