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How To Use Office 365 To Improve User Experience


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Microsoft is making some great progress in the cloud collaboration space with their Office 365 product.  In this short video, and video transcript we show you how you can increase collaboration and access to your documents with the O365 suite of tools. 

Video Highlights
0:00:00.16   Review of  Part 1 Edge Browser
0:00:00.30   Review of Part 2 Chrome Browser and its features
0:00:00.40   Review of Part 3 Google Drive account for Google Apps
0:00:01.19   How to copy or move files and folders in Office 365
0:00:02.00   How Office 365 cloud collaboration is similar to using Microsoft office on PC
0:00:02.44   Working from the full version of Word then moving back to the cloud version and vice versa
0:00:03.24   Introduction to Part 5 which is Windows 10
Transcript: How To Use Office 365 To Improve User Experience
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Hi Mike Reading here from www.usingtechnologybetter.com. Welcome to Part 4 of a five part series where we’re just showing you some of our favorite tips and tricks that really help improve your user experience when you’re using web tools.
In Part 1 we had a look at the Edge browser and some great features that I’m truly excited about in terms of creating resources for students and interacting with our different apps and programs that we use in the classroom. We then had a look at our Chrome browser and some features that are built into Chrome that really improve the user experience and so I would encourage you to go and have a look at Part 1 and Part 2. In Part 3 we looked at our Google Drive account for Google apps for education or just Google apps if you’re in a business and how we can just better manage shared folders and I gave you some tips that are really going to stop you losing documents in your school, people deleting documents, moving documents and so on. I know this is creating a lot of hassles in businesses and schools all around the world but it can be solved reasonably easily. So make sure you go back and check out that session as well.
In this session I want to give you a couple of tips around Office 365 and Office is making some great progress in the cloud collaboration space and I want to just point those out to you.
The first thing that I wanted to show you was that in our Office 365 account we can have our files and our folders much like we can have inside Google Drive but the same problem occurs. If I choose a particular file in a shared folder you’ll see that there is the ability here to move this document but we don’t want to move it because it just creates those problems. Office 365 does have the option here to ‘copy to’, so in Lesson 3 we looked at how to use ‘Shift Z’ in Google. In Office 365 make sure you’re using the copy to and not the move to version and that just saves some of those hassles that you have in there.
One of the reasons I really like Office 365 is that...
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