Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies®
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021952894
ISBN: 978-1-119-83141-9
ISBN 978-1-119-83266-9 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-83265-2 (ebk)
This book is for users of Microsoft Office 2021 who want to get to the heart of Office without wasting time. Don’t look in this book to find out how the different Office 2021 applications work. Look in this book to find out how you can get your work done better and faster with these applications.
I show you everything you need to make the most of each of the Office applications. On the way, you have a laugh or two. No matter how much or how little skill you bring to the table, this book will make you a better, more proficient, more confident user of the Office 2021 applications.
Comprising ten minibooks, this book is your guide to making the most of the Office applications. It’s jam-packed with how-to’s, advice, shortcuts, and tips.
Book 1, “Common Office Tasks,” looks into the many commands and features that are common to all or several of the Office programs. Book 1 explains handling text, the proofing tools, and speed techniques that can make you more productive in most of the Office applications.
Book 2, “Word 2021,” explains the numerous features in Office’s word processor, including how to create documents from letters to reports. Use the techniques described here to construct tables, manage styles, turn Word into a desktop-publishing program, and quickly dispatch office tasks such as mass mailings. You also discover how to get Word’s help in writing indexes, bibliographies, and other items of interest to scholars and report writers.
Book 3, “Excel 2021,” shows the many different ways to crunch the numbers with the bean counter in the Office suite. You find out how to design worksheets that are easy to read and understand, use data-validation rules to cut down on entry mistakes, write meaningful formulas, and analyze your data with PivotTables and the goal-analysis tools. You also find out just how useful Excel can be for financial analyses, data tracking, and forecasting.
Book 4, “PowerPoint 2021,” demonstrates how to construct a meaningful presentation that makes the audience say “Wow!” See how to make a presentation livelier and more original, both when you create your presentation and when you deliver it.
Book 5, “Outlook 2021,” shows you how to send and receive email messages and files, as well maintain an address book and keep a calendar with Outlook. You will also be delighted to discover all the ways to track and manage email — and junk email — in Outlook.
Book 6, “Access 2021,” describes how to create a relational database for storing information, as well as query the database for information and gather the data into meaningful reports. Don’t be frightened by the word database. You will be surprised to discover how useful Access can be in your work.
Book 7, “Publisher 2021,” shows you how to create brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, and other publications with the “print shop in a can.”
Book 8, “Working with Charts and Graphics,” explains how to present information in charts and diagrams, and how to use photos and graphics in your Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets. You also discover how to create lines, shapes, and text boxes to illustrate your ideas.
Book 9, “Office 2021: One Step Beyond,” delves into customizing the Office 2021 applications. It also looks into alternative ways to distribute your work — on a web page, for example.
Book 10, “File Sharing and Collaborating,” explores how to share files with coworkers and collaborate online using OneDrive, the Microsoft service for storing and sharing files.
You are holding in your hands a computer book designed to make learning the Office 2021 applications as easy and comfortable as possible. Besides the fact that this book is easy to read, it’s different from other books about Office:
Please forgive me, but I made one or two foolish assumptions about you, the reader of this book. I assumed that:
I want you to understand all the instructions in this book, and in that spirit, I’ve adopted a few conventions.
Where you see boldface letters or numbers in this book, it means to type the letters or numbers. For example, “Enter 25 in the Percentage text box” means to do exactly that: Enter the number 25.
To give most commands, you can press combinations of keys. For example, pressing Ctrl+S saves the file you’re working on. In other words, you can hold down the Ctrl key and press the S key to save a file. Where you see Ctrl+, Alt+, or Shift+ and a key name or key names, press the keys simultaneously.
On a computer with a touchscreen, you can click a mouse button or tap your finger on the screen to do tasks. In this book, the word click does double duty. Click means to click a mouse button or tap your finger. Either action will suffice. To keep from littering the pages of the book with instructions to “click or tap,” I just use the word click.
To help you get the most out of this book, I’ve placed icons here and there. Here’s what the icons mean:
In addition to the information you find in the book, I have included these online bonuses:
www.dummies.com and search Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies to find the Cheat Sheet for this book. Here you’ll find some extra goodies to make your time with Office 2021 a little more productive.www.dummies.com (search this book’s title to get to the right page).