Kickstart Your Year: Essential IT Tips to Enhance Efficiencies

As we kick off the new year, we’ve put together some useful tips on using technology to boost efficiency and save time!

As we kick off the new year, we’ve put together some useful tips on using technology to boost efficiency and save time!

AI Chat

• Copilot: How to use Copilot, Microsoft’s AI Assistant chat
  Copilot chat can help you create images, search content, draft content, or brainstorm ideas.

Collaboration

• Box: Co-authoring in Box
  Box now allows you to collaborate in real-time using the Microsoft desktop applications to avoid multiple versions being saved.
• Box: Upload files by email to shared folders
  Easily send attachments via email to upload to a specific Box folder when you enable the “Allow uploads to this folder via email” option.
• Box: Using File Request to get content from anyone
  Allow users to upload files by creating a page to upload documents into a designated Box folder, without granting them access to view the folder's contents.
• Loop: Collaborate in real-time within Teams chats and Outlook emails
  A collaboration tool that allows real-time editing and sharing of the same content content across various apps like Teams, Outlook, and Word.
• Microsoft Teams: Add Channel Calendar and Channel Events
  Maintain a shared calendar with a Teams channel so members can easily add, view, and join meetings, and add meetings to their personal Outlook calendar.

Meetings

• Teams Meeting: Share slides with PowerPoint Live
  During a Teams meetings, presenters can share and control their slides while engaging with the audience, who can also interact with and personalize their viewing experience with the slides.
• Zoom: How to sync Mednet Calendar to Zoom app
  You can view your entire Outlook calendar events on Zoom regardless if there is a Zoom meeting.
• Zoom: Controlling slides shared by another participant
  A presenter in a Zoom meeting can give slide control to other participants, so they can control the progression of slides when they are presenting.

Organization

• Box: Using Collections to organize your shared and private files
  Create a collection to add shared files and folders and add personal files saved in various areas in Box without moving the file.
• OneNote: Your digital notebook for organizing and syncing notes across devices
  Streamline your workflow by capturing, organizing, and sharing notes seamlessly on computer, web, and mobile.

Presentation

• PowerPoint: How to use Designer and insert images/icons
  Enhance your PowerPoint presentations by inserting stock images and icons provided by Microsoft and easily update layout designs for a more engaging slide.

Scheduling

• Bookings: Create a personal Booking page
  Share your availability to colleagues, vendors, or external collaborators to book time with you in an easy with personal booking page that syncs with Outlook.
• Outlook: How to schedule an email to send later
  Not ready to send that email right now? You can delay the delivery of an individual message by scheduling an email in Outlook Web or New Outlook to send at a specified time, even when not logged in.