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Learn Microsoft Office 2019

By : Linda Foulkes
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Learn Microsoft Office 2019

By: Linda Foulkes

Overview of this book

Learn Microsoft Office 2019 provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook. With the help of illustrated explanations, this Microsoft Office book will take you through the updated Office 2019 applications and guide you through implementing them using practical examples. You'll start by exploring the Word 2019 interface and creating professional Word documents using elements such as citations and cover pages, tracking changes, and performing mail merge. You'll then learn how to create impressive PowerPoint presentations and advance to performing calculations and setting up workbooks in Excel 2019, along with discovering its data analysis features. Later chapters will focus on Access 2019, assisting you in everything from organizing a database to constructing advanced queries. You'll then get up to speed with Outlook, covering how to create and manage tasks, as well as how to handle your mail and contacts effortlessly. Finally, you'll find solutions to commonly encountered issues and best practices for streamlining various workplace tasks. By the end of this book, you'll have learned the essentials of Office business apps and be ready to work with them to boost your productivity.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1: Word
6
Section 2: PowerPoint
10
Section 3: Excel
14
Section 4: Common Tasks
17
Section 5: Access
21
Section 6: Outlook

Introducing the interface and setting options

This topic will highlight the important elements that make up the Excel 2019 visual environment. You will be able to identify parts of the Excel 2019 application as a whole, set view zoom options, and explore the View tab. We will explore the help facility and some Review elements (such as Accessibility, Translate, and Smart Lookup), as well as set customization options.

Microsoft Excel is an example of a spreadsheet program. Other types of spreadsheets are available—for example, Calc from OpenOffice, and Sheets from Google Docs. A spreadsheet is used to perform mathematical calculations and financial decision making—for example, for budgets, company reports, wage sheets, cash flows—to analyze data, and for graphical representation of data. You can process, summarize, sort, extract, analyze, and store information...