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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

Building forms

In this section, you will learn how to create forms using the wizard, become familiar with form views, insert data as a new record using a form, navigate and modify data in form view, create form headers and footers, and use a form's search facility. You will also learn how to add existing fields to a form.

Once you have set up tables on a database and entered the relevant information into a Datasheet View, you will be ready to create other objects on the database. If you don't set up tables, you won't have a foundation to create objects on. Entering data into a table is done in exactly the same way as you would in Excel 2019, which we covered in the Identifying rows, columns, and cells section in Chapter 8, Formatting, Manipulating, and Presenting Data Visually.

A form is used to enter information, just as you would enter records into a table datasheet...