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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

Investigating new functions

Excel 2021 has a few new functions, namely, XLOOKUP, LET, XMATCH, and a couple of dynamic Array functions. We will discover these in the following topics.

New dynamic array functions

In the previous chapter, we introduced the FILTER and UNIQUE functions. The FILTER function is part of the new dynamic array formulas in Excel 2021. When we apply this function, the results spill from a single cell into the adjacent cells. Normally, when using the traditional filter in Excel, it will not update as new data is entered into the workbook – you would have to recalculate or update the results.

Dynamic arrays are perfect since, when the underlying data (source data) is updated, all lists based on that dataset are updated automatically.

Along with the new FILTER function, we also have a couple of other functions added to the list of dynamic array formulas, namely, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, and RANDARRAY.

Let's recap the FILTER function...