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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

You now have theoretical knowledge about formula construction, and should feel confident to perform calculations adhering to certain rules. You are able to construct, edit, and evaluate dynamic arrays as a result of understanding the terms and when to use the function. During the chapter, you have mastered the building of IFS functions and built on the VLOOKUP function by adding the IFERROR and MATCH functions. We explored the new XLOOKUP function, its syntax, and general error returns, and constructed the XMATCH and INDEX functions, too.

We learned about the forgotten database functions and explored working with multiple conditions. Lastly, we recapped the COUNTIF function and worked through examples using COUNTIFS.

In the next chapter, we will explore date functions and look at some more statistical, logical, and mathematical functions, including SWITCH, Subtotals, and SUMIF. In addition, a large part of this chapter will be devoted to PivotTable customization.

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