10 Amazing ‘Office 365’ Features For Every Small & Medium Business to Know

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10 Amazing Office 365 Features For Every Small
Medium Business to Know
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Office 365 offers a full range of tools to make
you and your organisation more productive.
Although, you might be used to your old interface
but Office 365s amazing features can
revolutionise the way you work, collaborate with
your team-mates and do business. Office 365 is
a Cloud based environment but it can be installed
on your computer for best experience of MS World.
Installing onto a computer allows you to use
features of Office Online i.e. online-only
version, available free of cost. The best thing
about using Office 365 is that Microsoft
automatically adds new features. You dont need
to pay extra charges other than your
subscription.
Check out this infogaphics by Kirsty McGrath of
OnPoint Solutions.
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The above infographics is a great representation
of all-encompassing features of Office 365 to
manage your resources and improve your
productivity to a big extent. Some of the most
common and useful features are included in this
blog help you quickly understand things that you
can use to your advantage.
Now lets dig deeper
Multiuser Environment for All Documents This is
a new feature launched by Office 365. Office 365
allows you to edit a document at the same time
along with multiple users whether its Word,
PowerPoint or Excel docs. So there is no need to
open any doc in separate tabs. Everyone can just
pile on and work at once.
Use Skype While Working on a Document  You can
Skype with your co-worker while working on a
document simply by clicking on a Chat Button to
begin chatting with your co-workers. It will
allow you to continue your conversation via Skype
on your system or phone even after you leave the
doc. It helps you to have real-time conversations
with your team about making necessary changes in
document.
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Turn Rows of Data into a Map A new feature named
the PowerMap is included in the latest version of
Excel. Using this feature, you can convert rows
of data into images. PowerMap will also offer you
to put your data on 3D map if you have a
geographic data such as a country list or a state
list.
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Reformatting the Data with Excel Formatting
features in Excel have become more powerful with
Office 365 suite. A newer version almost reads
you mind. This is done through a new feature
named Flash Fill. Using this feature, Excel
notes down what a user is doing and copies the
style as you do.
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No need to attach the files, just link them A
business edition of Office 365 allows you to
share your files on Cloud storage and you can
send it to clients just by linking them in your
mail instead of attaching. It will automatically
grant Edit permissions to the people you are
emailing. However, you have all rights to
customise their permissions.
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Allowed two Microsoft Cloud storage accounts on
your Android phone In Office 365, Microsoft
bring in OneDrive app for Android. Using this
app, you can use both corporate Microsoft Cloud
storage account and your personal Microsoft Cloud
Storage Account. You just need to toggle between
accounts.
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Turn Your Notes into Calendar Office 365 allows
the use of Microsofts Note taking tool
i.e. OneNote inside your Outlook account.
Whenever you create a to-do list on OneNote, You
can mark a deadline and reminders on your
calendar. Also, it allows adding meeting details
as well in a calendar like date, location, topic,
agenda and invitees. You can also email this
detail using Email Page Button.
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  Convert scribble to text and Drawings
OneNote has features to identify your
scribbling notes into a meaningful result.
However, if a guess is wrong, you can fix it in
your style with Lasso Tool. To do this, the
device should support electronic ink.
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Include Electric Signature to an Email One of
the best App offered by Outlook is DocuSign. Its
a free electronic signature App. It absolutely
removes the need to print a document, sign it and
then scan or fax it. This App walks you through
electronically signing and emailing a document.
It also helps to take signatures from recipients,
if needed.
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Change Your Mouse Arrow into a Laser
Pointer When giving a presentation on PowerPoint
and in case you dont have a laser pointer, it
allows you to use your PCs mouse as a laser
pointer.
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These seamless features will dramatically improve
collaboration and communication skills within
your organisation. If you have already switched
to Office 365, please share your experience, and
recommendations with ICTechnology in the comment
box below. ICTechnology is a leading IT managed
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