These Microsoft 365 apps are highly integrated, meaning users can easily switch between them, collaborate, and manage projects more effectively. For beginners, the suite offers intuitive tools that are adaptable for both personal and professional tasks.

Microsoft 365 Apps is a suite of cloud-based tools designed to enhance productivity, collaboration, and efficiency. Here’s a beginner’s guide to its core apps:

1. Microsoft Word

• A word processing tool for creating, editing, and sharing documents. It’s ideal for everything from simple notes to complex reports. Collaborative editing lets multiple users work on the same document simultaneously.

2. Microsoft Excel

• A spreadsheet tool used for data analysis, calculations, and visualizations. Excel is valuable for creating budgets, tracking projects, and analyzing data with charts, graphs, and advanced formulas.

3. Microsoft PowerPoint

• A presentation tool for creating slideshows, pitches, and reports. PowerPoint offers templates, design tools, and animation features, making it easy to build professional, engaging presentations.

4. Microsoft Outlook

• An email and calendar app that helps manage communication and scheduling. With features like Focused Inbox, reminders, and shared calendars, Outlook is essential for efficient email management and staying on top of tasks.

5. Microsoft Teams

• A collaboration platform with chat, video calls, and file sharing. Teams integrates with other Microsoft 365 apps, making it a hub for remote work, meetings, and team collaboration.

6. OneDrive

• A cloud storage service for storing, syncing, and sharing files securely. OneDrive integrates seamlessly with all Microsoft 365 apps, allowing users to access files from any device and share them with others.

7. SharePoint

• A platform for document management and team collaboration. SharePoint allows teams to create shared sites where they can store, organize, and manage files, helping to keep projects centralized.

8. Microsoft OneNote

• A digital notebook for capturing ideas, meeting notes, and to-do lists. With features for organizing, tagging, and searching notes, OneNote is ideal for keeping track of information.

9. Microsoft Planner

Planner gives your team a simple way to:

• Make new plans
• Organize and assign tasks
• Share files
• Chat about what you’re working on
• Receive updates on progress
• A task management tool that helps organize and track tasks within projects. Teams can create boards, set deadlines, and assign responsibilities, making Planner great for visualizing project workflows.

10. Microsoft Power Automate

• A tool for automating repetitive tasks across apps and services. It enables users to create workflows, such as automatically saving email attachments or notifying a team of project updates.

11. Microsoft Power BI

• A business analytics tool for creating data visualizations and reports. Power BI helps users make data-driven decisions by connecting to multiple data sources and creating interactive dashboards.

12. Power Apps

• Using Power Apps, you can create apps in a matter of hours as opposed to months. The apps are also meticulously linked to the information you require. They're also easy to utilize. They have logic expressions that are similar to Excel and employ a point-and-click method when creating apps. Additionally, the apps are compatible with iOS, Android, and the web. You have the option to start from scratch or use their pre-made templates.

13. Flow

Using Flow, you may establish automatic processes between the services and apps you use most frequently. Workflows can be configured to collect data, sync files, receive notifications, and do a lot of other things.

14. Stream

Stream transforms video sharing into a potent component of your business. You may easily make or find videos with it, and then distribute them safely and easily around your company. Employees may easily connect and cooperate with the videos because to its numerous interactive elements.

15. Microsoft Whiteboard

Using Microsoft Whiteboard, your team can brainstorm on a whiteboard even if everyone is spread out across the globe and thousands of kilometers apart. It is a digital whiteboard canvas that is freeform and has a pen, touch, and keyboard interface. You can have an effective whiteboarding session on an endless canvas from any location and on any device.