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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

Effective emails using Outlook

Here is the good news – what you just learned with Word will work with Outlook too. This is because Outlook uses Word as the email editor. In this section, we are going to focus only on effective email management. We will learn about time and task management in Chapter 6, Time and Task Management.

Using color

Using color makes your emails stand out. The usage should be subtle and professional. Do not add too many colors and font sizes. Outlook will then mark the email as spam.

If you have selected or created an Office theme, use that with email as well. You will get the same colors and fonts. This makes all communication from your organization look uniform and standardized. If you haven't created a theme yet, don't worry, we'll cover how to do it later in the chapter in the Creating an Office theme for your brand section.

Quick Parts

Minimize effort by reusing what is already there. This is similar to what we covered...