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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

Taking notes using OneNote

If you capture notes during meetings, research, or studies, you must explore OneNote. There are hundreds of note-taking applications. Still, trust me, you need OneNote.

Why do you need OneNote?

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are used for creating formal documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. For everything else, use OneNote.

Business users can link notes to meetings. Whether you take notes on your laptop, mobile, or paper, you can still link them to meetings in the calendar. This alone is enough justification to use OneNote.

OneNote is an unlimited supply of electronic diaries. In OneNote, these are called notebooks. If you carry a paper notepad or diary, you can carry only one at a time. The problem is, in a single diary, multiple topics get mixed up. Even if you have a tabbed organizer diary, there is a limit to how many pages you can insert there. Sooner or later, you will need a new organizer.

How to get OneNote

Quite often, you...