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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

This chapter built on the previous edition's skills and introduced some of the new features of Office 2021. We focused on ways to manage the styles environment to make amending long documents an easy task and keeping styles intact when working with external collaborators. You now know how to apply more than one ToC to a document and be more creative with shapes, color shades, and stock images.

In the next chapter, we will revisit some of the features that were explained in the previous edition of this book, along with updates that can be applied to the Office 2021 interface, and learn about new features. Here, you will learn how to construct a form using the content controls and generate an online form within Word desktop, as well as online, to collect information from others. We will also recap on headers and footers in a document, revisit tracking and the Compare and Combine tools, and learn how to automate processes when using Word 2021.