Tired of staring at a blank page or struggling with repetitive tasks within Microsoft 365? Introducing Microsoft Copilot, your AI assistant designed to revolutionize the way you work. Copilot is more than just a spell checker; it's a powerful tool that understands your context, anticipates your needs, and empowers you to achieve more in less time. Unleash Your Productivity Potential: Effortless Content Creation: Overcome writer's block, generate compelling copy, and ensure consistent style with Copilot's intelligent suggestions. Coding Like a Pro: Write cleaner, more efficient code with Copilot's assistance in completing lines, functions, or even entire code blocks based on your specific language and context. Automate Repetitive Tasks: Free yourself from tedious, repetitive tasks within Excel, PowerPoint, and other applications by leveraging Copilot's automation capabilities. Enhanced Communication and Collaboration: Streamline communication workflows, generate meeting summaries, and draft impactful emails with Copilot's support. Beyond the Basics: Copilot goes beyond simple suggestions, offering advanced functionalities like: Natural Language Processing: Interact with Copilot using natural language prompts, allowing you to describe your desired outcome and have Copilot translate it into concrete actions. Custom Workflows and Automations: Build personalized workflows and automations tailored to your specific needs, further optimizing your efficiency within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. AI-powered Research and Insights: Extract valuable insights from data, identify trends, and generate reports with Copilot's assistance, leading to data-driven decision-making. Join the Future of Work: Microsoft Copilot is not just a productivity tool; it represents a glimpse into the future of work. As AI continues to evolve, Copilot will become an even more powerful assistant, augmenting human capabilities and enabling us to achieve remarkable results across various industries and professions. Embrace the possibilities. Unlock your potential. Start your journey with Microsoft Copilot today.

(A new edition with enhanced coverage is now available) A complete guide on Teams filled with real-world scenarios and best practices to increase productivity and engagement Key Features Interactive approach to learn the key concepts of Teams and its implementation in modern workplace Discover tips and techniques for extending Teams to meet your business requirements Integrate Teams with various Microsoft services such as PowerShell, SharePoint, PowerApps, and Power Automate Book DescriptionMicrosoft Teams is a platform for unified communication in modern workplaces. It not only enables effective communication, but also helps you manage your resources through its integration with various Microsoft Office 365 services. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the platform, getting you up to speed in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to use Teams in the best possible way. Starting with the basic concepts that will help you collaborate on Teams, this book takes you through expert techniques for creating and managing teams. A dedicated section also features industry practices to help enhance collaboration in modern workplaces. In later chapters, you’ll explore Microsoft services such as SharePoint, PowerApps, Power Automate, and learn how they interact with Microsoft Teams. You’ll also get to grips with dealing with permissions and security issues in managing private and public teams and channels. Along the way, you’ll discover practical scenarios that will help you improve the collaboration in your organization and increase productivity by using Teams features. By the end of this book, you’ll have hands-on experience of using Microsoft Teams, along with the skills you need to improve the way people collaborate in your organization.What you will learn Create teams, channels, and tabs in Microsoft Teams Explore the Teams architecture and various Office 365 components included in Teams Perform scheduling, and managing meetings and live events in Teams Configure and manage apps in Teams Design automated scripts for managing a Teams environment using PowerShell Build your own Microsoft Teams app without writing code Who this book is for This Microsoft Teams book is for power users and business professionals looking to use Teams for improving collaboration in an enterprise environment. The book will also be useful for Office 365 administrators interested in implementing Microsoft Teams effectively by learning about and exploring expert tips and best practices to ensure good governance.

This timely book helps educators unleash the interactive potential of PowerPoint to build their own multimedia material that perfectly matches the needs of their students. While PowerPoint affords powerful capabilities for creating dynamic classroom lessons and enriching curriculum, few educators understand how to take advantage of these built-in features. The second edition of this practical guide helps educators produce creative multimedia material for their students, regardless of their level of programming proficiency. Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive, Second Edition discusses the educational benefits of multimedia instruction and provides a review of intermediate PowerPoint skills. Author David Marcovitz explains the concept of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripting and provides progressively advanced skills and practice examples. While other books that describe VBA are written in a highly technical manner, this book is geared toward educators with little or no programming background and includes tips for modifying the practice examples for their own interactive multimedia projects.

With over 100 practical recipes that offer extensive coverage of Microsoft Office 365, learn how to enhance collaboration, implement robotic process automation, and develop business intelligence for your organization Key Features Gain a complete overview of popular Office 365 services using practical recipes and expert insights Collaborate with your team effectively using SharePoint Online and MS Teams Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format Book Description Microsoft Office 365 provides tools for managing organizational tasks like content management, communication, report creation, and business automation processes. With this book, you'll get to grips with popular apps from Microsoft, enabling workspace collaboration and productivity using Microsoft SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. In addition to guiding you through the implementation of Microsoft 365 apps, this practical guide helps you to learn from a Microsoft consultant's extensive experience of working with the Microsoft business suite. This cookbook covers recipes for implementing SharePoint Online for various content management tasks. You'll learn how to create sites for your organization and enhance collaboration across the business and then see how you can boost productivity with apps such as Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Planner, Delve, and M365 Groups. You'll find out how to use the Power Platform to make the most of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Finally, the book focuses on the SharePoint framework, which helps you to build custom Teams and SharePoint solutions. By the end of the book, you will be ready to use Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online to enhance business productivity using a broad set of tools. What you will learn Get to grips with a wide range of apps and cloud services in Microsoft 365 Discover how to use SharePoint Online to create and manage content Store and share documents using SharePoint Online Improve your search experience with Microsoft Search Leverage the Power Platform to build business solutions with Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents Enhance native capabilities in SharePoint and Teams using the SPFx framework Use Microsoft Teams to collaborate with colleagues or external users Who this book is for This book is for business professionals, IT administrators, enterprise developers and architects, and anyone who wants to get to grips with using MS 365 for the effective implementation of Microsoft apps. Prior experience with Office 365 and SharePoint will assist with understanding the recipes effortlessly, but is not required.

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Introducing Microsoft Power BI enables you to evaluate when and how to use Power BI. Get inspired to improve business processes in your company by leveraging the available analytical and collaborative features of this environment. Be sure to watch for the publication of Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo's upcoming retail book, Analyzing Data with Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel (ISBN 9781509302765). Go to the book's page at the Microsoft Press Store here for more details:http://aka.ms/analyzingdata/details. Learn more about Power BI at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/.

An accessible guide for beginner-to-intermediate programmers to the concepts, real-world applications, and latest features of C# 13 and .NET 9, with hands-on exercises using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Key Features Explore the newest additions to C# 13, the .NET 9 class libraries, and Entity Framework Core 9 Build professional websites and services with ASP.NET Core 9 and Blazor Enhance your skills with step-by-step code examples and best practices tips Book Description This Packt bestseller continues to be the definitive guide to modern cross-platform development. The 9th edition of C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals has been updated to cover the latest features and improvements in .NET 9 and C# 13. You'll start by mastering object-oriented programming, learning how to write, test, and debug functions, and implementing interfaces. You'll then dive into .NET APIs for data management, filesystem operations, and serialization. This latest edition integrates .NET 9 enhancements into its examples: faster exceptions and new LINQ methods. New ASP.NET Core 9 features include optimized static assets, built-in OpenAPI document generation, and the HybridCache. Practical examples, such as building websites and services with ASP.NET Core, have been refreshed to utilize the latest .NET 9 features. The book also introduces Blazor, with its new unified hosting model for unparalleled code reusability. With these updates, you'll learn how to build robust applications and services efficiently and effectively. By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge and confidence to create professional and high-performance web applications using the latest technologies in C# 13 and .NET 9. What you will learn Discover the new features of .NET 9, including more flexible params and new LINQ like CountBy and Index Leverage the new ASP.NET Core 9 features for optimized static assets, OpenAPI document generation, and HybridCache Utilize the native AOT publish capability for faster startup and reduced memory footprint Build rich web user interface experiences using Blazor in ASP.NET Core 9 Integrate and update databases in your applications using Entity Framework Core 9 models Query and manipulate data using LINQ Build powerful services using Minimal APIs Who this book is for This book is aimed at beginner to intermediate-level C# and .NET developers. While prior exposure to C# or .NET is not a prerequisite, a general understanding of programming concepts will be beneficial. If you want to learn more technologies for building modern .NET projects like gRPC, SignalR, and .NET MAUI, read Mark's Apps and Services with .NET 8 book next; and if you aim to become a professional .NET developer quickly or mainly work on team projects, read his other book, Tools and Skills for .NET 8.

Using Artificial Intelligence Absolute Beginner’s Guide Who knew how simple AI could be? Using Artificial Intelligence Absolute Beginner’s Guide will have you getting the most of popular AI tools in no time! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll find inside: Learn how AI can make everyday life easier. Get tips for using AI to write, gather information, get advice, and more. Discover how to use AI to generate images that are realistic and fantastical! Examine the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence. Find step-by-step instructions for today’s most popular AI tools, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, and Midjourney. Find out how to tell when something is AI generated so you don’t get fooled by deepfakes. Artificial intelligence can be fun and productive if you know which tools to use and when. Using Artificial Intelligence Absolute Beginner’s Guide tells you all about today’s major AI tools and shows how to get the best results from them. You’ll learn to use AI for turning your ideas into art, writing a great email, sharpening your resume, and even sparking conversation. Instantly research everything from planning a trip to making your next big purchase. It’s all a matter of picking the right AI tool and constructing the right prompt. You’ll also learn to protect yourself from the risks of AI and distinguish AI fakes from the real thing. Everything you need to know is here in this book!