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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

Exploring database functions

There are twelve database functions in Excel that cover most of the clusters of functions. These functions have been in the Excel library for many years, and are often forgotten about or not known, as there are so many other functions we can use today.

Database functions are a substitute for IFS functions (explained in a previous topic) and are definitely more powerful in application.

There is one action you need to take prior to constructing a formula using database functions: Make sure that your dataset is formatted as a tabular table. Each column in the dataset needs to have a column header.

Learning database function syntax

The syntax for database functions is really simple and is the same for each type of database function you construct. We will look at a few database functions in this topic, so let's look at the DGET database function as an example. The DGET function returns only one matching record. If it locates more than one match...