Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365

A practical guide that helps you work with Microsoft 365 apps like Office, Teams, Excel, and Power BI to automate tasks and manage projects effectively

Key Features

• Learn how to save time while using M365 apps from Microsoft productivity expert Dr. Nitin Paranjape
• Work more intelligently when using over twenty M365 apps to transform your efficiency
• Use Microsoft 365 tools to automate repetitive tasks without coding

Book Description

Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365 covers the entire range of 20+ desktop and mobile applications on the Microsoft 365 platform. This book will provide simple, immediately usable, and authoritative guidance that will help you save at least 30 minutes every day, advance in your career, and achieve business growth.

The book starts by covering components and tasks such as creating files and then storing them somewhere, as well as data management and data analysis. You will understand 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 efficiently, where you will explore effective email communication, meeting management, and open collaboration across your organization. This book enables you to automate many repetitive tasks quickly and easily, even if you're not a programmer. The way you import, clean, and analyze data will be significantly improved.

By the end of this Microsoft 365 book, you will have gained the skills you need to improve efficiency with expert tips and techniques for using M365 apps.

What you will learn

• Use different MS 365 tools such as Office desktop, Teams, Power BI, Lists, and OneDrive to increase work efficiency
• Identify time-consuming processes and understand how to make them more efficient
• Create professional documents quickly with minimal effort
• Work across multiple teams, meetings, and projects without email overload
• Automate mundane, repetitive, and time-consuming manual work
• Manage work, delegation, execution, and project management

Who This Book Is For

This book is for anyone who uses Microsoft 365, including MS Office 365 on a regular basis. You do not require any specialized knowledge to get started.

Table of Contents

1. Inefficiency as an Opportunity
2. Features to Benefits - The Journey
3. Components of Work
4. Creating Files Efficiently
5. Storing Files Efficiently
6. Managing Time and Tasks
7. Efficient Collaboration and Teamwork
8. Effective Data Cleaning and Analytics
9. Automating Work without Talking to IT
10. Putting it All Together
11. Efficiency across the Organization