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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

Chapter 2: Dictation, Co-authoring, and Embedding

In this chapter, we will focus on a few more features that are new to Office 2021 and the latest versions (and revisions) of the Office 365 offering. You will learn how to access the new Transform feature to integrate amazing presentations with Microsoft Sway. You will also learn how to dictate directly within Word 2021, where we will discuss all the options around the new Dictate feature. Although the first two chapters of this book focus on skills that have been separated for ease of reading, we often use more than a couple together in applications when working on a document.

Commenting and working in real time with others is greatly enhanced in the new version. We will also be investigating co-authoring requirements and learning about modern commenting. Finally, we will introduce several new embedding features.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Investigating the new transform feature
  • Dictating...