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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

Moving from a vicious to a virtuous cycle

You know how to explore the available features. Here is a recap of how to improve your efficiency using our simple but powerful method.

Vicious cycle:

  • We use Office every day to do various activities.
  • We have limited time, and we want to use that time to grow in our career and business.
  • Each activity we perform using Office is inefficient, which means we are wasting time.
  • Because we are wasting time repeatedly, we have less time available.
  • This means there is no time to learn the right way or more efficient method.
  • Because we are not learning we are not efficient.
  • This is the vicious cycle.

Virtuous cycle:

  • You find an efficient way to do something.
  • That saves you some time.
  • You invest some of that time into finding a more efficient method.
  • That saves you even more time.
  • This is a virtuous cycle.

And that is exactly what we will do in this book. Just keep an open mind, follow the book, and you will see the results for yourself.

Stop Ignoring and Start Exploring

Ignoring leads to ignorance. Exploration leads to excellence.

Before we proceed, let me address the most common questions I receive. You need not read it in detail. Just browse through the topics. Check the details only if they are relevant to you.