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Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365

You're reading from   Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365 Discover ways to improve your efficiency and save time using M365 applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072267
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Nitin Paranjape Dr. Nitin Paranjape
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Efficient Content Creation
2. Chapter 1: Fortunately, You're Inefficient! FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Components of Work 4. Chapter 3: Creating Content for Effective Communication 5. Chapter 4: Intelligent Data Analysis 6. Chapter 5: Managing Files Efficiently 7. Section 2: Efficient Collaboration
8. Chapter 6: Time and Task Management 9. Chapter 7: Efficient Teamwork and Meetings 10. Section 3: Integration
11. Chapter 8: Automating Work without Programming 12. Chapter 9: Putting It All Together 13. Chapter 10: Maximizing Efficiency across the Organization 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Flowcharts with Visio

Do you create flowcharts and process diagrams by assembling shapes from PowerPoint? If yes, stop doing it. Start using Visio. Since September 2021, a powerful diagramming tool, Visio, is a part of Office and Microsoft 365 commercial licenses (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/06/09/bringing-visio-to-microsoft-365-diagramming-for-everyone).

Go to Office.com and then All Apps. Look for the Visio icon. This is the lite, web version.

Figure 3.28 – Using Visio for flowcharting

Explore the available templates for diagrams, flowcharts, process diagrams, business matrices, Venn diagrams, cycle diagrams, and pyramid diagrams.

Let's create a flowchart to get going with Visio. Choose Basic Flowchart from the templates and click Create. On the left side, you have a collection of shapes (also called stencils). There are 12 collections, which include Basic Shapes, Flowchart Shapes, Cycle Diagram shapes, Matrix...

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