Switching from Google to Microsoft: Workspace to Microsoft 365

What's inside

1. Level 1: Orientation: Scope, Independence and Who Runs the MoveFree
   Learners find out what the course covers, that it is independent of both Google and Microsoft, and how a personal or small-team move differs from a company tenant move run by IT.
2. Level 2: Inventory: What Moves, What Does Not, and HowFree
   Learners list their Google data by type and assign each item a route: Google Takeout export, a Microsoft import route, manual rebuild, or leave behind.
3. Level 3: Gmail Labels and Filters to Outlook Folders and Rules
   Learners map Gmail labels, filters, stars and archive habits to Outlook folders, categories, rules, flags and archive, using a mapping table that notes where the match breaks.
4. Level 4: Moving Mail and Contacts by Supported Routes
   Learners move or connect Gmail mail and export Google Contacts into Outlook using Microsoft's documented routes, then check the result.
5. Level 5: Google Calendar Habits to Outlook Calendar
   Learners export or subscribe to Google calendars in Outlook and remap scheduling habits such as appointment booking, working hours and shared calendars.
6. Level 6: My Drive and Shared Drives to OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint
   Learners decide where each kind of Google Drive content belongs: OneDrive for personal work, and Teams or SharePoint for shared team content.
7. Level 7: How Sharing Differs: Links, Permissions and Access
   Learners compare Google Drive sharing with OneDrive and SharePoint sharing links, permission levels and inheritance so that they share safely after the move.
8. Level 8: What Happens to Comments, Version History and Links
   Learners find out which file metadata survives conversion and moving, and plan for the comments, version history and links that do not.
9. Level 9: Google Docs to Word
   Learners remap Docs habits such as suggesting mode, comments, outline, smart chips and add-ons to Word features, with notes where formatting or features break.
10. Level 10: Sheets to Excel: Functions and Features That Differ
    Learners map Sheets formulas and features to Excel and rebuild those with no direct match, including QUERY and IMPORTRANGE.
11. Level 11: Google Slides to PowerPoint
    Learners convert Slides decks to PowerPoint and remap themes, master layouts, speaker notes, embedded media and presenting habits.
12. Level 12: Meet and Chat to Microsoft Teams
    Learners remap Google Meet calls and Google Chat spaces and direct messages to Teams meetings, chats, teams and channels.
13. Level 13: Tasks and Keep to Microsoft To Do and OneNote
    Learners move task lists and notes from Google Tasks and Keep to Microsoft To Do and OneNote and remap capture and reminder habits.
14. Level 14: Forms and Sites to Their Microsoft Counterparts
    Learners rebuild Google Forms in Microsoft Forms and Google Sites in SharePoint, and plan what to do with existing responses and published URLs.
15. Level 15: Apps Script to Office Scripts or Power Automate; Gemini to Copilot
    Learners choose a Microsoft route for each Apps Script automation and remap their Gemini prompting habits to Copilot, checking licensing and limits on current pages.
16. Level 16: Co-editing with Colleagues Still on Google
    Learners set up working practices for sharing and co-editing across both suites without losing comments, formatting or one agreed source of truth.
17. Level 17: First-Week Plan and Day-30 Check
    Learners turn the course mappings into a dated first-week action plan and a day-30 review checklist.
18. Level 18: Final Challenge: Move a Small Project Across Exam
    Learners use the whole course to move a small multi-app project from Google to Microsoft 365 and write what they would keep, change and check.

Access

The first 2 levels are free with a free account. Every level, the podcast edition and the AI tutor come with All Access at £4.99/month or any Creator plan — see pricing.

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