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Learn Microsoft Office 2021 - Second Edition

By : Linda Foulkes
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Learn Microsoft Office 2021 - Second Edition

By: Linda Foulkes

Overview of this book

This second edition book covers the new and exciting features of Microsoft Office 2021 for desktop and web apps, helping you broaden the skills from the previous edition. Using real-world experiences, this book will guide you through practical examples that set off your thought process to boost productivity. To build new skills in each application, the book ensures that you gain a thorough understanding of new functions, such as PivotTables, Dashboards, and data manipulation methods in Excel. You’ll explore PowerPoint tools such as Presenter Coach, Presenter View, the record tool, and setting reading order to mention a few. You’ll also manipulate slide elements using Auto Fix, draw features, insert video captions, explore playback options, and rehearse presentations using the body language Presenter Coach feature. The book demystifies the Transform feature and shows you how to dictate directly in Word. You’ll even be able to work with Styles by refining the layout and multiple tables of contents. Finally, you’ll focus on making the best use of Outlook enhancements and working remotely using Teams. By the end of this book, you’ll have understood the features of each app inside out and enhanced your existing skills using new techniques to make your professional life more efficient.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Learning Word 2021
6
Part 2: Learning PowerPoint 2021
11
Part 3: Learning Excel 2021
16
Part 4: Outlook 2021 and Useful Communication Tools

Visual impact and useful techniques

In this section, you'll learn about the impact of sound and images, how the brain processes visual input, and how this impacts a presentation. In addition, you will be taught how to use guides, alignments, and grouping before learning how to apply consistent slide styles and color psychology.

Considering the brain

When using a combination of text and visual elements on slides within a presentation, it is good to understand how the brain processes these elements differently.

Learning about visual and verbal passages

There are two passages in which the brain functions in terms of text and visual elements. For text, the verbal passage is used by the brain. It is used when you add any visual elements to slides in a presentation. If you overload the slide with text, then the verbal narrative will become overloaded, causing the audience to lose focus! The visual passage will look for visually pleasing elements and this, of course, helps...