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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

Creating an Office theme for your brand

Does your business have brand guidelines (brand colors and fonts)? If yes, then you can reinforce your brand by creating documents and emails that follow the brand guidelines.

The solution is to create an Office theme and use it across documents. If you do not have brand guidelines, you can choose from existing Office themes as well. Let's try it out in Word:

  1. Open a document with styles and choose Themes from the Design tab.
  2. Hover the mouse over each theme to see how it looks.
  3. Choose the one you like. The same themes are available across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Figure 3.39 – Selecting a theme

Want to create a theme of your own? No problem. Choose the colors and fonts:

  1. Go to the Design tab, open the Colors dropdown, and choose Customize Colors….
  2. There are 10 colors. Change them to create a custom palette.

Choose your colors and fonts wisely...