Dr. Nitin Paranjape - Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365: Discover ways to improve your efficiency and save time using M365 applications

Discover ways to improve your efficiency and save time using M365 applications

Dr. Nitin Paranjape

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To Dr. Nandini and Zeus Paranjape, and the billions of people who use Microsoft Office across the globe.

Dr. Nitin Paranjape (Doc) completed his post-graduation in medicine obstetrics and gynecology (he did complete it!) in Mumbai, India. Technology was his hobby. Initially, he developed many medical applications, first on the Sinclair Spectrum and then on PCs. Soon he expanded to corporate IT.

His organization (Mediline) was one of the earliest partners of Microsoft in India. For 15 years, he was considered to be the pioneer of the entire Microsoft platform, cutting across programming tools, databases, infrastructure, and Office. However, he noticed that most of the technologies were largely underutilized due to which people were still inefficient.

Therefore, he changed his focus to the most commonly used (and most underused) tool in the world Microsoft Office. Now, he is known as the Productivity Guru and Dr. Productivity.

He has coached over 400,000 professionals across 3,000+ customers in 18 countries. He even coaches Microsoft's own staff and partners about the effective utilization of the Microsoft 365 platform. Having authored 700+ articles in print and 1,000+ blogs, he is a prolific writer, a sought-after orator, and an accomplished speaker.

He uses a simple, down-to-earth, humorous storytelling style enhanced with live demos to educate and empower his audience. Customers call his sessions a "magic show!".

He is also a PROSCI-certified change management consultant.

Doc's passion is to improve the efficiency of every user of the Office platform.

This book is the distillation of his knowledge and experience gained over 30 years of work.

First of all, I want to thank Raj Chaudhuri, my close friend and a genius technologist, who pushed me to write the book.

I was also privileged to have Vesa Nopanen, Chantal Boss, and Raj Chaudhuri as content reviewers. I thank them for their invaluable input, suggestions, and details, which have enhanced the content significantly.

I also want to thank Shesham Patil, who helped me during the entire process of writing, publishing, and marketing the book. Thanks to Zeus, my son, for being my constant sounding board throughout the writing process.

Special thanks to Valentine Dsouza and Meena Nair, for refining the language and content of the book.

Finally, a big thank you to the professional publishing team at Packt: Adrija Mitra, Keagan Carnerio, Aaron Tanna, Divij Kotian, Anamika Singh, Jyoti Chauhan, Sejal Dsilva, Manthan Patel, Joseph Aloocaran, Pratik Tandel, and Divya Vijayan.

Raj Chaudhuri has been exploring the IT industry, in various roles, for three decades now. He specializes in simplifying technology and mapping it to real human or organizational needs. Although he focuses mainly on open source technology these days, he still maintains a connection to his first love, Microsoft. He is keenly interested in increasing efficiency in all aspects of IT.

Chantal Boss has been sharing her passion for visual communications and technology through her business, CHABOS, since 2004. As a presentation and visual communication leader, TEDx speaker coach, Microsoft Office Apps & Services MVP, and expert trainer on the LinkedIn Learning platform, she helps speakers and small businesses improve their PowerPoint presentation, public speaking, and Microsoft 365 and Teams skills. Her goal is to help clients increase their bottom line by leveraging the power of their Microsoft 365 applications. CHABOS' mission is to help small businesses and end users be more empowered and efficient with communication and collaborative technologies.

Vesa Nopanen is an experienced modern work principal consultant at Sulava Oy. Combining an understanding of business needs with technology expertise and vision enables him to help customers to succeed and grow. Vesa is very passionate about Microsoft Teams because it enables us to work together in a modern and hybrid-working world. He also has expertise and experience with Power Platform, Microsoft Viva, change management, and Office 365.

Vesa is also a blogger, an active member of the Microsoft Teams Community, an organizer at Teams Nation, and the founder of Teams Finland. He is also often a speaker at various community and Microsoft events, such as Microsoft Ignite.