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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
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Section 2: Efficient Collaboration
10
Section 3: Integration

Efficient Teams meetings

Meetings are a part of life. Business cannot happen without meetings. We will see how to be effective and efficient in any role – organizer, presenter, or attendee. The principles of efficient teamwork will help us manage meetings effectively, whether you are the organizer, presenter, or attendee.

Go to the relevant section and learn the best practices. Microsoft Teams is commonly used for business meetings, training programs, and even large events. We will not discuss the webinar and live events part of Teams in this book.

Microsoft Teams meetings are different compared to any other apps you may know – such as Zoom, WebEx, Skype, GoToMeeting, and so on. With most meeting apps, when you click the End Meeting button, the meeting ends. Not with Teams. The meetings you have already attended land in Teams chat.

This can be confusing and irritating. In fact, this is the most important feature of Teams meetings, which makes it the tool of choice...