Book description
Microsoft Office is the most widely used productivity software in the world, but most people just know the basics. This helpful guide gets you started with the programs in Office 2013, and provides lots of power-user tips and tricks when you’re ready for more. You’ll learn about Office’s new templates and themes, touchscreen features, and other advances, including Excel’s Quick Analysis tool.
The important stuff you need to know:
- Create professional-looking documents. Use Word to craft reports, newsletters, and brochures for the Web and desktop.
- Stay organized. Set up Outlook to track your email, contacts, appointments, and tasks.
- Work faster with Excel. Determine the best way to present your data with the new Quick Analysis tool.
- Make inspiring presentations. Build PowerPoint slideshows with video and audio clips, charts and graphs, and animations.
- Share your Access database. Design a custom database and let other people view it in their web browsers.
- Get to know the whole suite. Use other handy Office tools: Publisher, OneNote, and a full range of Office Web Apps.
- Create and share documents in the cloud. Upload and work with your Office files in Microsoft’s SkyDrive.
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Table of contents
- Office 2013: The Missing Manual
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
- 1. Using Office
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2. Word
- 2. Basic Word Processing
- 3. Editing and Formatting
- 4. Tables, Graphics, and Charts
- 5. Proofing and Research Tools
- 6. Printing Documents
- 7. Reports and Long Documents
- 8. Customizing Documents with Themes, Templates, and Macros
- 9. Desktop and Web Publishing
- 10. Sharing and Collaborating on Documents
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3. Outlook
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11. Getting Started with Outlook
- Setting Up Outlook
- Taking a Quick Look Around
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Composing and Sending Email
- Sending an Email to More than One Recipient
- Proofreading a Message
- Attaching a File to an Email Message
- Inserting a Picture into an Email Message
- Adding a Signature
- Adding a Theme or Stationery
- Setting a Message’s Priority and Confidentiality
- Making Sure They Got the Message
- Setting a Delivery Time
- Directing Replies to Another Address
- Adding Voting Buttons
- Working Offline
- Receiving Email
- Printing a Message
- Fighting Spam
- Saving Time with Quick Steps
- Managing Multiple Email Accounts
- 12. Outlook’s Address Book
- 13. Getting Organized with Folders
- 14. Getting Organized with Outlook’s Calendar, Tasks, and Notes
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11. Getting Started with Outlook
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4. Excel
- 15. Creating Your First Spreadsheet
- 16. Moving Data
- 17. Formatting Cells
- 18. Building Basic Formulas
- 19. Math and Statistical Functions
- 20. Creating Basic Charts
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5. PowerPoint
- 21. Creating a Presentation
- 22. Editing Slides
- 23. Editing a Presentation
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24. Adding Multimedia and Movement
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Putting Media Clips in a Presentation
- Adding Video That’s Stored on Your Computer
- Adding a Video from SkyDrive
- Adding Video from a Website
- Finding and Adding Video via Bing or YouTube
- Adding Sound That’s Stored on Your Computer
- Adding Clip Art Audio
- Recording Audio
- Playing Audio Throughout a Slideshow
- Formatting Video Clips
- Formatting Audio Clips
- Editing Media Clips
- Animating Objects
- Creating Transitions Between Slides
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Putting Media Clips in a Presentation
- 25. It’s Showtime! Giving a Presentation
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6. Access
- 26. Creating Your First Database
- 27. Building Smarter Tables
- 28. Mastering the Datasheet: Sorting, Searching, and Filtering
- 29. Linking Tables with Relationships
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7. Other Office Tools
- 30. Publisher
- 31. OneNote
- 32. SkyDrive and Office Web Apps
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Office 2013: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449357085
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