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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

Filtering using Advanced Filter

In the previous edition of this book, we learned how to set up and manage sorts and filters.

Filtering data in Excel allows you to locate data very quickly, as well as eliminating certain choices (text, dates, or values) from a list's results, or specifying categories of data to get the result you need. Filters can also be used to search if you specify the format (color) of a cell.

Instead of filtering a list with updates that are occurring in the same location, we can extract data to a different location using criteria.

Now, let's learn how to filter using Advanced Filter.

Defining criteria

  1. Open the SSGAdvFilter.xlsx workbook. Our workbook contains data for a theme park.
  2. To define the criteria for our filter, we need to specify a separate area on the worksheet. When we add criteria, we can indicate whether the result will be an AND or an OR criteria. For example, we can choose all the Mankay Falls employees (from...