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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

Saving and collaborating presentations

We will now look at the different ways in which we can save PowerPoint 2021 presentations, such as saving the presentation slides as separate images and saving the presentation in Portable Document File (PDF) format.

Saving presentations in different formats

In the following table, we will list the various methods to save presentations, depending on your requirements. These were discussed at length in our previous edition and listed here for reference:

Table 1.1 – Saving presentations in different file formats

When we save documents to the cloud, we are now able to co-author in real-time. This means that no matter where the collaborators are located or accessed (the desktop, iPad, or web version of Office 2021), everyone can see amendments as they occur. Let's learn more about this new feature in the next topic.

Collaborating on presentations

Once a presentation is saved to OneDrive (or SharePoint...