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Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365

By : Dr. Nitin Paranjape
Book Image

Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365

By: Dr. Nitin Paranjape

Overview of this book

Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365 covers the entire range of over 25 desktop and mobile applications on the Microsoft 365 platform. This book will provide simple, immediately usable, and authoritative guidance to help you save at least 20 minutes every day, advance in your career, and achieve business growth. You'll start by covering components and tasks such as creating and storing files and then move on to data management and data analysis. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn how to manage, monitor, and execute your tasks efficiently, focusing on creating a master task list, linking notes to meetings, and more. The book also guides you through handling projects involving many people and external contractors/agencies; you'll explore effective email communication, meeting management, and open collaboration across the organization. You'll also learn how to automate different repetitive tasks quickly and easily, even if you’re not a programmer, transforming the way you import, clean, and analyze data. By the end of this Microsoft 365 book, you'll have gained the skills you need to improve efficiency with the help of expert tips and techniques for using M365 apps.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Efficient Content Creation
7
Section 2: Efficient Collaboration
10
Section 3: Integration

Chapter 2: Components of Work

This book is for everyone who uses Office. There is so much variety in what we do – different subject areas, industries, roles, and levels of experience. So how can one book cover all these variations?

The answer is simple. Your work consists of two types: structured and unstructured. The structured part of your work requires knowledge of your subject and industry and the unstructured part of your work is common across the board. We can divide unstructured work into universal activities and needs such as creating files, storing data, teamwork, execution of tasks, and data analysis.

Microsoft built solutions (apps) for these needs and packaged them together into Microsoft 365. Here is a map of the needs and solutions.

Figure 2.1 – Apps in Microsoft 365 – which tool app to use and when

We will cover the key features of each app in this book. You need not be an expert in these features, but you need to...