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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

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Fortunately, You're Inefficient!, covers the concept of inefficiency and helps you identify areas of improvement.

Chapter 2, Components of Work, introduces all the apps available under Microsoft 365. It also covers some efficiency boosters that are applicable across multiple apps.

Chapter 3, Creating Content for Effective Communication, shows how to create documents, web pages, emails, flow charts, and presentations efficiently.

Chapter 4, Intelligent Data Analysis, is about data. It covers how to import and clean up data and how to analyze data in Excel and Power BI.

Chapter 5, Managing Files Efficiently, explains why it is important that we keep our files on OneDrive for Business. We explore the benefits as well as security advantages of cloud storage.

Chapter 6, Time and Task Management, highlights how to manage your task list and block time to execute work efficiently. We also cover work delegation and monitoring.

Chapter 7, Efficient Teamwork and Meetings, explains how to enhance teamwork and project management using the Teams platform. The efficient meeting life cycle is also included.

Chapter 8, Automating Work without Programming, covers how to automate workflows using Power Automate and how to create mobile apps using Power Apps.

Chapter 9, Putting It All Together, explains how to use these apps in an integrated manner. Also included is the Needs-to-Solutions library. This is a list of common needs and the most efficient solutions.

Chapter 10, Maximizing Efficiency across the Organization, shows how to expand the efficiency transformation to your entire department or organization.