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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

Universal inefficiency

We know the value of time – because time is always in short supply. You want to do more, you have the capability to do more , but still, you cannot, because there is not enough time.

The only thing we can do is utilize whatever time we have efficiently. Sadly, there is a glaring deficiency here that most of us have not noticed yet. Let's start with the two most common places we visit every day: Inbox and Calendar.

What can you do with Inbox? Send an email or reply to an email – two of the most common actions. If you need some help or input from others, you will send an email to them. If others have some work they need you to do, they will send you an email.

Now, think carefully. How many emails do you send versus how many emails do you reply to? 20:80 or 30:70, whatever the proportion is, it is against you, am I right? Do you seem to be spending more time replying to others or helping others instead of helping yourself?

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