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Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide Over 100 tips and tricks to help you get up and running with M365 quickly

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070195
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mario Trentim Mario Trentim
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Gustavo Moraes Gustavo Moraes
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Licensing Microsoft 365 2. Chapter 2: Organizing and Finding Information with Microsoft Delve FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Workplace and Personal Productivity with Microsoft MyAnalytics 4. Chapter 4: Staying on Top of Emails and Calendars with Microsoft Outlook 5. Chapter 5: Taking and Sharing Notes with Microsoft OneNote 6. Chapter 6: Working from Anywhere with Microsoft OneDrive 7. Chapter 7: Collaboration and Ideation with Microsoft Whiteboard 8. Chapter 8: Microsoft SharePoint Online (SPO) 9. Chapter 9: Working Together with Microsoft Teams 10. Chapter 10: Managing Projects and Tasks with Microsoft Planner and To-Do 11. Chapter 11: Doing More with Microsoft Power Automate 12. Chapter 12: Power Apps 13. Chapter 13: Getting Information with Microsoft Forms 14. Chapter 14: Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI 15. Chapter 15: QuickStart Excel, Word, and PowerPoint 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Using actions to organize your flows

The organization of your flows may never be definitive and sufficient, especially because in most cases, our flows are growing and doing more and more things for us. This is the essence of automation, and the motto of Power Automate is "Take care of what's important. Automate the rest".

So, organizing will always be necessary. In the next few paragraphs, we will see various tools that we can use in our organization. Let's get started:

  • Action name

In our examples, we saw that the names were all with the name of the action that comes by default, such as "Compose." If we keep the original name, we will not be able to understand the action's purpose or importance.

Inside Power Automate, we can give our actions any name without disturbing or hindering the flow. We must give short names to our actions that make sense, for example, Store item ID and Convert Item price to USD.

  • Action comments...
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