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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

Summary

You now have the skills to work with Math & Trig and Statistical functions using Excel 2021. You have built on prior knowledge by learning valuable functions, such as being able to generate random numbers using RANDBETWEEN and RAND functions. In addition, you went through examples of working with PRODUCT functions and explored the SUMPRODUCT, MROUND, FLOOR, TRUNC, AGGREGATE, and CONVERT functions.

We also investigated the MEDIAN, COUNTBLANK, and AVERAGEIFS statistical functions in this chapter, from which you can experiment and apply to existing or new scenarios when working with workbook data.

This next chapter will take you through Outlook 2021 enhancements, where we will explore and configure objects such as mail, contacts, tasks, notes, and journals. You will set some advanced and language options in the interface and learn how to manipulate item tags and arrange the content pane.

In addition, we will apply some search and filter tools, and print Outlook...