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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

Surveys and polls

You can conduct polls, surveys, and quizzes using Microsoft Forms. It is a part of Microsoft 365. You can find it under All apps. This is also data entry. But here, we enter one row at a time. And usually, one person completes just one form, which means one row.

Figure 4.38 – Microsoft Forms

Creating a survey

The process is simple. Like Lists, it is a five-step process.

Figure 4.39 – Conducting polls using Forms

Surveys

A survey is an online form. You can complete it on any browser, including on cell phones. There is no special app for it. Creation, data entry, and analysis – they all happen on a browser.

Create a survey and specify the title, description, base image, and theme. Use the Preview option while you are designing the form. Preview on mobile as well as desktop. Forms adjust automatically to any screen size.

Settings

Before adding questions, go to Settings and choose...