Microsoft 365 Tips and Tricks
Unlock your potential with our essential Microsoft 365 tips and tricks to boost productivity! Microsoft 365 offers powerful tools like Word, Excel, and Outlook as a cloud-based subscription service. Microsoft 365 hacks are a set of key strategies you can leverage with the best Microsoft 365 features to streamline workflow, enhance collaboration, and efficiently manage tasks.
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Here are some of the best Microsoft 365 features and productivity hacks:
- Collaboration Tools: Microsoft Teams collaboration tools for chat, video calls, and file sharing allow the team to stay real-time oriented and work collectively, even remotely.
- OneDrive Integration: This cloud storage lets users access files from any computer. The auto-sync function keeps all your latest documents current; thus, there is no version control issue.
- @Mentions in Outlook: Using @mentions in your emails, you can highlight specific individuals, ensuring they receive notifications and can easily find relevant messages.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Learning keyboard shortcuts for Word, Excel, and other apps can speed up your workflow. For example, Ctrl+C for copy and Ctrl+V for paste are essential.
- Planner for Task Management: With Microsoft Planner, you are given a visual organization of tasks, boards, and projects in ways that would enhance the productivity of your teams.
- Office Lens: This mobile app allows you to scan documents, whiteboards, or business cards and save them directly to OneNote or OneDrive, making it easy to digitize and share information.
- Templates in Word and Excel: There are templates in both Word and Excel that you can get for immediate use - reports, budgets, presentation layouts - saving a little more time and giving you a professional look. These templates can be found either directly in the app or online.
Note: Microsoft provides a library of tips and tricks to help you become familiar with these applications.
Summary
These Microsoft 365 tips and tricks can help boost your daily activity in a major way by increasing productivity and streamlining your workflow. You will also become more efficient and empower collaboration with colleagues by making the most of the best Microsoft 365 features and effective productivity hacks.
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