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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 

In this chapter, we learned about the new interface features of Office 2021 and discussed the differences between the online and desktop plans. We explored the immersive reader tools such as Read Aloud and looked at ways to enhance the users' experience when proofreading documents on-screen and renaming documents. The final section concentrated on managing the OneDrive experience in the cloud and on the desktop. We also learned how to troubleshoot sync errors.

The next chapter will focus on more of the new features that Office 2021 offers, as well as the latest revisions that have been made to the Office 365 offering. We will concentrate on dictation, co-authoring, and embedding.

We will also focus on a few more features that are new to Office standalone and web applications. You will learn how to access the new Transform feature so that you can integrate amazing presentations with Microsoft Sway. Then, you will learn how to dictate directly within Word 2021, where we will discuss all the options around the new Dictate feature.

Commenting and working in real time with others is also discussed here. There, we will look at co-authoring and investigate modern commenting, embedding, and converting.