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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

Part 3: Learning Excel 2021

Throughout this part, you will be taken on a journey through essential updates and new features of Excel 2021. You will learn all about Advanced Filter and the new FILTER function and explore conditional formatting rules further. We will focus on cleaning data and learning how to import, clean, join, and separate data, learning about some new features along the way, such as the UNIQUE function. You will concentrate on the latest functions, learning the syntax and construction of formulas such as XLOOKUP, LET, and XMATCH, and focusing on IFS.

We will learn how to combine formulas, such as IFERROR and VLOOKUP, explore the term ARRAYS, and look at the new dynamic array functions in Excel 2021. Also included is a topic on database functions and a final topic exploring COUNTIFS. We will explore date functions and look at how to work with time. We will also explore DATEDIF(), YEARFRAC(), EDATE(), WORKDAY(), and many more functions to be more productive in...