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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)
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Section 1: Efficient Content Creation
7
Section 2: Efficient Collaboration
10
Section 3: Integration

Power Apps – apps without programming

Usually, the IT team creates apps. Why should business users need to create apps?

The reason is that the IT team creates apps for big (large-scale) business processes. But what if the app requirement is quite small in terms of the number of people affected? Often, the IT team does not have time/resources to build such apps. But as a business user, you can benefit from automating the process. In that case, you have two choices: wait for IT or build it yourself.

Creating apps without programming

Till recently, building an app meant that you need to know about programming. Now, that is no longer the case. Using Power Apps, anyone can create apps—without programming.

An app has three components, as outlined here:

We have seen three apps for entering and storing data so far: Excel, Lists, and Forms. Why do we need another app to make an app? Good question. Compare the Power Apps column in the table...