What is Office 365?
Office 365 refers to subscription plans that include access to Office applications plus other productivity services that are enabled over the Internet (cloud services). Office 365 includes plans for use at home and for business.
Many Office 365 plans also include the desktop version of the latest Office applications, which users can install across multiple computers and devices.
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Many Office 365 plans also include the desktop version of the latest Office applications, which users can install across multiple computers and devices.
- The fully installed applications include: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. (Publisher and Access are available on PC only.)
- And you can install them across multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, Android tablets, Android phones, iPad, and iPhone.
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Office 365 Suite Features
The features listed in this topic are a collection of web-based tools that help you collaborate and communicate securely across many devices and multiple Office 365 services. These features help make new connections within your organization by unifying digital content creation, storage, and management with social tools for discovering and sharing information between users.
Bookings - Microsoft Bookings is an online and mobile app for small businesses that provide services to customers on an appointment basis. Examples of such businesses include hair salons, dental offices, spas, law firms, financial services providers, consultants, and auto shops. Bookings gives you a fast, easy alternative to time-consuming, frustrating phone-scheduling. An easy-to-set-up, customizable webpage lets your customers find available times and book appointments 24/7. You get a private calendar for managing your schedule and automatic confirmations and reminders that save time.
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Delve - Office Delve is a new way to search for and discover content across Office 365 based on personalized insights. Delve is the first experience to be powered by Office Graph.
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Flow - Create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more.
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Forms - Microsoft Forms is a new part of Office 365 Education that allows teachers and students to quickly and easily create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations and more.
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OneDrive for Business - OneDrive for Business is a standalone product separate from Office 365 but is included with Office Online. It includes multifactor authentication, built-in compliance standards and auditing and reporting capabilities.
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OneNote - All your notes, on all your devices, all up to date. OneNote is a digital notebook for capturing, storing, and sharing all kinds of information.
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Planner - Microsoft Planner is a tool that gives users a visual way to organize teamwork. Teams can create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what they're working on, set due dates, and update status. Microsoft Planner also offers the ability to associate documents with specific tasks, edit them together, and have conversations around tasks.
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SharePoint - SharePoint is used by organizations to create websites. You can use SharePoint as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from almost any device. All you need is a web browser.
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Sway - Sway is a professional digital storytelling app for business that helps you and your colleagues express ideas using an interactive, web-based canvas. Sway’s built-in design engine helps you produce professional, visually-appealing reports, presentations, and more without the need for extensive formatting or additional training. You can also modify the results to get the unique look and feel you want. Sway makes your creation look great in any browser on any screen, and it can be shared with colleagues and customers by simply sending a link. Sway helps you find and pull together all sorts of content without leaving the app, so you can drag and drop your images, text, videos, and charts right on to your canvas.
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Teams - Microsoft Teams is a chat-centered workspace in Office 365 that helps teams achieve more together. Microsoft Teams serves as a hub for teamwork, providing teams instant access to chat conversations, content and tools from across Office 365 into a single workspace. SharePoint and OneNote are built in, and team members can work on Office documents right within the app. Aside from chats, Microsoft Teams also supports video calls and meetings to enable teams to meet live, whether on demand, or scheduled. Team members can easily collaborate with multiple teams and search across people, chats, and files anytime. Microsoft Teams works across Windows, Mac, Web, Android, and iOS platforms.
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Yammer - Yammer is a private social network that helps you get connected to the right people, share information across teams, and organize around projects. Only your coworkers can join, so your communications on Yammer are secure and visible only to people within your organization.
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